Salience

Salience is a search and AI crawler intelligence tool that analyzes server logs to show bot and human traffic.

Salience turns server and CDN data into a live view of requests from people, search engines, and AI bots. It processes data server-side without a browser tracking script to provide analytics, crawler verification, and alerts. Users can connect platforms like Cloudflare, Vercel, Shopify, Apache, and Nginx. The dashboard helps engineering, security, and content teams catch errors, find blocked crawlers, and understand how bots interact with the site. It also provides a REST API, CLI, and MCP server for querying crawler data.

Salience at a glance

Best for: Software engineer, Marketer
Runs on: Web, API, CLI
Pricing: Free plan; Solo; Starter; Growth $149/month; Pro; Enterprise
Released: October 2026
Category: AI search engine
Website: salience.com

Key features

Verify search and AI crawler identities
Monitor real-time requests and responses
Detect 4xx and 5xx errors
Send alerts via email and Slack
Integrate with Cloudflare, Vercel, and Shopify
Provide REST API, CLI, and MCP server
Export data to CSV

Use it for

Track Googlebot, GPTBot, and ClaudeBot activity
Identify blocked crawlers and broken paths
Verify genuine search and AI crawler traffic
Monitor server logs without browser scripts

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