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PerplexityBot
PerplexityHonours robots.txt
Indexes pages so Perplexity can cite them. Blocking removes you from Perplexity citations, which are among the highest click-through of any AI surface.
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot
How to verify it
Perplexity publishes IP ranges at perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json.
What blocking costs
Blocking removes you from Perplexity citations, which are among the highest click-through of any AI surface.
robots.txt rule
# Block PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
# Allow everything else
User-agent: *
Allow: /Robots.txt is enough
Perplexity documents PerplexityBot as honouring robots.txt. Verify with your logs after deploying — a spoofed agent will keep coming.
Generate a full robots.txt
Pick which AI crawlers to allow or block across all 42 agents and copy the file out.
Open the generator →Other Perplexity agents