[AI crawlers](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/crawlers) · Neeva · Retired token · Not scored

# NeevaBot

NeevaBot is Neeva's retired token crawler token. Blocking it costs nothing in the AI readiness score. 7.4% of the top 1,000 websites with a robots.txt block it.

Neeva's search crawler. Neeva shut down in 2023; the token is kept so an old robots.txt is read correctly, and it is not scored.

## Where this comes from

- **Retired by the vendor.** No vendor page names this token.
- **Robots.txt behaviour undocumented.**
- **Listed, not scored.** It cannot keep a site out of today's answers, so the check shows a block without deducting for it.

## In the top 1,000 websites

- **7.4% block it in robots.txt** (42 of the 569 sites with a robots.txt), as of 2026-10-12.
- Method, limits and the full data: [the October 2026 study of the top 1,000 websites](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/research/ai-crawler-access-october-2026).

## What blocking it costs

Nothing: the vendor no longer sends this name. A rule for it is harmless and is not scored.

## The robots.txt lines

To let it in (a group that names the crawler replaces any wildcard rules for it, so this also lifts a `User-agent: *` block):

```
User-agent: NeevaBot
Allow: /
```

To keep it out:

```
User-agent: NeevaBot
Disallow: /
```

A rule in robots.txt is a request. Whether this crawler honours it is undocumented. The [robots.txt generator](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/tools/robots-txt) writes a whole file with the same split: block the training crawlers, keep the search and answer crawlers.

## Does NeevaBot get through on your site?

[Run the free check](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/): it reads your robots.txt against all 51 crawlers and tells you which ones can read you, and what to change.

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Source: https://www.crawlreadiness.com/crawlers/neevabot