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SofyaBot (Sofya): what it is and how to allow or block it

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SofyaBot is Crawler for Sofya's independent search index. Its robots.txt token is SofyaBot.

Facts

Operator
Sofya
Category
Search engine crawler
robots.txt token
SofyaBot
Honors robots.txt?
Yes, per Sofya. Sofya says rules for SofyaBot take precedence over the general group, and that it supports Crawl-delay.
User-agent example
SofyaBot/1.0 (+https://sofya.co/bot)
User agent we logged
SofyaBot/1.0 (+https://sofya.co/bot)Most common variant in our own logs, 26 requests, 19 to 25 Oct 2026. Static snapshot, not the live counter below. A logged string is a claim: anyone can send it.
Official source
Sofya: SofyaBot
Published IP ranges
https://sofya.co/bot/ips.json
Compared with the source

What it is used for

Per Sofya, it crawls the web itself instead of reselling another search engine's results.

A traditional search engine crawler. AI features of the same company often draw on its index.

What happens if you block it

Your pages are left out of Sofya's independent search index, so they cannot appear in Sofya search results.

Sofya is a small operator. It documents forward-confirmed reverse DNS on crawl-N.sofya.co hostnames and lists a contact address on its page.

Is it really SofyaBot?

Anyone can send SofyaBot as a user agent, so a log line proves nothing by itself. The way to tell is the requesting IP address.

How to allow or block SofyaBot

Add one of these groups to the robots.txt at the root of your domain. A group that names the bot overrides a general User-agent: * group.

Allow SofyaBot
User-agent: SofyaBot
Allow: /
Block SofyaBot
User-agent: SofyaBot
Disallow: /

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What we see on our own sites

Live counter, last 30 days: no request identifying as SofyaBot recorded yet. The counter started after the week below, so it does not cover it. Earlier log snapshot (19 to 25 Oct 2026): 26 requests identified as SofyaBot.

Counts come from the websites we operate; they hold no IP addresses or URLs, and a user agent is only a claim. See the bot traffic data and the methodology.

Questions about SofyaBot

What is SofyaBot?

Crawler for Sofya's independent search index. Per Sofya, it crawls the web itself instead of reselling another search engine's results.

Is SofyaBot safe and legitimate?

The real SofyaBot is a search engine crawler run by Sofya. A user-agent string is only a claim, though, so anyone can send it. Compare the requesting IP address with the published IP ranges. Sofya documents forward-confirmed reverse DNS on hostnames of the form crawl-N.sofya.co.

Does SofyaBot obey robots.txt?

Yes, per Sofya. Sofya says rules for SofyaBot take precedence over the general group, and that it supports Crawl-delay.

How do I block SofyaBot?

Add a group to the robots.txt at the root of your domain: User-agent: SofyaBot followed by Disallow: /. A group that names the bot overrides a general User-agent: * group.

Will blocking SofyaBot hurt my Google rankings or AI visibility?

For that search engine, yes: this is the crawler behind its index, and AI features of the same company often draw on that index. Your pages are left out of Sofya's independent search index, so they cannot appear in Sofya search results.

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