Does evspec.in block AI crawlers?

Not quite. evspec.in does something rarer than blocking: it publishes a licence and asks AI companies to pay.

Read straight out of the CrawlState record, a dated sweep of 980,106 domains on 7 September 2026. Nothing on this page is estimated, and nothing about evspec.in is inferred from what similar sites do.

What we wrote down

Verdictcharge

One of five: block, charge, signal, open, silent. The record keeps the strongest thing a site said, not every thing it said.

Reasontoll vendor

The note the sweep wrote at the moment it decided, in its own words.

HTTP status200

What evspec.in answered with when we asked for its rules.

Swept7 September 2026

A record has a date on it or it is worthless. This one has this date.

What that actually means

This is a site that has decided its words are worth money and has said so in public, either by publishing terms an AI company is meant to agree to or by answering a request with a price instead of a page. It is the opposite instinct to blocking: not go away, but pay for it. Like a refusal, it is a stated position rather than a barrier, and it works on the companies that bother to look.

How evspec.in compares

Only 3,973 domains out of 753,395 do this, 0.53% — about one in every two hundred sites that answered. It is the smallest of the deliberate positions and the one almost nobody takes.

Name an AI crawler and refuse it131,508 · 17.5%

Publish a licence or return a price — evspec.in3,973 · 0.53%

Carry a Content-Signal preference only2,087 · 0.3%

Declare nothing at all615,827 · 81.7%

Shares are of the 753,395 domains that answered. A further 226,711 never answered at all, which is why they are not in the bars above.

Find out what happens now

The record says what evspec.in declared on 7 September 2026. It does not say whether anyone obeyed it. The live report asks the site for its own homepage under three named AI crawlers and tells you what each one was actually served, which is usually the surprise.

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Method: two requests per domain, on 7 September 2026. We record what came back and nothing else. How a verdict is decided · The awkward questions · The same record over an API