Does Airbnb allow AI agents?

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Section 11.1 (Rules) of the Terms of Service bars bots, crawlers, scrapers or other automated means to access or collect data or other content from, or otherwise interact with, the Airbnb Platform, and bars circumventing security or technological measures. This is the version for users outside the EEA, UK and Australia (Last Updated: February 5, 2026).

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What the site's own pages say

Each line links to the page it comes from. Lines marked as crawler rules come from the site's robots.txt and tell automated crawlers what not to fetch; they are not legal terms.

• Terms (11.1 Rules) bar bots, crawlers, scrapers or other automated means to access, collect data from, or otherwise interact with the platform

  Official source Source as of 2026-02-05

• Terms bar circumventing security or technological measures that protect the platform

  Official source Source as of 2026-02-05

• Terms bar scraping the platform

  Official source Source as of 2026-02-05

• Users must not help or induce others to break these rules

  Official source Source as of 2026-02-05

• Terms of Service last updated February 5, 2026

  Official source Source as of 2026-02-05

• Airbnb's robots.txt (a crawler rule, not a legal ban): disallows the whole site for GPTBot and ClaudeBot (and Applebot-Extended, AI2Bot, MistralAI-Training)

  Official source Source source undated, checked 2026-10-27 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• Airbnb's robots.txt (a crawler rule, not a legal ban): gives ChatGPT-User and OAI-Searchbot their own groups with path-level rules rather than a full block

  Official source Source source undated, checked 2026-10-27 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

Sources

• Airbnb Terms of Service 2026-02-05
• Airbnb robots.txt source undated, checked 2026-10-27