Perplexity bots

2 bots in the directory · Reviewed July 2026

Perplexity is an AI search engine that cites sources prominently in every answer. PerplexityBot builds its search index and respects robots.txt; Perplexity-User acts on direct user requests and is documented to generally bypass robots.txt rules.

Perplexity-User

Visits pages a Perplexity user asks about, separate from the PerplexityBot index crawler.

AI AssistantUser-triggered; robots.txt may not apply

PerplexityBot

Builds Perplexity's search index: the pool of pages its answers can cite.

AI SearchRespects robots.txt

Control every Perplexity bot at once

robots.txt lets one rule group target multiple user-agents. These snippets cover all 2 Perplexity tokens in this directory. For finer control, set rules per bot on each bot's page.

Allow all Perplexity bots

User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

Block all Perplexity bots

User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
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