Does cisco.com block AI crawlers?
Open to AI crawlers
cisco.com doesn't block any of the major AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt.
Checked from cisco.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 0 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 4
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 500 (#233)
Can AI assistants cite cisco.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
- Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
- Perplexity: its search crawlers may read the site
cisco.com doesn't opt out of AI model training through robots.txt. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.
AI crawler access, bot by bot
| Crawler | Used for | Status on cisco.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Allowed |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Allowed |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Allowed |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Allowed |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Some paths restricted |
How cisco.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; cisco.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; cisco.com does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; cisco.com does not.
- Among 188 sites of similar popularity, 34% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: CCBot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: /site/us/en/ Allow: /c/us/en/ Allow: /*.llms.txt$ Allow: /*.md$ Allow: https://www.cisco.com/llms.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /*.html?cachemode=refresh$ Disallow: /bug-navigator Disallow: /web/telepresence/pro/ Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /pcgi-bin Disallow: /univ-src/ccden Disallow: /cpropub/univercd Disallow: /jobs Disallow: /en/US/swassets/ Disallow: /univercd/cc/td/doc Disallow: /univercd/ Disallow: /tacpage Disallow: /survey/ Disallow: /web/login Disallow: /ciscodotcom/ Disallow: /c/contentReuse/ Disallow: /c/contentreuse/ Disallow: /c/dam/assets/offers/pdfs/ Disallow: /c/dam/en/us/td/docs/Sanity/datasheet/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/da_dk/offers/assets/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/da_dk/offers/assets/pdfs/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/de_de/offers/assets/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/de_de/offers/assets/pdfs/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/digital/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_au/offers/assets/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_au/offers/assets/pdfs/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_au/offers/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_au/offers/video/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_emear/offers/assets/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_emear/offers/assets/pdfs/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_hk/offers/assets/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_hk/offers/assets/pdf/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_id/offers/assets/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_id/offers/assets/pdfs/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_id/offers/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_in/offers/assets/images/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_in/offers/assets/pdfs/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_in/offers/images Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_in/offers/video/ Disallow: /c/dam/m/en_my/offers/assets/images/
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does cisco.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, cisco.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot.
Can ChatGPT search show results from cisco.com?
Its robots.txt doesn't block OAI-SearchBot or ChatGPT-User, so ChatGPT's search crawlers may read it. Whether pages are actually shown depends on ChatGPT.
Does cisco.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at cisco.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: cisco.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.