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Can AI crawlers actually reach your content?

robots.txt is only one piece of the puzzle. The AI Access Checker runs a full access path test — checking every layer that could silently block AI bots from indexing your content.

robots.txt is only one of five access barriers
JavaScript-rendered content is invisible to most AI crawlers
CDN bot protection can block legitimate AI indexers
noindex meta tags stop AI crawlers even when robots.txt allows them

AI Access Checker

Beta · Free

The full access path test is available in the Mentd. platform. It checks all five access layers and provides a per-crawler status for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.

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Five layers of AI crawler access

Most AI crawler audits only check robots.txt. That misses four other common access blockers.

01

robots.txt rules

Per-bot allow/disallow rules across all AI crawler user agents

02

HTTP response

Status codes, redirects, and headers that affect AI crawler behavior

03

Rendering requirements

Whether the page requires JavaScript to render content visible to bots

04

Meta tag directives

noindex, nofollow, and AI-specific meta tags blocking indexing

05

CDN / bot protection

Cloudflare and CDN settings that may classify AI crawlers as threats

Common questions

Why can't AI bots access my content even though robots.txt allows them?

Several issues can block AI crawlers beyond robots.txt: JavaScript-rendered content that bots can't process, noindex meta tags, CDN bot protection blocking crawlers, rate limiting, and server errors. The AI Access Checker tests all of these.

Does Cloudflare block AI crawlers?

Cloudflare's bot protection can flag AI crawlers as threats depending on your security level settings. GPTBot and other AI crawlers may be blocked by Cloudflare's managed bot rules unless you explicitly allow them.

What's the difference between the AI Access Checker and the robots.txt Checker?

The robots.txt Checker validates your robots.txt configuration. The AI Access Checker tests the full access path - including HTTP response, rendering, meta tags, and CDN protection - for any specific URL.

What's 'AI crawler verified access' vs estimated access?

Verified access means the crawler has been confirmed to successfully retrieve and index the page. Estimated access is inferred from the access path analysis. The full Mentd. platform shows actual bot activity from server log analysis.

See which AI bots actually crawled your site.

Server log analysis shows verified AI bot activity — not just estimated access.