PerplexityBot

Perplexity's search crawler. It surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results and is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models.

What happens if you block it

Your site won't be surfaced or linked in Perplexity search results.

Our take

Allow it if you want Perplexity to cite you. Blocking it doesn't opt you out of any training.

robots.txt

To block it:

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

To allow it explicitly (useful when a wider rule blocks other bots):

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

The operator's own words

PerplexityBot is designed to surface and link websites in search results on Perplexity. It is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models.Perplexity documentation, checked 2026-10-31

robots.txt allows it, but is it really getting through?

A firewall or CDN rule can reject PerplexityBot even when robots.txt welcomes it, and nothing in your CMS shows it. Our check sends a live request as PerplexityBot alongside a normal browser and a Googlebot control, so a bot-verification rule isn't mistaken for a block.

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