What is cohere-ai?
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cohere-ai is Cohere's crawler. It collects content that may be used to train AI models. Collects content for Cohere model training.
What it does
cohere-ai collects page content to be used in model training. Collects content for Cohere model training.
It does not execute JavaScript. Whatever your server returns in the initial HTML response is the entire page as far as cohere-ai is concerned — if your content is rendered client-side, this crawler reads an empty container.
Should you block cohere-ai?
It is a licensing decision, not a visibility one. cohere-ai collects content that may be used to train AI models; blocking it does not remove you from Google Search or from AI answer engines.
Your content is excluded from Cohere's training data collection. Cohere sells models to enterprises rather than running a consumer answer engine, so there is no citation surface at stake.
To allow it
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /To block it
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /Put the rule in your robots.txt at the site root. A group that names cohere-ai explicitly takes precedence over your User-agent: * group, so naming it is how you make your intent survive later edits to the wildcard rules.
Verifying a real cohere-ai request
Cohere's crawler is comparatively low-volume. If you are seeing high request rates under this name, treat the user agent as unverified and check the source addresses.
The mistake people make
Leaving it out of a robots.txt that otherwise names every AI crawler. If your position on training data is a policy, it should be stated consistently, including for the vendors with no consumer product.
Frequently asked questions
- What is cohere-ai?
- cohere-ai is Cohere's crawler. It collects content that may be used to train AI models. Collects content for Cohere model training.
- Should I block cohere-ai?
- It is a licensing decision, not a visibility one. cohere-ai collects content that may be used to train AI models; blocking it does not remove you from Google Search or from AI answer engines.
- How do I block cohere-ai in robots.txt?
- Add a group to the robots.txt at your site root: "User-agent: cohere-ai" followed by "Disallow: /". Use "Allow: /" instead to allow it explicitly.
Further reading
- The Complete Guide to robots.txt for AI Crawlers: Which Bots to Allow
GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot vs Claude-User, Googlebot vs Google-Extended: which AI crawlers to allow, which to block, and copy-ready robots.txt templates.
- How to Create and Optimize an llms.txt File for Your Website
The llms.txt format, where the file goes, how to keep it token-efficient, working examples for Next.js and static sites, and an honest account of who uses it.
- What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)? The Complete 2026 Guide
How ChatGPT Search, Perplexity and Claude find, read and cite pages, why that differs from Googlebot, and what the research says actually improves AI visibility.
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