PerplexityBot builds Perplexity's search index — the pages it can retrieve and cite in its answers. Builds the index an AI search product answers from; blocking it removes you from those answers.
PerplexityBot builds Perplexity's search index — the pages it can retrieve and cite in its answers. Perplexity shows its sources, so being in the index means being visibly cited.
Search index: builds the index an AI search product answers from; blocking it removes you from those answers.
User-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)robots.txt token: PerplexityBot. Documented: honours robots.txt.
Perplexity publishes its IP ranges as a feed at https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json. A request claiming to be PerplexityBot from an address outside those ranges is an impostor.
AI bot verifier → checks an IP and user-agent against the published ranges and reverse DNS, free.
Blocking PerplexityBot removes you from Perplexity's answers and citations. Perplexity also documents Perplexity-User for fetches made on a person's behalf.
https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
Check your site: the AI Crawler Access Check reads your robots.txt for PerplexityBot and the other AI crawlers and fetches your homepage with each one's real user-agent — the CDN challenge that robots.txt cannot show.
Blocking PerplexityBot removes you from Perplexity's answers and citations. Perplexity also documents Perplexity-User for fetches made on a person's behalf.
Add a group for it: User-agent: PerplexityBot on one line and Allow: / on the next. If a User-agent: * group has a Disallow, the named group takes precedence for PerplexityBot.
User-agent: PerplexityBot then Disallow: /. Perplexity documents that PerplexityBot honours robots.txt.
Perplexity publishes its IP ranges as a feed at https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json. A request claiming to be PerplexityBot from an address outside those ranges is an impostor.
The free crawler check reads your robots.txt per bot and fetches your homepage with each one's real user-agent.