--- title: "Hive: crawler operator profile | Agent Ready Crawlers" description: "Hive: crawler operator profile covering ImageSift reverse image search and Deploy inference platform. Standards, dated prices and limits, read 2026-11-05." canonical: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/hive-imagesift site: "Agent Ready Crawlers" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Hive: crawler operator profile | Agent Ready Crawlers > Hive: crawler operator profile covering ImageSift reverse image search and Deploy inference platform. Standards, dated prices and limits, read 2026-11-05. Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/hive-imagesift Site: Agent Ready Crawlers Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Crawler operator # Hive In short Hive changed its name to Deploy on 26 October 2026 and now sells hosted AI models. Its ImageSift unit crawls public images for a reverse image search index, keeping each picture's alt text along with the surrounding text, and accepts opt-outs by email only; no IP list or signature keys exist to confirm a visit. Type [Crawler operator](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/crawler-operator/) Homepage [deploy.com](https://deploy.com) In one line AI model company, renamed from Hive to Deploy in October 2026, whose ImageSift unit runs ImagesiftBot to collect public images and page text for a reverse image search index. Last read 2026-11-05 ## What Hive does for this layer ### From the vendor's own pages ImageSift's about page says ImageSiftBot scrapes the internet for publicly available images to support Hive's web intelligence products and sends the user agent "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ImagesiftBot; +imagesift.com)". ([imagesift.com](https://imagesift.com/about)) ImageSift respects robots.txt groups addressed to ImagesiftBot, and where no group names ImagesiftBot but one names Googlebot, ImagesiftBot follows the Googlebot rules instead of the \* group. ([imagesift.com](https://imagesift.com/about)) ImagesiftBot reads Crawl-delay as the minimum seconds between the starts of consecutive requests, splitting each day into intervals of that length and sending at most one request per interval. ([imagesift.com](https://imagesift.com/about)) Along with each image, ImageSiftBot saves the host URL, the text on the page and the image's alt text, which go into an index used for similar-image search. ([imagesift.com](https://imagesift.com/about)) ImageSift's page offers opt-out by email to ImageSift support and names no form, IP list or verification method. ([imagesift.com](https://imagesift.com/about)) imagesift.com itself serves a reverse image search box that takes an uploaded file or an image URL. ([imagesift.com](https://imagesift.com/)) Hive announced on 2026-10-26 that it is now called Deploy and is broadening into an enterprise AI inference platform serving open-source and proprietary models. ([thehive.ai](https://thehive.ai/blog/hive-is-now-deploy), dated 2026-10-26) Deploy's pricing page offers pay-as-you-go billing for developers and custom Enterprise pricing, with hosted models such as DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at USD 0.10 per million input tokens. ([deploy.com](https://deploy.com/pricing)) ### Claims the vendor makes about itself Hive's rename post says its proprietary portfolio has over 20 models, which grew from content moderation into detecting IP-protected and AI-generated content. ([thehive.ai](https://thehive.ai/blog/hive-is-now-deploy), dated 2026-10-26) Hive says hundreds of organisations send billions of pieces of content a day through its APIs and that it operates its own datacenter infrastructure. ([thehive.ai](https://thehive.ai/blog/hive-is-now-deploy), dated 2026-10-26) ### What our crawl saw A GET for imagesift.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory on 2026-11-05 returned HTTP 200 with an HTML page shell, not a key directory, so ImagesiftBot has no Web Bot Auth keys at that host. ([imagesift.com](https://imagesift.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory)) ## Products and plans | Product | What it does | Price model | From | As of | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ImageSift reverse image search | Search for similar images across the index ImagesiftBot builds. | No price recorded | | Deploy inference platform | Hosted open-source and proprietary models, including Hive's moderation and AI-content detection models. | usage-based Per million input tokens for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017; Enterprise is custom. | USD 0.10 | 2026-11-05 | ## Standards | Standard | Status | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | | RFC 9309 (robots.txt) | Supports | Directives addressed to ImagesiftBot are respected, Crawl-delay included; Googlebot rules apply when ImagesiftBot is not named. (imagesift.com) | | Web Bot Auth | No statement | No key directory at imagesift.com (2026-11-05). | | Published IP list | No statement | No IP list on the ImageSift page (2026-11-05). | ## Our checks | Check | Result | Method | Date | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Homepage fetch | HTTP 200 | GET with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check | 2026-11-05 | | Web Bot Auth key directory | HTTP 200, text/html page shell, no keys | GET https://imagesift.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check | 2026-11-05 | ## What Hive does not do - ImageSift publishes no IP list or signature keys, so ImagesiftBot can be identified only by its user agent string (checked 2026-11-05). - ImageSift's page does not say whether images it collects are used to train Hive's or Deploy's models. ## Reading notes A site that allows Googlebot and blocks everything else through the \* group still admits [ImagesiftBot](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/imagesiftbot/), because ImageSift applies its Googlebot rule when no group names its bot. ## Related pages on this site - [All crawler operators](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/by-type/crawler-operator/) 31 profiles - [The full vendor list](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/) 73 profiles in four types - [ImagesiftBot](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/imagesiftbot/) token ImagesiftBot ## Sources - [deploy.com](https://deploy.com) read 2026-11-05 - [Imagesift by Hive (ImageSift Bot)](https://imagesift.com/about) read 2026-11-05 - [Imagesift by Hive](https://imagesift.com/) read 2026-11-05 - [Hive is now Deploy](https://thehive.ai/blog/hive-is-now-deploy) read 2026-11-05 - [Pricing | Deploy](https://deploy.com/pricing) read 2026-11-05 - [ImageSift key directory probe](https://imagesift.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory) read 2026-11-05 Last reviewed 2026-11-05