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Perplexity-User

Perplexity's assistant acting for a person.

Operator
Perplexity
Type
Assistant acting for a person
In the user agent
Perplexity-User
robots.txt token
Perplexity-User
Follows robots.txt
says it does not follow robots.txt
Official documentation
docs.perplexity.ai
Checked on
2026-11-04

What is Perplexity-User?

Perplexity-User is Perplexity's assistant acting for a person. It fetches a page because someone asked an AI assistant a question right now. Each visit is a person waiting for an answer that may mention you.

The operator's description: Fetches pages when a Perplexity user asks a question; generally ignores robots.txt. (docs.perplexity.ai)

How do I block or allow Perplexity-User?

With robots.txt, using the token Perplexity-User. Perplexity says it does not follow robots.txt. To block the whole site:

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: every visit is a person asking an assistant for something; blocking takes you out of those answers.

How do I see whether Perplexity-User visits my site?

In your server or CDN access logs, look for Perplexity-User 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 Perplexity-User came, which pages it read and what that brought you.

How do I know it is really Perplexity-User?

Perplexity publishes Perplexity-User's IP addresses at https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json. A visit that claims to be Perplexity-User from outside those ranges is spoofed.

Knocklog runs this check on every visit and separates the genuine agent from impostors.

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