Agent Ready Crawlers

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Search index crawler from Exa

ExaSearchBot

In short

ExaSearchBot is Exa's search index crawler. The token to write in robots.txt is ExaSearchBot. The operator publishes nothing a site can check. The crawl of 2026-11-04 did not measure ExaSearchBot. ExaSearchBot has no operator bot documentation, checked 2026-11-04. Builds the index behind Exa's AI search API; Verisoul reports it signs requests.

Operator
Exa Vendor profile: Exa
Purpose
Search index All search index rows. Builds a search index that sends visitors back. Refusing it removes pages from that product.
User-agent string
No exact string is published. What the operator or a third party says: Contains "ExaSearchBot"
robots.txt token
ExaSearchBot 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) found on the pages read. Source, 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, read 2026-11-04.

IP ranges
Not published.
Rate behaviour
Not published.
Block rate

Not measured: the crawl checked 31 AI and search tokens, and ExaSearchBot is not one of them.

Documentation
Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04). Closest page read.

Note. Builds the index behind Exa's AI search API; Verisoul reports it signs requests.

Allow and refuse lines

To allow ExaSearchBot

User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Allow: /

To refuse ExaSearchBot

User-agent: ExaSearchBot
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.

Exa in the Verification Ledger

Publishes nothing we could read. All operators.

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

Last reviewed 2026-11-04