Mydentify AI Crawler Access Checker Review 2026

Mydentify's AI Crawler Access Checker answers a question that regular robots.txt testers get wrong: can AI crawlers actually reach this page? It evaluates the submitted URL separately for six documented user agents — OpenAI's OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User and GPTBot, and Anthropic's Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User and ClaudeBot — because search discovery, user-requested retrieval and model training are three different permissions, and allowing one does not allow the others. Most competing checkers collapse these into one 'AI bots' bucket; separating them is the tool's real value. For each agent it fetches robots.txt and shows the exact matched rule, then goes further with a live labelled request using that user-agent string, reporting the actual HTTP response — which catches the CDN, WAF and rate-limit blocks that a robots.txt parse alone would never see (it correctly surfaces, for example, sites that allow a crawler on paper but return 403 in practice). Page-level robots meta tags and X-Robots-Tag headers are read too, and each crawler entry links the provider's primary documentation. A companion dependency-free Node CLI is published under the MIT license for scripted or CI use. The tool is free with no account, and notably careful about not overclaiming: probes originate from Mydentify's infrastructure rather than verified provider IP ranges, so it shows how a server treats the user-agent string, not a guarantee of how the official crawler will be treated — a limit the page itself states plainly, alongside a review date. Coverage is OpenAI and Anthropic only (no Perplexity, Google-Extended or Bytespider), it is single-URL with no bulk mode or monitoring, and very large pages can fail to fetch. As a free first check on AI accessibility — increasingly the first step of any GEO audit — it is accurate, honest and instant.