What is PerplexityBot?

Perplexity's search crawler. It builds the index behind Perplexity's AI search results. Intent: search index. Stores your pages so they can show up in search results.

What is the PerplexityBot user agent?

Requests from PerplexityBot carry "perplexitybot" in the User-Agent header (matching is case-insensitive). The full string includes a version number that changes over time; Perplexity's documentation lists the current one. In robots.txt, the token is PerplexityBot.

How do I verify PerplexityBot?

Perplexity publishes the IP ranges PerplexityBot uses. A request is real when its IP is inside that list. Paste an IP into HadoSEO's free bot verifier to check it against the published data.

How do I block PerplexityBot in robots.txt?

Add "User-agent: PerplexityBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt. Blocking PerplexityBot does not block Perplexity-User: each has its own token and its own rule. robots.txt is a request, not a lock: a scraper using PerplexityBot's name ignores it, which is why verification matters.

Can I see when PerplexityBot visits my site?

Yes. HadoSEO logs every PerplexityBot request by page, checks it against Perplexity's published data, and flags requests that use the name from IPs Perplexity doesn't own. For a one-off look, the free log file analyzer reads a week of your server logs in the browser.

[ search crawler · Perplexity ]

PerplexityBot: Perplexity's search crawler.

Perplexity's search crawler. It builds the index behind Perplexity's AI search results. Its intent is search index: stores your pages so they can show up in search results.

search indexverifiable by published IP ranges

IP ranges last updated Oct 25, 2026

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[ technical facts ]

operator: Perplexity
intent: search index
user agent contains: perplexitybot
robots.txt token: PerplexityBot
verification: published IP rangesverified
official IP list: www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json
ranges in registry: none loaded (source unreachable at last refresh)
last updated: Oct 25, 2026
operator docs: docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots

[ verify ]

How to verify a real PerplexityBot request.

Perplexity publishes the IP ranges PerplexityBot uses. A request is real when its IP is inside that list.

01Check the User-Agent header contains "perplexitybot" (case-insensitive). That is only a claim: anyone can send it.
02Download Perplexity's published list (https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json) and check the request IP falls inside one of its ranges.
03Inside the list: the real PerplexityBot. Outside it: a request using PerplexityBot's name from someone else's server.

Skip the lookups: the free bot verifier checks one IP against the same registry, and the log file analyzer checks every PerplexityBot request in a week of access logs. Requests that fail are flagged as spoofed, not hidden.

[ robots.txt ]

Block or allow PerplexityBot in robots.txt.

Add one of these groups to the robots.txt at your domain root. The token matches case-insensitively. Perplexity runs other crawlers with their own tokens, so a rule for PerplexityBot leaves Perplexity-User (answer fetch) untouched.

block PerplexityBot

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

allow PerplexityBot

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

robots.txt only binds crawlers that choose to follow it. A scraper sending PerplexityBot's user agent from its own servers won't, which is why HadoSEO checks the IP behind every request.

[ questions ]

PerplexityBot, answered.

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