SearchSeal vs Known Agents
Known Agents tracks AI agents, crawlers and scrapers, attributes human LLM referrals, and manages robots.txt rules automatically.
Known Agents and SearchSeal both record real AI agent traffic. Known Agents combines agent analytics, LLM referral attribution and automatic robots.txt management. SearchSeal keeps human analytics and crawler evidence separate, with no access-control automation.
Known Agents measures
- Visits from AI agents, crawlers and scrapers, identified against a large agent directory
- Human LLM referral traffic and conversions from AI platforms
- Automatic robots.txt generation and updates as new agents appear
SearchSeal measures
- Pageviews, privacy-safe daily visitors and sessions, and acquisition sources
- Human referrals from AI products, goals, conversion rates and same-day attributed revenue
- Real requests from AI crawlers, including requested paths and HTTP outcomes
- Observed evidence with explicit limits: crawler unknown is never rendered as zero
Side by side
Data in
Known Agents
Cloudflare, Vercel, WordPress and other infrastructure integrations, SDKs or REST API
SearchSeal
Cloudflare OAuth, or access logs from any host over HTTPS
Robots.txt
Known Agents
Manages rules automatically and can block agent categories
SearchSeal
Reports allow, partial or block verdicts. Never edits your files
LLM referral tracking
Known Agents
Yes
SearchSeal
Yes. Human AI referrals stay separate from crawler evidence
Programmatic access
Known Agents
API
SearchSeal
REST API and MCP server
What a number means
Known Agents
Logged agent visits
SearchSeal
Observed counts with labeled coverage. Unknown is never shown as zero
When Known Agents fits
You want agent tracking plus automation: current robots.txt rules, agent controls and human referral attribution in the same place.
When SearchSeal fits
You want simple website analytics and conversion outcomes beside observation-only crawler evidence queryable over API or MCP.
Same question, different workflows. Pick the one you will actually use.
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