PerplexityBot
AI training crawlerAI search or answering bot
Identification
- User-Agent token
- PerplexityBot
- Published IP ranges
- 8
Requests claiming this User-Agent are verified against the operator's published ranges.
robots.txt behaviour
- Honours robots.txt
- No
- Honours crawl-delay
- Unknown
- Honours Allow rules
- Unknown
- Reads Sitemap directives
- Unknown
Observed activity
- Distinct IPs observed
- 9
- TLS fingerprints observed
- 2
- First seen
- 2026-05-21
- Last seen
- 2026-08-09
Aggregated across traffic monitored by urlcap. Updated continuously.
Where it crawls from
Top countries (by distinct IPs)
US
9
Top networks
Unknown network
9
Verify PerplexityBot on your own traffic
One API call checks a visitor's IP against published ranges, reverse DNS and TLS fingerprints — so spoofed User-Agents don't fool you.