# Does bot traffic count against my MAU quota?

Asked by bkrause on 2026-05-14. Tags: pricing, mau, bot-filtering.

The server logs of the marketplace I work on show a steady stream of LLM
crawlers and scrapers lately, some of them execute JS so they presumably hit
the Croct endpoints like a normal visitor. Two concerns:

1. Do these count toward the MAU quota we pay for?
2. Do they end up in experiment results and skew the numbers?

We are on Growth. Is there something I need to configure or does filtering
happen automatically

## 1 answer

### Answer from Ricardo Nunes (2026-05-14)

You are covered on both counts, with one checkbox to verify.

Known bots do not count toward MAU on paid plans when bot traffic
filtering is enabled. The feature is included from the Growth plan up, so
you have it, just confirm it is switched on in your workspace settings
rather than assuming.

Same mechanism handles your second concern: bot filtering also keeps bots
out of the experiment analytics. Since Croct's experiment stats are
unsampled and Bayesian, a crawler cohort clicking nothing would otherwise
drag conversion rates down across every variant, so filtering them at the
source matters more than it would with sampled analytics.

On the LLM crawler wave specifically, the Croct blog has a
[post about LLM bots and web traffic](https://blog.croct.com/post/llm-bots-web-traffic)
that is worth a read if you are seeing the same pattern we are, the volume
is not going down.