DeepSeekBot — What It Is and How to Handle It

DeepSeekBot is the crawler for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company that develops large language models for search and reasoning tasks.

Operator: DeepSeek | Type: AI Assistant | Category: AI Crawler

DeepSeekBot is classified as an AI crawler. It accesses your content for AI-related purposes. If you want to protect your content from being used without compensation, consider blocking or monetizing access from this crawler with Centinel.

Centinel automatically detects DeepSeekBot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.