PerplexityBot

Safe Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: Yes

Perplexity search crawler used to surface and link websites in Perplexity search results.

Key facts

Operator
Perplexity
Family
Perplexity
Purpose
Search
User-Agent
PerplexityBot
Should you block it?
Depends
Verified
Yes
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-01

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent
PerplexityBot
robots.txt token
PerplexityBot
HTTP user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)
Aliases
Perplexity search bot

Ownership

Operator
Perplexity
Family
Perplexity
Type
Search
Purpose
Search

Verification and trust

Source type
Official
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-01
Verification
Verify the user-agent together with Perplexity's published IP ranges for PerplexityBot.

Blocking and detection

Robots

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "PerplexityBot")
Advanced server rules

Apache

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PerplexityBot [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

Nginx

if ($http_user_agent ~* "PerplexityBot") { return 403; }

Notes

PerplexityBot is a search crawler. Perplexity says it is not used to crawl content for AI foundation model training and recommends allowing it in robots.txt if you want your site to appear in Perplexity search results.

Perplexity publishes IP ranges for PerplexityBot.

Evidence and source

  • Verify the user-agent together with Perplexity's published IP ranges for PerplexityBot.