New one-click AI bot managed ruleset
One click to block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and 10+ AI crawlers. Vercel just turned AI bot defense into a commodity.
Why it matters
As AI crawlers now exceed human traffic on major sites, Vercel's managed ruleset solves a growing operational headache for developers—and signals a shift in how the industry handles data scraping friction at scale.
The key facts
7 to knowAI crawlers now generate more traffic than human users on many popular sites
Blocks GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Bytespider (ByteDance), and others
Zero latency impact to legitimate traffic
Automatically updates as new crawlers appear
Available free on all Vercel plans
Ruleset managed by Vercel with no manual intervention required
Can be combined with Bot Filter to catch spoofed user agents
Go to the source
Vercel Blogvercel.com
Publisher excerpt: You can now block AI crawlers and scrapers like GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Bytespider (ByteDance), and others with a single toggle using the AI bot managed ruleset. Now available for free on all plans. The ruleset is managed by Vercel and updates automatically as new…