AI Assistant
✓ GEO Recommendation: Keep Open
ExaUser
Operated by Exa · Powers user-triggered Exa retrieval
ExaUser fetches web pages on demand in direct response to user requests made through Exa, rather than crawling the web broadly.
Owner
Exa
Trigger
User-triggered retrieval
Used for AI Training
Not officially documented
robots.txt control
Yes
Impact if blocked
May prevent Exa users from fetching your pages on demand.
How to identify
User-Agent: ExaUser
What it does
ExaUser fetches a specific web page in direct response to a user request made through Exa — it acts on behalf of one request at a time, not a broad crawl.
ExaUser is a separate agent from ExaSearchBot. Its verification method has not been separately confirmed and should not be assumed to match ExaSearchBot's cryptographic verification.
Why we recommend keeping it open
- Responds to a specific user's request, not a bulk crawl
- Blocking it can prevent a real user's Exa-based request from completing on your pages
- Separate from ExaSearchBot — blocking one does not affect the other
Identification & robots.txt
User-Agent identifier
ExaUser
Verification
No separately documented verification method for this agent.
Robots.txt guidance — Allow rule
User-agent: ExaUser
Allow: /