What is Bingbot?

Microsoft · search index · class search

Indexes for Bing, and feeds Copilot answers. Verified by reverse DNS.

Verdict: Let it in. Verify it.

Profile

Compiled by Crawler Atlas from the operator's published documentation. Not yet declared by the operator. JSON

Operator	Microsoft · www.bing.com
Purpose	Search engines. Index pages for search results. Verified by reverse DNS and free by default; blocking them removes you from search.
User-agent contains	`bingbot`
robots.txt	`User-agent: Bingbot` `Disallow: /`
How to verify	Reverse DNS on the client address must end in `.search.msn.com` and resolve forward to the same address. The operator publishes its address ranges: www.bing.com. A request that claims this name from an address outside these is an impostor.
Should you block it?	Let it in. Verify it.
Does it pay?	No. It does not carry a wallet and cannot answer a 402. A site that charges simply serves it nothing.
Docs	https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0

Anonymous daily counts from sites running Pay-per-Crawl that opted in, plus the ForgeMesh fleet. Last 7 days. Small sample: 1 sites reporting.

No sightings reported yet. Bingbot appears here the day an opted-in site sees it.

See it in your own logs, verify it, and charge, allow or block it by name with the free Pay-per-Crawl plugin (WordPress, Python, JavaScript, Go, PHP).
Run this crawler? Publish a crawler-profile.json on your domain and this page shows your declared profile with a verified badge.
Machine-readable twin: /bots/bingbot/profile.json (free in a browser). Machines: POST {"slug":"bingbot"} to x402.forgemesh.io/bot-profiles, $0.005 per call over x402.

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