# PerplexityBot

> Perplexity · search

_The AI Crawler Registry · /crawlers/perplexitybot · [JSON](/api/crawlers/perplexitybot) · [all The AI Crawler Registry](/crawlers)_

- **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)
- **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)
- **reverse_dns_suffix:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **supports_web_bot_auth:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **signature_agent_domain:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **jwks_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **verification_methods:** published-IP-range
- **crawl_traffic_share:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **targeted_content_type:** HTML, text
- **documentation_url:** https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
- **first_seen_date:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **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)
- **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"}