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PerplexityBot Checker

PerplexityBot · Perplexity · Last reviewed: 2026-10-01

Overview

Purpose

Indexes content for Perplexity search.

Exact user-agent token

PerplexityBot

robots.txt

Allow example

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

Block example

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

Important limitation

A robots.txt verdict describes the published rule for the tested path. It does not prove crawling, indexing, training, citations or traffic.

Frequently asked question

Does this rule control every product from the same operator?

No. Operators can publish separate user-agent tokens for training, search and user-triggered retrieval. Configure each documented token intentionally.

Official source

Perplexity documentation ↗