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What the data says about AI tools

Numbers measured from directree's own crawl of every listed tool: pricing, crawler policies, stacks, adoption. Each piece states its sample, its data date and its method, and is recomputed on a schedule instead of going stale.

10.5%How many AI tools block GPTBot?10.5% of AI tools explicitly block OpenAI's GPTBot in robots.txt, measured across 9,037 live tools. Sites on Cloudflare block four times as often as sites on Vercel, and almost every blocker still lets the ChatGPT search bot in.9,037 tools · data as of 7 Sept 2026

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