# What is cohere-ai?

> cohere-ai (Cohere): what it does, how it helps your site show up in AI products, and how to test access on your own URL.

Canonical: https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/cohere-ai

AI crawler · retrieval · Cohere

Cohere's crawler for retrieval and training in Cohere-powered apps.

### How this helps you show up

Smaller reach than OpenAI or Google, but straightforward: if partners build on Cohere and you want to be quotable, the bot needs access.

### If it cannot reach your page

Cohere-backed apps will not see new pages from you.

### The facts

**robots.txt token**

cohere-ai

**Owner**

Cohere

**Product it serves**

Cohere

**Category**

retrieval — indexed so an answer can cite it

**Training opt-out**

Documented — only affects training-style use, not every AI product

**User agent as sent**

`Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; cohere-ai/1.0; +https://cohere.com/bot)`

robots.txt is a request, not a lock. Our checker fetches your page as cohere-ai and reports what actually came back — status code, challenge page, or real HTML.

### Check your site in a minute

The [AI crawler checker](https://crawlwise.site/tools/ai-crawler-check) tests cohere-ai plus the other answer-engine bots on one URL. No account. Want robots.txt logic only? Use the [robots.txt tester](https://crawlwise.site/tools/robots-tester).

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