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PerplexityAI search crawler

PerplexityBot

PerplexityBot is a Perplexity crawler for surfacing and linking websites in Perplexity search results.

Needed to be found and cited in Perplexity.

Get the robots.txt rulePerplexity documentation
Is PerplexityBot allowed on your site?2 Perplexity bots

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
PerplexityBot
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
How to verify it
Published IP ranges
Last checked
18 August 2026

Should you block PerplexityBot?

Not if you want to be found in Perplexity. Disallowing it can reduce Perplexity search discovery and citation eligibility. Allowing it does not guarantee indexing, ranking, citation, or traffic.

What blocking each Perplexity bot does
Perplexity botJobIf you block it
PerplexityBotThis pageSearchDisallowing it can reduce Perplexity search discovery and citation eligibility. Allowing it does not guarantee indexing, ranking, citation, or traffic.
Perplexity-UserUser fetchA matching request is consistent with user-requested retrieval. Perplexity says this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt, and the request does not prove citation.

From Perplexity’s documentationPerplexity says PerplexityBot surfaces and links sites in its answers and is not used to train foundation models.

robots.txt
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

Asks PerplexityBot not to crawl any page. Other Perplexity bots are unaffected. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Allowing PerplexityBot creates the possibility of retrieval. To find out whether Perplexity actually cites or recommends you, track your Perplexity mentions over time.

To see why PerplexityBot access is worth checking rather than assuming, read a crawler-only fault found in the logs, fixed, and cited twelve days later.

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent. Search your own logs for PerplexityBot.

User-agentsource
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)

Version numbers change. Match the highlighted name, not the whole string.

  1. 1

    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for PerplexityBot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

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    Check the published IP ranges

    Compare the request’s source with the list Perplexity publishes. Anything outside it is not Perplexity. www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json

Is this really PerplexityBot?

Published addresses

Paste an address that claims to be PerplexityBot. It is checked against Perplexity’s published list. Nothing is stored.

Check any crawler’s address

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

How active is PerplexityBot?

Measured across the sites connected to Trakkr, 27 July 2026 to 25 October 2026.

56%

of connected sites saw PerplexityBot in the four weeks to 25 October 2026. That is 58 of 104.

100%75%50%25%56%
PerplexityBot visited between 47% and 56% of connected sites each week from 27 July 2026 to 25 October 2026.

Share of connected sites it visited each week

Rank by reach
6 of 26
Typical site, per week
400 requests
Sites reached, 13 weeks
78 of 135

Most widespread AI crawlers

Share of connected sites each one visited, last four weeks.

  1. 1OAI-SearchBot84%
  2. 2ClaudeBot84%
  3. 3GPTBot67%
  4. 4Amazonbot61%
  5. 5ChatGPT-User56%
  6. 6PerplexityBot56%
  7. 7Applebot51%
  8. 8Bytespider48%
All 26 measured crawlers
How this is measured

Finalized daily crawler summaries from sites connected to Trakkr, grouped by the crawler named in each request. Trakkr’s own site is excluded. A site counts as reached in a week when it logged at least one request from PerplexityBot. The typical figure is the median weekly requests among the sites it reached.

  • This is a sample of connected sites, not the whole web.
  • A matching user-agent does not prove the named operator sent the request.
  • Requests are not unique pages, training use or citations.
  • Crawlers seen on fewer than 10 sites are not shown. Classic search crawlers such as Googlebot are not collected on every site, so they are left out.

Questions, answered.

PerplexityBot is a Perplexity crawler for surfacing and linking websites in Perplexity search results.

Sources.

Officially documented. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

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    Perplexity crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 18 August 2026

    docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers

First verified 18 August 2026. Last source check 18 August 2026. Activity measured to 25 October 2026.

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Trakkr shows which bots, PerplexityBot included, visit which pages each day, and whether the answers they feed mention you.

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