What is PerplexityBot?

How often is PerplexityBot impersonated?

For the median organisation, 22% of requests claiming to be PerplexityBot failed verification.

Measured between 14 July 2026 and 10 October 2026 across organisations protected by Centinel. We only publish a share when at least five organisations each saw enough of these requests. Pooled across all of their requests, the share was 9%: a few large organisations carry most of the traffic, so the median organisation is the better guide to what yours will see.

This directory measures requests between 14 July 2026 and 10 October 2026. The fake crawler report covers its own, earlier window (late June to 21 September 2026), so its figures differ from the ones here. Read it for the method.

Have a request that claims to be PerplexityBot? Check its IP address.

Should you block PerplexityBot?

Allow it if

you want Perplexity's answers to find and link your pages.

Block it if

you do not want your pages in Perplexity's search index.

What blocking changes

Your pages stop being crawled for Perplexity's search index, so they are less likely to be surfaced and linked in its answers.

To block it, add this group to your robots.txt. Perplexity documents robots.txt as the control for PerplexityBot.

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

robots.txt only asks. It does nothing against a client that ignores it or only pretends to be PerplexityBot. Stopping those takes verification at your edge.