Perplexity's search crawler. Perplexity recommends allowing it plus its published IP ranges; it is not used to train foundation models.
Almost never block
PerplexityBot builds and refreshes the index behind Perplexity's AI answers. Blocking it is the most expensive mistake in AI SEO: you disappear from Perplexity citations while your training decision stays completely separate.
If you need to protect specific sections (pricing, docs), use path-scoped rules instead of a blanket Disallow: /.
User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: /
Official source Operator documentation — last verified against operator docs 2026-09-12
https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
"Should you block it?" below is our own interpretation, not the operator's recommendation.
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