Does figma.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite figma.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

figma.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Common Crawl, ByteDance. 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

How figma.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; figma.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; figma.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; figma.com does not.
• Among 201 sites of similar popularity, 30% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /make/$
Allow: /id-id/make/$
Allow: /de-de/make/$
Allow: /es-es/make/$
Allow: /es-la/make/$
Allow: /fr-fr/make/$
Allow: /it-it/make/$
Allow: /nl-nl/make/$
Allow: /pl-pl/make/$
Allow: /pt-br/make/$
Allow: /hi-in/make/$
Allow: /ja-jp/make/$
Allow: /ko-kr/make/$
Allow: /th-th/make/$
Disallow: /exit?*
Disallow: /community/search?*
Disallow: /ja-jp/community/search?*
Disallow: /ko-kr/community/search?*
Disallow: /es-es/comunidad/search?*
Disallow: /es-la/comunidad/search?*
Disallow: /pt-br/comunidade/search?*
Disallow: /fr-fr/communaute/search?*
Disallow: /de-de/community/search?*
Disallow: /file/new?try-plugin-id=*
Disallow: /api/*
Disallow: /?lang=*
Disallow: /board/*
Disallow: /proto/
Disallow: /*/index.txt$
Disallow: /*/?context=localeChange*
Disallow: /make/*

User-agent: CHATGPT-User
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /$
Allow: /id-id/$
Allow: /de-de/$
Allow: /es-es/$
Allow: /es-la/$
Allow: /fr-fr/$
Allow: /it-it/$
Allow: /nl-nl/$
Allow: /pl-pl/$
Allow: /pt-br/$
Allow: /hi-in/$
Allow: /ja-jp/$
Allow: /ko-kr/$
Allow: /th-th/$
Allow: /pricing/$
Allow: /id-id/pricing/$
Allow: /de-de/pricing/$
Allow: /es-es/pricing/$
Allow: /es-la/pricing/$
Allow: /fr-fr/pricing/$
Allow: /it-it/pricing/$
Allow: /nl-nl/pricing/$
Allow: /pl-pl/pricing/$
Allow: /pt-br/pricing/$
Allow: /hi-in/pricing/$
Allow: /ja-jp/pricing/$
Allow: /ko-kr/pricing/$
Allow: /th-th/pricing/$
Allow: /contact/$
Allow: /id-id/contact/$
Allow: /de-de/contact/$
Allow: /es-es/contact/$
Allow: /es-la/contact/$
Allow: /fr-fr/contact/$
Allow: /it-it/contact/$
Allow: /nl-nl/contact/$
Allow: /pl-pl/contact/$
Allow: /pt-br/contact/$
Allow: /hi-in/contact/$
Allow: /ja-jp/contact/$

Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.

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