Does razorpay.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite razorpay.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

razorpay.com opts out of AI training by 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 razorpay.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; razorpay.com does not.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; razorpay.com does not.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; razorpay.com does not.
• Among 165 sites of similar popularity, 25% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /draft/
Disallow: /ab/
Disallow: /newsroom/category/
Disallow: /newsletters/3
Disallow: /popupdemo/
Disallow: /rquery
Disallow: /themedemo/
Disallow: /payment-link/p*
Disallow: /export-link/@*
Disallow: /blog/tag/
Allow: /

User-agent: ByteSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: AndiBot
User-agent: ExaBot
User-agent: PhindBot
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Apple-Extended
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /draft/
Disallow: /ab/
Allow: /

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

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