OAI-AdsBot

OpenAI documents OAI-AdsBot as the crawler used “to validate the safety of web pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT. When you submit an ad, OpenAI may visit the landing page to ensure it complies with our policies.” OpenAI’s documentation states the data it collects “is not used to train generative AI foundation models.”

Why this is different from GPTBot

OAI-AdsBot only visits pages that have been submitted as ChatGPT ads, for compliance and relevance checks — it is unrelated to GPTBot’s training-data collection or OAI-SearchBot’s search indexing.

Published IP ranges

OpenAI publishes OAI-AdsBot’s IP ranges at https://openai.com/adsbot.json, which is the documented way to recognise its requests.

Site-owner controls

OpenAI’s bots page does not say whether OAI-AdsBot honours robots.txt — its robots.txt guidance names only OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot (wording checked 2026-09-19). Because the crawler “only visits pages submitted as ads,” the practical control is whether an ad is submitted for that landing page, not a robots.txt rule; treat a Disallow for this token as a declared preference of unconfirmed effect. See /limitations for what a robots.txt rule can and cannot guarantee.

Example robots.txt configuration

To disallow OAI-AdsBot specifically, without affecting any other crawler:

User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Disallow: /

If no dedicated User-agent: OAI-AdsBot group exists in a domain'srobots.txt, this crawler falls back to whatever the wildcard User-agent: * group says (RFC 9309) — see robots.txt syntax basics for how group selection works. A robots.txt rule is a published instruction; it does not technically prevent access.

Official source

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots

Verified against the source above as of 24 July 2026 — see how CrawlPact verifies crawler information.