GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot: What's the Difference?
Replaced in November 2026: this answer now sits in a longer, current page on the same question. Linked here.
By Andrej Ruckij · · 1 min read
GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot: What’s the Difference?
This article has been replaced. This page covered two of OpenAI’s bots. Our page on OpenAI’s crawlers covers all four, with the robots.txt rules each one follows as of October 2026. One correction since this page was written: OpenAI now says robots.txt rules may not apply to ChatGPT-User.
Read the current version: OpenAI’s crawlers: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User (and OAI-AdsBot)