Bot management vendor
Centinel Analytica
In short
Centinel Analytica runs its check at the site's own edge, on whichever CDN, server or WordPress setup the customer already has, before the page is served. It claims that most requests calling themselves GPTBot are impostors, and checks them against OpenAI's published ranges. Prices are quoted per deployment, and a free audit looks only at scraping exposure.
- Type
- Bot management
- Homepage
- centinelanalytica.com
- In one line
- Bot and AI crawler protection vendor whose edge integration verifies declared search and AI crawlers against operators' published IP ranges and detects scrapers that run real browsers behind residential proxies.
- Last read
- 2026-11-05
What Centinel Analytica does for this layer
From the vendor's own pages
Centinel's GPTBot page tells site owners to verify GPTBot by checking that the source IP falls in the ranges OpenAI publishes at openai.com/gptbot.json, and shows 2026-09-30 as the last verified date. (centinelanalytica.com) Centinel integrates through AWS CloudFront, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Fastly VCL, NGINX or OpenResty, and WordPress. (centinelanalytica.com) In Centinel's design the site's edge asks Centinel to analyse each request before serving the page, then applies the policy decision Centinel returns. (centinelanalytica.com)
Claims the vendor makes about itself
Centinel reports that for the median organisation 94% of requests claiming to be GPTBot failed verification, measured between 14 Jul and 10 Oct 2026. (centinelanalytica.com, dated 2026-10-10) Centinel's homepage says that on a typical news site 84% of requests claiming to be GPTBot were fake, as were 14% of those claiming to be Googlebot. (centinelanalytica.com) Centinel claims it detected 8 of 8 automation tools in its September 2026 benchmark, against at most 5 for six other vendors. (centinelanalytica.com)
Products and plans
| Product | What it does | Price model | From | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centinel bot management | Crawler verification, scripted-client and browser-automation detection, and per-crawler policy at the edge. | quoted per deployment | Not published | 2026-11-05 |
| Bot directory and AI crawler list | Public pages per crawler with user agent, verification method and failed-verification rates. | |||
Standards
| Standard | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Web Bot Auth | No statement | Centinel pages read 2026-11-05 name no Web Bot Auth signature check. |
| Published IP list | Supports | Centinel verifies GPTBot against OpenAI's published IP ranges. (centinelanalytica.com) |
Our checks
| Check | Result | Method | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage fetch | HTTP 200 | GET with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check | 2026-11-05 |
What Centinel Analytica does not do
- Centinel's free site audit checks scraping exposure only, not account takeover or API abuse.
- Centinel's pages read name no Web Bot Auth signature verification (read 2026-11-05).
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Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-05