PerplexityBot
Perplexity's AI search crawler.
- Operator
- Perplexity
- In the user agent
PerplexityBot- robots.txt token
PerplexityBot- Follows robots.txt
- says it follows robots.txt
- Official documentation
- docs.perplexity.ai
- Checked on
- 2026-11-04
What is PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot is Perplexity's AI search crawler. It builds the index an AI assistant searches when it answers. If it cannot read your pages, the assistant cannot cite or recommend them.
The operator's description: Surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results.
(docs.perplexity.ai)
How do I block or allow PerplexityBot?
With robots.txt, using the token PerplexityBot. Perplexity says it follows robots.txt. To block the whole site:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: without it, the assistant cannot find your pages to cite or recommend them.
How do I see whether PerplexityBot visits my site?
In your server or CDN access logs, look for PerplexityBot in the user agent. Google Analytics does not show these visits: agents do not run its JavaScript.
Anyone can copy the name in a user agent, so counting log lines is not enough. Knocklog reads your site's traffic on any host, confirms who is who, and shows how often PerplexityBot came, which pages it read and what that brought you.
How do I know it is really PerplexityBot?
Perplexity publishes PerplexityBot's IP addresses at https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json. A visit that claims to be PerplexityBot from outside those ranges is spoofed.
Knocklog runs this check on every visit and separates the genuine agent from impostors.
Does PerplexityBot visit your site?
See in seconds how your site treats AI agents. Then connect your traffic to learn who really came.
Other Perplexity agents
- Perplexity-User Assistant acting for a person