AI search & answer engines
PerplexityBot / Perplexity-User
PerplexityBot surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results and is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models. The separate Perplexity-User fetcher opens pages on user request to answer a question and link the page.
Dossier
- Operator
- Perplexity
- Documentation
- docs.perplexity.ai
- robots.txt token
PerplexityBotPerplexity-User- Feeds
- search index, live answer fetch
- Follows robots.txt
- Partly, per its documentationPerplexityBot follows robots.txt; Perplexity-User 'generally ignores robots.txt rules' because a user requested the fetch. Changes take up to 24h.
- How to verify
- Published IP rangesperplexity.com
- Names in our logs
perplexitybotperplexity-user- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 4,689
- Days active
- 40 / 93
- First seen
- 23 Jul 2026
- Last seen
- 23 Oct 2026
Returningai_crawler
Identity check claimed vs verified
- verified1,982 reqofficial cidr
- claimed unverified2 reqofficial cidr
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- Content pages1,294
- Feeds & discovery11
- Machine-consumption0
806 unique materials · 305 canonical pages
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- docs.perplexity.aidocs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots