GPTBot

OpenAI documents GPTBot as a crawler that fetches public pages for model-related use. It is not the fetcher that answers a live chat, and it is not a person clicking a citation.

Operator: OpenAI
Motif family: openai
Motif class: Model-related crawler
In Motif classifier: Yes
robots.txt: Vendor documents that it honors robots.txt
Executes JavaScript: No
Verified in Motif: Published IP list. Motif does not check source IPs

What Motif will and will not claim

Motif classifies the token GPTBot as family openai, class model, when that User-Agent hits /m.js or the collector. Most GPTBot fetches are HTML-only and never reach Motif. Motif does not treat a User-Agent string as IP-verified identity.

Revenue

A GPTBot hit is not a visitor and cannot win a recommendation. Paying customers from OpenAI's chat product arrive as people with a chatgpt.com or chat.openai.com referrer.

Vendor documentation

Start with the vendor page at https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots. IP ranges, when published, are at https://openai.com/gptbot.json. Motif stores the controlled token, not a proof that the remote IP sat in that list.

GPTBot User-Agent example

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot

Allow GPTBot in robots.txt

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

Block GPTBot in robots.txt

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Does GPTBot count as a visit in Motif?

No. If GPTBot hits the Motif tracker or collector it increments AI crawlers. It does not create a visitor and cannot win a recommendation.

Will Motif show GPTBot on my HTML pages?

Only if that client requested /m.js or POST /v1/events. HTML-only crawls of the origin never reach Motif. Saying otherwise would be a product lie.

Should I block GPTBot?

Model-related crawlers are a data-policy call. Allowing or blocking them does not create Stripe customers. Motif will not pretend a crawler hit is demand.