Which AI Bots Visit Your Website? A Look at 5 Tracking Tools

To find out which AI bots visit your website, start with the requests reaching your CDN or server. A normal pageview dashboard can miss crawlers that fetch HTML without running its JavaScript.

Then ask what the record actually proves. A bot requesting a page, a human arriving from an AI app and your brand appearing in an AI answer are three different events.

These five tracking tools help with the request side. This is a comparison of official documentation checked on November 13, 2026, not a hands-on benchmark. I'm a co-founder of Screpy, which is included below.

Compare the collection layer first

Before comparing dashboards, check where the data comes from and which requests the integration can see. An origin-only feed and a CDN-edge view can cover different traffic. A cached response may never need to reach the origin.

Also ask how the service identifies a bot. A familiar name in a user-agent string is weaker evidence than an identity check. Keep the product's actual classification attached to the finding rather than relabeling all automated traffic as verified AI activity.

These are workflow differences, not a ranking of which vendor detects every bot. None of the comparisons below establishes universal coverage.

1. Cloudflare AI Crawl Control

If your website's traffic already passes through Cloudflare, AI Crawl Control is a sensible first place to look. It is available on all Cloudflare plans and combines crawler reporting with access controls.

The analytics documentation describes request trends, crawler and operator breakdowns, status codes and popular paths. Filters include hostname and path, which matter when a zone contains several subdomains.

Read the counters carefully: all requests include blocked requests and error responses. Successful requests are those receiving a 200–299 response. A high request count therefore doesn't mean that the bot successfully received your articles that many times.

The core tool being available on every plan doesn't mean every report is free. Referral reporting is paid-plan functionality. Check the history and dimensions available to your account before planning recurring reports.

I'd start here before buying another subscription if the question is simply, “Which recognized AI crawlers are hitting our Cloudflare zone?” Its boundary is that collection layer; it doesn't describe traffic that never passes through it.

2. Known Agents

Known Agents, formerly Dark Visitors, is the more focused option here. Its Agent Analytics product breaks traffic down by agent, category and requested page, with failure analysis and spoof-verification features.

The setup guide separates website pageviews from API-call tracking and access controls. You connect the traffic you want to analyze through a supported integration or your backend; the dashboard can't describe a feed you haven't connected.

Its monthly pricing lists a free plan with one project and 100,000 events per month. Startup is $29/month, with three projects and one million events.

“Events” is the important word. Every API call counts, including identification requests and other API usage; individual items in a batch count separately. Don't size the plan as if the allowance represented unique human visitors.

I'd compare it when you want specialist bot reporting without starting with a broad AI visibility subscription. Check the feature matrix as well as the event allowance, particularly if exports, team access or reporting APIs are part of the requirement.

3. Profound Agent Analytics

Profound Agent Analytics uses server logs rather than JavaScript trackers for AI bot analysis. The product describes crawler verification and integrations with existing hosting and edge infrastructure.

That is worth comparing when a team wants incoming crawler activity alongside a broader AI-search workflow. The useful buying question is concrete: can your log source connect, and will the report preserve enough detail to investigate the pages and response outcomes you care about?

Keep its different evidence types separate. A platform can offer both crawler reporting and answer analysis without every recorded crawl proving a citation. Ask what source supports each metric instead of assuming that adjacent dashboard charts establish a causal connection.

The current pricing page lists a free trial and custom Enterprise packages. It doesn't provide a fixed Enterprise subscription amount to quote here. Confirm Agent Analytics scope, retention, export access and ongoing cost in the actual proposal.

I'd evaluate it as part of a wider team requirement, rather than assume the full platform is necessary just to count requests to a small documentation site.

4. Scrunch

Scrunch's bot-traffic documentation describes direct CDN and hosting integrations that collect requests and classify them by bot type and platform.

Supported connections include Akamai, AWS CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Vercel and WordPress. Check the integration route for your actual deployment before treating it as a plug-in replacement for whatever analytics you already use.

It is a candidate when you want agent traffic beside prompt and citation monitoring. Those are still different measurements: request activity can help explain access, while answer monitoring investigates what appears in the monitored responses.

The Starter plan is $300 month-to-month, or $250/month billed annually, equivalent to $3,000 for a year. The page lists agent traffic monitoring among the core capabilities, alongside limits such as 350 custom prompts and five page audits. The seven-day Starter trial requires no credit card.

I'd compare that bundle against the work you actually need. If bot reporting is the only requirement, include the narrower free or specialist options in the cost comparison instead of paying for prompt capacity you won't use.

5. Screpy

Screpy AI & Bot Traffic brings connected Cloudflare bot data into the SEO workspace. It needs a matching zone and an active token with the required access.

The view covers seven days of completed hourly intervals, excluding the incomplete current hour. It reports verified bot categories, request trends, transferred data and response outcomes. The scope is the Cloudflare zone, which can include other hostnames, rather than necessarily just the project's hostname.

You can inspect aggregated non-2xx paths for a selected crawler. “Unsuccessful” includes redirects as well as errors, so investigate the intended response before calling it a defect. Missing access or unavailable data isn't zero traffic.

This is analytics, not a raw request-log export or crawler-control tool. MCP exposes supported traffic-based Quick Wins, not the full bot-traffic dashboard, and doesn't fix the site automatically.

For budgeting, the general Pro subscription has a regular annual price of $192, equivalent to $16/month paid upfront, for five projects. The pricing page doesn't give AI & Bot Traffic a separate plan line or unlimited request allowance; confirm its availability in your account rather than infer it from that general price.

Welcome offers are conditional. Check your checkout total and renewal terms. The seven-day trial becomes paid unless cancelled, and subscriptions renew automatically. The separate AI Visibility feature is not included in Pro.

I'd compare Screpy when the next action is a technical SEO investigation and you want that request context alongside the rest of the project.

Turn a bot count into a useful investigation

Before subscribing, pick an important page and decide what finding would change your next action. Here are illustrative interpretations, not test results:

Keep a short record: source, bot classification, hostname, path, response status, reporting window and intended behavior. That gives an engineer something actionable instead of “AI traffic looks bad.”

Start with the collection layer you already have. Cloudflare can answer the native edge question; Known Agents offers a focused agent workflow; Profound and Scrunch combine traffic with wider AI-search work; Screpy adds connected bot context to an SEO project.

Choose the one whose evidence and operating cost fit the question. You don't need another subscription just because a crawler has an AI name. You need a reliable enough record to decide whether anything needs fixing.