cohere-ai
SafeUser-agent: cohere-ai
Category: AI & LLM Bots
SEO impact if blocked: 2/10
Cohere
2 crawlers operated by Cohere
Who Cohere is, for site owners
Cohere operates 2 crawlers in our directory, filed under AI & LLM Bots. Of those 2, 1 rated safe, 1 rated caution for crawl behaviour.
Blocking Cohere carries an SEO impact score of 2/10 across its crawlers. Every crawler here carries the same blocking impact: Low - No SEO ranking impact.
Our recommendation for Cohere, set by its least reassuring crawler (cohere-training-data-crawler, rated caution): Consider blocking based on your content strategy.
Cohere at a glance
| Operator | Cohere |
|---|---|
| Crawlers in directory | 2 |
| Categories | AI & LLM Bots |
| SEO impact if blocked | 2/10 |
| Crawl behaviour | 1 rated safe, 1 rated caution |
| Official crawler docs | Cohere crawler documentation |
Crawlers operated by Cohere
How to block or allow Cohere in robots.txt
These rules cover all 2 crawlers Cohere operates. Add them to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Block Cohere completely
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /
Allow Cohere explicitly
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Allow: /
robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement mechanism. A crawler that ignores it needs a block at the server or CDN layer. Rules are case-sensitive on the path and matched against the user-agent token, not the full user-agent string.
Frequently asked questions about Cohere
What crawlers does Cohere run?
Cohere operates 2 crawlers in our directory: cohere-ai (user-agent cohere-ai), cohere-training-data-crawler (user-agent cohere-training-data-crawler).
Should I block Cohere?
Consider blocking based on your content strategy. That guidance follows this operator's least reassuring crawler, cohere-training-data-crawler, rated caution, because allowing an operator allows every crawler it runs. The SEO impact score for blocking is 2/10, where 10 means blocking costs you the most visibility.
How do I block Cohere in robots.txt?
Add the following to robots.txt at your domain root: User-agent: cohere-ai then User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler then Disallow: /. One Disallow line covers all 2 user-agent tokens.
Does blocking Cohere hurt my search rankings?
Every crawler here carries the same blocking impact: Low - No SEO ranking impact. Google's own ranking crawler is Googlebot, which this operator does not run, so blocking Cohere does not by itself remove you from Google's index. What it can change is whether AI assistants and analytics tools can read your pages.