BotBill is a WordPress plugin that shows how many requests and how much bandwidth GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider and 100+ other crawlers take from your server, in dollars. Then it blocks or rate-limits them for real, not just with a robots.txt line they can ignore.
WordPress 6.x · free version included · cancel any time
Bandwidth served to AI crawlers · estimated at your host's price per GB
Illustrative numbers, not a real customer.
robots.txt is a polite request. Badly behaved crawlers, and bots that fake a browser name, ignore it.
Host dashboards show total bandwidth, not which bot used it. You can't decide what to block without that.
Some AI crawlers send you visitors. Cut the expensive ones, keep the useful ones.
Requests, bandwidth and estimated cost for each crawler, by day, at your host's price per GB.
Return 403 to the bots you choose, before WordPress spends time building the page.
Allow a crawler, but only 100 pages an hour. Keep the traffic, lose the load spikes.
Checks claimed crawlers against their companies' published IP ranges and flags impostors.
It records a few fields per crawler request and checks the user agent early, before the page is built. Human visitors are not logged.
It counts requests that reach WordPress. If a CDN such as Cloudflare answers a request first, BotBill won't see it, and the CDN's own logs are the place to look.
No. Logs stay in your WordPress database.