Bot Directory Record
Perplexity-User 1.0
Review firstPerplexity-User 1.0 is an AI agent from Perplexity AI used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access; it appears in server logs as `Perplexity-User/1.0`.
- Operator
- Perplexity AI
- Family
- Perplexity
- Type
- Ai User Agent
- Source type
- Official
- Last checked
- 2026-06-23
User-Agent Signal
Perplexity AIPerplexity-User/1.0
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: Perplexity-User/1.0
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Handling Guidance
DependsUse this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.
Perplexity-User 1.0 is used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
Intelligence Details
Public record fields- Operator
- Perplexity AI
- Family
- Perplexity
- Type
- Ai User Agent
- Purpose
- User Initiated Ai Fetching
- Identity type
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Last verified
- 2026-06-23
- Last checked
- 2026-06-23
- Source type
- Official
- Verification
- Verify Perplexity-User 1.0 by matching `Perplexity-User/1.0` to Perplexity AI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- Perplexity-User 1.0 has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Notes
- Perplexity-User 1.0 is an AI agent from Perplexity AI used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
Perplexity-User/1.0; related patterns includeperplexity-user-1-0; Perplexity-User 1.0. - Perplexity-User 1.0 is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
- Perplexity-User 1.0 has context-dependent robots.txt behavior because some requests may be user-triggered, product-triggered, or handled differently by the operator.
- Perplexity-User 1.0 should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
- Perplexity-User 1.0 belongs to the Perplexity bot family.
Evidence and Source
- Verify Perplexity-User 1.0 by matching `Perplexity-User/1.0` to Perplexity AI evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Perplexity-User 1.0 traffic is primarily detected by the `Perplexity-User/1.0` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `perplexity-user-1-0; Perplexity-User 1.0`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Perplexity AI infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Perplexity-User 1.0 is used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
- Perplexity-User 1.0 has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
Use in Botcrawl Edge
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