PerplexityBot

Perplexity · AI search indexer

Surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results. Perplexity says it is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models.

User-agent contains

PerplexityBot

robots.txt token

PerplexityBot

Respects robots.txt

Yes, per operator docs

Official IP ranges

8 prefixes

How to verify PerplexityBot

Matching the user agent isn't enough, because any client can send it. A real PerplexityBot request comes from an IP address inside Perplexity's published list:

• https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json
  8 prefixes · list dated 2025-02-07 · fetched 2026-10-21

The quickest way to check a whole log is our free log checker. It runs in your browser and splits PerplexityBot requests into real and fake.

107.20.236.150/32
3.224.62.45/32
18.210.92.235/32
3.222.232.239/32
3.211.124.183/32
3.231.139.107/32
18.97.1.228/30
18.97.9.96/29

Block or allow PerplexityBot in robots.txt

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

Use Allow: / instead to explicitly permit it, or build a full file with the AI robots.txt generator. robots.txt is a request, not a lock: it only works for bots that honor it, and only real PerplexityBot traffic would.

Source: Perplexity documentation