# PerplexityBot

> Builds Perplexity's search index. Perplexity is citation-heavy by product design, so inclusion here converts to referral traffic more directly than most AI surfaces.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Perplexity |
| category | AI search crawlers |
| robots.txt token | `PerplexityBot` |
| user-agent contains | `PerplexityBot` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | published IP ranges |
| published IP ranges | https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json |
| prefixes mirrored | 8 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

You stop being indexed and cited by Perplexity, and lose the referral clicks its citations produce.

## Full user-agent string

```
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/perplexitybot.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt