Verified Bots Directory

Directory / AI crawlers

PerplexityBot

Fully verifiable

Perplexity's crawler that indexes pages to surface and link websites in Perplexity search results. Perplexity states it is not used to train models.

Operated by Perplexity · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexPerplexityBot/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)

How to verify

Fetch the official IP range feed

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

IP ranges (8)

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

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

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Fully verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: PerplexityBot)

  • 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.