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# OAI-AdsBot

> OAI-AdsBot is an other bot run by OpenAI. It visits landing pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT to check them against OpenAI ad policies and to judge when an ad is relevant. OpenAI says it only visits pages submitted as ads and its data is not used to train foundation models.

- Operator: OpenAI
- Kind: Other bot
- robots.txt token: none documented
- Source: https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/oai-adsbot

## What is OAI-AdsBot?

It visits landing pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT to check them against OpenAI ad policies and to judge when an ad is relevant. OpenAI says it only visits pages submitted as ads and its data is not used to train foundation models.

A bot that fits none of the groups above, such as an ad review crawler.

OpenAI's page does not say whether OAI-AdsBot reads robots.txt.

- [OpenAI’s documentation](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots)

## OAI-AdsBot user agent

OpenAI documents this user agent for OAI-AdsBot. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.

```
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot
```

## Should you block OAI-AdsBot?

It depends on what it does; read the operator’s page below.

## How to block OAI-AdsBot in robots.txt

OpenAI documents no robots.txt token for OAI-AdsBot that we could confirm, so we don’t suggest one here. Block it at your server or firewall by user agent instead.

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## How to verify a request is really OAI-AdsBot

Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.

OpenAI publishes the IP ranges OAI-AdsBot crawls from. A request that claims to be OAI-AdsBot from any other address is not OAI-AdsBot.

- [OAI-AdsBot IP ranges](https://openai.com/adsbot.json)

## See when OAI-AdsBot reads your site

Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is OAI-AdsBot?

OAI-AdsBot is an other bot run by OpenAI. It visits landing pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT to check them against OpenAI ad policies and to judge when an ad is relevant. OpenAI says it only visits pages submitted as ads and its data is not used to train foundation models.

### Is OAI-AdsBot safe to block?

It depends on what it does; read the operator’s page below.

### How do I block OAI-AdsBot?

OpenAI documents no robots.txt token for it that we could confirm, so block it at your server or firewall by its user agent.