# Crawlantix — AI Bot Tracker

> AI Bot Tracker is a WordPress plugin that tracks AI crawlers in both directions: it detects, monitors, and responds to AI bots visiting your website, and it checks whether AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) actually cite you — then recommends and verifies fixes. Built by Crawlantix.

## What it does

Inbound: AI Bot Tracker identifies AI bots (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI, and others) crawling your WordPress site using honeypot detection, user-agent analysis, robots.txt trap detection, and behavioral signals. It provides a real-time dashboard showing every AI crawler visit with IP, user agent, request path, timestamp, and detection method, plus six response strategies from silent logging to hard blocking.

Outbound: with your own OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API keys (BYOK), it checks whether AI engines actually cite your site. You get an AI Visibility Score (0–100), a branded vs. unbranded query split, your Share-of-AI-Voice against competitors, the Sources AI Trusts in your industry, and hallucination detection that flags fabricated facts about your business.

Recommendations: a recommendation engine turns findings into ranked, grouped fixes. A built-in prove-loop re-checks your site after each change and shows the "Fixes that worked," so you know which changes moved the needle rather than guessing.

## Key facts

- WordPress plugin, installs from the WordPress.org plugin directory
- Sub-millisecond detection overhead, no external dependencies, no JavaScript injection on visitor page loads
- Detects all 45+ known AI bots, with FCrDNS bot verification
- AI Visibility checks are BYOK (bring your own OpenAI / Anthropic / Google keys) — token costs stay under your control, with built-in token cost tracking
- Monitor (Free): all 45+ AI bot detection, real-time dashboard and charts, honeypot endpoint with logging, bot verification (FCrDNS), top bots and top pages analytics, 30-day retention
- Protect ($5.75/mo, $69/yr): all 6 response strategies, auto-blocking with tiered thresholds, custom honeypot paths, robots.txt trap detection, per-IP rules and whitelists, email alerts, parameter explosion alerts, llms.txt + llms-full.txt AI discoverability files, 365-day retention
- Optimize ($10.75/mo, $129/yr): AI Visibility Score + branded/unbranded split, Share-of-AI-Voice, Sources AI Trusts, hallucination detection, recommendation engine with prove-loop, weekly email digest, All Crawled Pages table, crawl health and velocity analytics, GeoIP tracking, ai-plugin.json AI agent discovery, CSV export
- Scale ($20.75/mo, $249/yr): automated weekly recommendation prove-loop, REST API (17+ endpoints), OpenAPI 3.0 spec, backup and restore, unlimited retention, priority support

## Docs

- Documentation: https://crawlantix.com/docs/
- Covers: getting started and installation, dashboard and analytics, honeypot detection, robots.txt trap, response strategies, auto-blocking, per-IP rules and whitelists, AI visibility setup (BYOK), recommendations and the prove-loop, REST API

## FAQ

- What is AI Bot Tracker? A free WordPress plugin that detects AI crawlers visiting your site using honeypot detection, user-agent analysis, and behavioral signals — with paid tiers that add active defense and outbound AI-visibility checks.
- How does honeypot detection work? The plugin creates hidden paths invisible to real visitors but followed by AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt; visiting one is a definitive bot signal with zero false positives.
- What response strategies are available? Six: Log Only (silent recording), Block 403 (hard deny), Tarpit (slow-drip response), Rate Limit (429 after threshold), Decoy Content (serve fake data to pollute training sets), and Shadowban (bot thinks it succeeded but gets nothing useful). Log Only is free; all six are available on Protect and above.
- Does it slow down my site? No — detection runs in under 1 millisecond with no external API calls, no JavaScript injection, and no database queries on normal visitor page loads.
- What is the AI Visibility Score? A 0–100 score of how often AI engines cite your site for queries in your niche, measured with your own API keys, split into branded and unbranded queries.

## Links

- Website: https://crawlantix.com
- Blog: https://crawlantix.com/blog/
- Privacy Policy: https://crawlantix.com/privacy/
- Terms of Service: https://crawlantix.com/terms/
- Refund Policy: https://crawlantix.com/refund/
- Support: support@crawlantix.com