PerplexityBot
Perplexity · search
- 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"}