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# ExaSearchBot: user agent, token, block rate | Agent Ready Crawlers

> ExaSearchBot from Exa: robots.txt token ExaSearchBot, search index purpose and what a site can check; no exact user-agent string is published.

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

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](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/exa/)

Purpose

Search index [All search index rows](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/purpose/search-index/). 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](https://www.verisoul.ai/agents/exasearchbot), 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://www.verisoul.ai/agents/exasearchbot), 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](https://www.verisoul.ai/agents/exasearchbot).

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](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

-   [verisoul.ai: exasearchbot](https://www.verisoul.ai/agents/exasearchbot) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04