PerplexityBot

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name
PerplexityBot
operator
Perplexity
purpose
search
ua_substring
PerplexityBot
robots_token
PerplexityBot
respects_robots
yes
verify
published IP ranges (perplexity.ai publishes perplexitybot ranges)
notes
Indexes pages so they can be cited as sources in Perplexity answers.
canonical_name
PerplexityBot
user_agent_token
PerplexityBot
ua_full
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
bot_type
search-index
bot_type_extension
opt_out_mechanism
robots.txt disallow (User-agent: PerplexityBot); Perplexity recommends ALLOWing it to appear in results
published_ip_range_url
https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json
asn
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json
reverse_dns_suffix
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
supports_web_bot_auth
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
signature_agent_domain
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
jwks_url
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
verification_methods
published-IP-range
crawl_traffic_share
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
targeted_content_type
HTML, text
documentation_url
https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
first_seen_date
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
last_verified_date
2026-06-15
block_vs_allow_recommendation
allow — Perplexity explicitly recommends allowing PerplexityBot so your pages can be cited as sources; blocking forfeits citation/referral.
citation_referral_value
high (cites sources in Perplexity answers and links them)
cloudflare_verified_category
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/perplexitybot
status
active
triples
["PerplexityBot","operated_by","Perplexity"] ["PerplexityBot","has_bot_type","search-index"] ["PerplexityBot","verified_via","published-IP-range"]
attribute_sources
{"claims":["user_agent_token","robots_token","published_ip_range_url","documentation_url","respects_robots","block_vs_allow_recommendation"],"source":"https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}

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