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PerplexityBot

Search crawler

Perplexity's crawler for its search index. Seen on 78 of 135 sites in 13 weeks.

PerplexityBot reached 52 of 92 sites last week

Sites that got at least one PerplexityBot request each week, against every site reporting that week.

Reach56%6th of 2658 of 104 sitesLast 4 weeks
Requests2.5M6% of all crawler requests13 weeks, 78 sites
Per site400a weekMedian where it visitsLast 4 weeks

Blocking PerplexityBot can keep your pages out of Perplexity answers.

Perplexity says PerplexityBot follows robots.txt. A rule changes future crawls, not pages it already collected.

Block PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
Allow PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User agentMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)

Is it really PerplexityBot?

Anyone can send the PerplexityBot name. Requests we could check against Perplexity's addresses, 1 Aug to 14 Oct 2026.

Fakes
11.7%

of requests signed PerplexityBot did not come from Perplexity's published addresses.

Verified, 88.3%Fake, 11.7%
How to check
1Match the IP to Perplexity's listPerplexity publishes PerplexityBot's addresses at www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json.
2Read the user agent closelyOne common fake opens a bracket after Mozilla/5.0 and never closes it.
See every fake crawler

Common questions

What is PerplexityBot?

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

How do I block PerplexityBot?

Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: PerplexityBot" followed by "Disallow: /". Perplexity says PerplexityBot follows robots.txt. A rule changes future crawls, not pages it already collected.

Does blocking PerplexityBot hide me from AI?

No single bot rule hides a site from every AI product. Disallowing it can reduce Perplexity search discovery and citation eligibility. Allowing it does not guarantee indexing, ranking, citation, or traffic.