AI BOTS · PERPLEXITY
Perplexity-User
Fetches pages a Perplexity user asked about; Perplexity says it generally ignores robots.txt.
- Fetches when a person asks
- Can be verified
- Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
- VerifiableIdentityIP ranges
- User-ledrobots.txtFetches when a person asks
- PurposeUser-directed fetchFor an AI product
- TokenPerplexity-UserUse it in a User-agent line
robots.txt
It fetches a page because a person asked. The operator says robots.txt may not apply, so block it at the server or CDN if you need to.
Block Perplexity-User
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /Allow Perplexity-User
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /Quick facts
- robots.txt token
Perplexity-User- User agent contains
- Perplexity-User
- Operator
- Perplexity
- Category
- AI bots
- Purpose
- User-directed fetch
- robots.txt
- User-triggered
- Verification
- Can be verified
- Documentation
- docs.perplexity.ai · checked 28 Oct 2026
If you block it
The assistant cannot read your page when a person asks it to.
Check a visit is real
- Published IP ranges: www.perplexity.ai/perplexity-user.json
Where this comes from
The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.
Registry version 2026-10-29.1
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