AI Deny
AI companies crawl the open web to train their models and power AI search. AI Deny gives you a simple way to say no. It adds Disallow rules for more than 30 known AI user agents to the robots.txt that WordPress already serves. Nothing is blocked until you choose. Block every one of them, or go down
About this tool.
AI companies crawl the open web to train their models and power AI search. AI Deny gives you a simple way to say no.
It adds Disallow rules for more than 30 known AI user agents to the robots.txt that WordPress already serves. Nothing is blocked until you choose. Block every one of them, or go down the list and pick only the ones you want to keep out. Each crawler comes with a short note on who runs it and what it’s for, so you’re never guessing.
What you get
- 30+ AI crawlers, ready to block. GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, PerplexityBot, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent and more.
- A toggle for every bot. Choose crawler by crawler under Settings → AI Deny.
- Plain-English descriptions. See who operates each crawler and what it collects before you decide.
- Nothing written to your server. Rules are added through WordPress’s own robots.txt filter, so there’s no file to manage.
- Works with “Discourage search engines.” Your AI rules still appear when that setting is on.
- A noai, noimageai meta tag on every page, for crawlers that look for it.
- Translation ready.
Why block AI crawlers?
- Your work, your call. Decide whether your writing, photos and products end up in someone else’s training data.
- A lighter server load. Aggressive crawlers can hammer a site with requests, slowing it down for the people you actually built it for.
- Less bandwidth spent on bots that send you little or no traffic in return.
A straight answer about robots.txt
robots.txt is a request, not a lock. The major AI companies say their crawlers respect it, and that covers most of the traffic you’ll see. A bot that chooses to ignore robots.txt won’t be stopped by this plugin, or by any robots.txt plugin. If you need that, block it at your host, firewall or CDN.
Built by Code For Broke
AI Deny is made and maintained by Code For Broke , an independent web developer working with marketing teams and small businesses on WordPress and fast, secure websites. Questions and suggestions come straight to me through the support forum .
