How search and AI bots actually work
Every bot below behaves a little differently. Understanding the mechanics is the difference between getting indexed and quietly disappearing.
They fetch raw HTML — fast
Most bots make a single HTTP request and read what comes back. They don't wait for your JavaScript to render. If your content isn't in the initial HTML, it doesn't exist to them.
They have a crawl budget
Bots only spend so much time on each site. Slow responses, JS-rendered pages, and dead links burn that budget — meaning fewer of your pages get indexed.
They identify themselves
Every bot sends a User-Agent string like 'GPTBot/1.0' or 'Googlebot/2.1'. RenderBeam matches that string to serve them a clean, rendered page — and shows you exactly who hit you.
What's available on each plan
Trial unlocks 24 top crawlers. Every paid plan unlocks all 84.
The Trial preset focuses on the bots most sites actually need (Google, Bing, OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). Upgrade any time to unlock the full library — same flat price, no per-bot fees.
Search engines
Classic crawlers that build the indexes powering Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and regional search.
360 Search
Search engines crawler.
Apple
Search engines crawler.
Baidu
Search engines crawler.
Bing
Search engines crawler.
DuckDuckGo
Search engines crawler.
Ecosia
Search engines crawler.
Search engines crawler.
Mojeek
Search engines crawler.
Naver
Search engines crawler.
Petal (Huawei)
Search engines crawler.
Qwant
Search engines crawler.
Seznam
Search engines crawler.
Shenma
Search engines crawler.
Sogou
Search engines crawler.
Yahoo
Search engines crawler.
Yandex
Search engines crawler.
AI crawlers
Bots that feed answers in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Gemini, and other AI assistants.
Amazonbot
AI crawlers crawler.
Andi
Andi AI search crawler
Anthropic
AI crawlers crawler.
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence training opt-out token
Brave Search
Brave Search crawler
Bytespider
ByteDance AI training crawler
Cohere
Cohere AI training crawler
CommonCrawl
AI crawlers crawler.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek AI crawler
Diffbot
Diffbot knowledge graph + AI crawler
DuckAssistBot
AI crawlers crawler.
Google Extended
AI crawlers crawler.
Google Vertex
Google Cloud Vertex AI agent
Grok (xAI)
xAI Grok crawler
ImageSift
ImageSift AI image crawler
Kagi
Kagi search/AI crawler
Meta AI
Meta AI on-demand fetcher (separate from Facebook link preview)
Mistral
AI crawlers crawler.
OpenAI
AI crawlers crawler.
Perplexity
AI crawlers crawler.
PetalBot AI
Huawei Aspiegel AI crawler
Phind
Phind AI search crawler
Timpi
Timpi decentralized search crawler
You.com
AI crawlers crawler.
Social previews
Bots that generate the link cards you see in Slack, Discord, Twitter, LinkedIn, and messengers.
Bitly
Bitly URL shortener preview
Discord
Social previews crawler.
Embedly
Embedly link preview service
Social previews crawler.
Flipboard content aggregator
Social previews crawler.
Social previews crawler.
Nuzzel
Nuzzel news aggregator
Outbrain
Outbrain content recommendation
Social previews crawler.
Quora
Quora link preview bot
Social previews crawler.
Skype
Social previews crawler.
Slack
Social previews crawler.
Telegram
Social previews crawler.
TikTok
Social previews crawler.
Tumblr
Tumblr blog platform crawler
Twitter/X
Social previews crawler.
VK/VKontakte
VK social network share bot
Social previews crawler.
XING professional network bot
SEO tools
Crawlers from SEO suites like Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Screaming Frog — useful for audits.
Ahrefs
SEO tools crawler.
Botify
SEO tools crawler.
Chrome Lighthouse
SEO tools crawler.
Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights crawler
Google PSI/Inspection
SEO tools crawler.
Lumar (Deepcrawl)
SEO tools crawler.
Majestic
SEO tools crawler.
Moz DotBot
SEO tools crawler.
Moz Rogerbot
SEO tools crawler.
OnCrawl
SEO tools crawler.
OpenLinkProfiler
SEO tools crawler.
ScreamingFrog
SEO tools crawler.
SEMrush
SEO tools crawler.
Seobility
SEO tools crawler.
Serpstat
SEO tools crawler.
Sitebulb
SEO tools crawler.
Ubersuggest
SEO tools crawler.
W3C Validator
W3C HTML/CSS validation service
Archives & misc
Long-term web archives and a few legacy or special-purpose fetchers.
Bitrix
Bitrix24 link preview service
Google Snippet
Google+ snippet fetcher (legacy)
Integration Test
Testing/development bot identifier
Internet Archive / Alexa
Archives & misc crawler.
ShowYouBot
ShowYou video discovery bot