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# cohere-ai: user agent, token, block rate | Agent Ready Crawlers

> cohere-ai from Cohere: robots.txt token cohere-ai, other purpose and what a site can check; no exact user-agent string is published. Read 2026-11-04.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/cohere-ai
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

Bot from Cohere

# cohere-ai

In short

cohere-ai is Cohere's bot, filed under Other. The token to write in robots.txt is cohere-ai. The operator publishes nothing a site can check. 15.5 percent of 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt disallow it at the root (crawl of 2026-11-04). Token appears in many robots.txt files; Cohere's docs URL for a crawler page returned 404 on 2026-11-04.

Operator

Cohere Vendor profile: [Cohere](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/cohere/)

Purpose

Other [All other rows](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/purpose/other/). Link previews, ad checks, dataset crawls, SEO tools and legacy tokens that fit none of the five purposes.

User-agent string

No exact string is published. What the operator or a third party says: Not published

robots.txt token

`cohere-ai` Matched case-insensitively (RFC 9309). The token and the user-agent string are different things.

Respects robots.txt

No documentation

operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04). [Source](https://technologychecker.io/blog/ai-crawler-list), read 2026-11-04.

Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04).

Verification

Nothing published

The operator publishes no list, reverse DNS pattern or key directory a site owner can check. [Documentation](https://technologychecker.io/blog/ai-crawler-list), read 2026-11-04.

IP ranges

Not published.

Rate behaviour

Not published.

Block rate

**15.5%** of 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt disallow `cohere-ai` at the root (919 sites). 11.6% name it; 3.8% refuse it only through a \* group. Rank 11 of 31 tokens measured.

Across all 8,624 parsed robots.txt files in the crawl: 11.7% (8.9% named). Crawl of 2026-11-04; [report](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/block-rates/).

Documentation

Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04). [Closest page read](https://technologychecker.io/blog/ai-crawler-list).

Note. Token appears in many robots.txt files; Cohere's docs URL for a crawler page returned 404 on 2026-11-04.

## Allow and refuse lines

### To allow cohere-ai

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

### To refuse cohere-ai

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

Refusing or allowing in robots.txt states a preference. Enforcement of a refusal belongs in your WAF; see how to verify the identity above.

## Cohere in the Verification Ledger

Publishes nothing. [All operators](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/verification/).

IP lists

publishes nothing

Reverse DNS

publishes nothing

Key directory

publishes nothing

Cloudflare

not checked

Visa TAP registry

no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)

Mastercard Agent Pay

no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)

## Sources

-   [technologychecker.io: ai crawler list](https://technologychecker.io/blog/ai-crawler-list) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04