Does gsmarena.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
gsmarena.com blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from gsmarena.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 7 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 10
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 2,000 (#1,119)
Can AI assistants cite gsmarena.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawler is blocked
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
gsmarena.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Common Crawl, Meta. 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 gsmarena.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Blocked |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Blocked |
How gsmarena.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; gsmarena.com is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; gsmarena.com is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; gsmarena.com is one of them.
- Among 202 sites of similar popularity, 31% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Disallow: /postopinion.php3 Disallow: /postcomment.php3 Disallow: /postreviewcomment.php3 Disallow: /forum/ Disallow: /strongpanasonic/ Disallow: /copy/ Disallow: /forums/ Disallow: /new/ Disallow: /apple/ Disallow: /swf/ Disallow: /a/ Disallow: /m/ Disallow: /news.php3/ Disallow: /reviews.php3/ Disallow: /stats.php3/ Disallow: /battery-test.php3/ Disallow: /Files/ Disallow: /Fa/ Disallow: /report.php3 Disallow: /index.php3 Disallow: /switch.php3 Disallow: /sitesearch.php3 Disallow: /res.php3 Disallow: /nickname.php3 Disallow: /login-facebook.php3 Disallow: /login-google.php3 User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: /$ Allow: /*.php$ Disallow: /*-reviews- Disallow: /newscomm- Disallow: /reviewcomm- Disallow: /*-pictures- Disallow: /related.php3 Disallow: /compare.php3 Disallow: /results.php3 Disallow: /post*.php3 Disallow: /res.php3 User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: /
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does gsmarena.com block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, gsmarena.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from gsmarena.com?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does gsmarena.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at gsmarena.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: gsmarena.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.