Rank 1,085 in the Majestic Million · checked October 19, 2026
Does sophos.com block AI crawlers?
No. As of October 19, 2026, sophos.com's robots.txt allows all 17 AI crawlers we check everywhere. 8 of them are named in a group of their own; the others follow no group.
It serves an llms.txt (25,391 bytes, starting with a Markdown title). Its homepage is 248,910 tokens of raw HTML, 318 as Markdown (0.1%) and 79 pruned for the question “What is sophos.com?”.
Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules
From https://www.sophos.com/robots.txt (1,719 bytes, 22 user-agent groups), parsed per RFC 9309. Blocked: no path allowed. Partly blocked: some paths disallowed. The rule counts are those of the groups that apply.
| Crawler | Operator | Verdict | Rules that apply | Disallow rules | Allow rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | Allowed | Its own group | 0 | 1 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Allowed | Its own group | 0 | 1 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Allowed | Its own group | 0 | 1 |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Allowed | Its own group | 0 | 1 |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | Allowed | Its own group | 0 | 1 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Allowed | Its own group | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Google-Extended | Allowed | Its own group | 0 | 1 | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | Allowed | Its own group | 0 | 1 |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| ContextFetchBot (us) | ContextFetch | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
Its homepage in tokens
https://www.sophos.com/en-us, fetched once and converted locally with the ContextFetch engine. Tokens are characters divided by four, rounded up, the count the API reports in its X-Raw-Tokens and X-Output-Tokens headers.
| Group | Raw HTML | Markdown | Pruned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokens | 248,910 | 318 | 79 |
Read sophos.com through ContextFetch
GET /r/ returns a page as Markdown, with X-Raw-Tokens and X-Output-Tokens headers. Add ?q= and a question to get only the passages that answer it. No key needed for 25 requests a day; a free key has 2,500 credits.
curl -si "https://api.contextfetch.dev/r/https://sophos.com/"curl -X POST https://api.contextfetch.dev/v1/keys/freeHow ContextFetchBot behaves · All sites and the method · Raw data
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