Verified Bots Directory

Directory / AI assistants

Perplexity-User

Fully verifiable

Perplexity's user-triggered fetcher, used when a user's question requires visiting a specific web page to produce an accurate answer.

Operated by Perplexity · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexPerplexity-User/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)

How to verify

Fetch the official IP range feed

curl -s https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json

IP ranges (4)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/perplexity-user.ips and /data/bots/perplexity-user.json.

18.97.21.0/30
18.97.43.80/29
34.193.163.52/32
44.208.221.197/32

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Fully verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Does not honor robots.txt

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.