Perplexity · Indexing

PerplexityBot

Identify PerplexityBot by its user agent. Check request identity, review robots.txt controls and track visits in Aiola Analytics.

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Key facts

User-agent token: PerplexityBot
Indexing: Crawled for AI or search indexing.
Perplexity publishes official IP ranges; verify requests against them.

What PerplexityBot is

PerplexityBot indexes pages for Perplexity search results and citations; Perplexity says it is not used for foundation-model training. Aiola classifies it as indexing because it supports a searchable retrieval index.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Indexing means crawled for ai or search indexing.

PerplexityBot user agent

Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.

Full example User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)
Case-insensitive match token
PerplexityBot

Official IP ranges

Perplexity publishes an official IP range list. This cached snapshot contains 8 CIDR prefixes, last fetched 2026-10-23. Open the live source

Official IP range snapshot
107.20.236.150/32
18.210.92.235/32
18.97.1.228/30
18.97.9.96/29
3.211.124.183/32
3.222.232.239/32
3.224.62.45/32
3.231.139.107/32

Verify a PerplexityBot request

For PerplexityBot, compare the source IP from your trusted edge or server against Perplexity’s current published prefixes.

Test one CIDR in Python (replace REQUEST_IP)
python3 -c 'import ipaddress; print(ipaddress.ip_address("REQUEST_IP") in ipaddress.ip_network("107.20.236.150/32"))'

Test every current prefix in the vendor feed and re-fetch it regularly. This cached snapshot is evidence of publication, not a permanent firewall list.

Control PerplexityBot with robots.txt

Perplexity documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic.

Allow PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Block PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

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Aiola Analytics

See every PerplexityBot visit on your site

Aiola tracks 70 AI, search and link-preview crawlers next to your human traffic. See when PerplexityBot arrives, which pages it requests and how that changes over time. Hosted Analytics needs Pro or a trial.

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