PerplexityBot

PerplexityBot crawls and indexes web content that Perplexity’s search product may cite when answering user queries. Perplexity’s own documentation states this crawler respects robots.txt rules, and recommends allowing PerplexityBot in your site’s robots.txt file if you want your content to be discoverable in Perplexity’s search results.

Site-owner controls

Disallowing PerplexityBot removes this content from consideration when Perplexity’s search product cites sources in its AI-generated answers — and, unlike Perplexity-User, this rule is actually honoured, since Perplexity’s documentation confirms PerplexityBot respects robots.txt. It does not affect Perplexity-User, the separate user-triggered fetcher Perplexity documents, which generally ignores robots.txt and operates independently of indexing decisions. See /limitations for what a robots.txt rule can and cannot guarantee.

Related crawler

Perplexity also documents Perplexity-User, a separate user-triggered crawler that fetches a specific page in direct response to a user’s request inside a Perplexity product. CrawlPact reports these as distinct rows in the crawler matrix because they serve different purposes.

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /