PerplexityBot
by Perplexity
Search indexes · Discovery
Indexes websites so they can be surfaced and cited in Perplexity answers.
Perplexity states that PerplexityBot is not used to train foundation models.
Crawlers that build the search indexes used by search engines and AI search features.
Control it with robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers read robots.txt before crawling. To block PerplexityBot on your whole site:
robots.txt
User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: /
Blocking AI search and answer crawlers can also remove your pages from AI answers and citations. Weigh traffic from AI assistants before blocking them. Official documentation: docs.perplexity.ai.