Soleil AI Counter
Soleil AI Counter detects and counts visits from known AI-related user agents in WordPress.
The plugin is designed as a neutral AI access meter. It does not judge whether AI access is good or bad. It records detected access facts so site administrators can review them and make their own decisions.
Soleil AI Counter can be useful for sites that want to understand AI-related crawler activity, whether they want to welcome AI access, limit AI access, or simply observe what is happening.
Important limitations:
- Detection is based on User-Agent strings.
- User-Agent values can be spoofed.
- Counts do not guarantee citation, training, indexing, ranking, or inclusion in any AI service.
- Browser, page, CDN, and server caching may affect when WordPress records a request.
- The Free version is designed to avoid storing personally identifying visitor information.
- The Free version does not send data to external services.
- If Soleil AI Counter Pro is active, the Free version pauses its own tracking and UI to avoid duplicate processing.
Features
- Detects supported AI-related User-Agent strings.
- Shows today’s detected AI-related accesses.
- Shows detected accesses from the past 7 days.
- Shows cumulative detected accesses.
- Shows totals by supported bot.
- Shows the latest detected access time and bot name.
- Shows each supported bot’s latest detected time.
- Adds a WordPress admin page under Tools.
- Adds a dashboard widget.
- Provides a simple
[soleil_ai_counter]shortcode. - Stores anonymous aggregate counts locally in WordPress options.
Supported AI Bots
The Free version includes these default User-Agent fragments:
- GPTBot
- OAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT-User
- ClaudeBot
- Claude-SearchBot
- PerplexityBot
The list can be filtered by developers with soleil_ai_counter_bot_patterns.
Privacy
Soleil AI Counter Free is designed to store aggregate count data only.
By default, it does not store:
- IP addresses
- Cookies
- Visitor identifiers
- Referrer URLs
- Raw User-Agent logs
The plugin reads the request User-Agent during a WordPress page request to classify known AI-related bots. If a supported bot is detected, the plugin increments local aggregate counters.
No data is sent to external services by the plugin.
Cache limitations
Soleil AI Counter runs inside WordPress. If a request is served entirely by a CDN, web server cache, page cache, or hosting cache before WordPress runs, the plugin may not count that request.
Counts may differ from server logs, CDN logs, analytics tools, or AI service reporting. The plugin is not a complete access log.