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Perplexity-User

Fetches a page when someone asks Perplexity a question. Here is how to recognise it, verify it, and allow or block it.

Company
Perplexity
Product
Perplexity
Why it visits
Answering someone right now
How to verify
Published IP list
User-agent contains
Perplexity-User

How to tell a real Perplexity-User from a fake

  1. The user-agent contains Perplexity-User. On its own this proves nothing: fakes copy it.
  2. The visit’s IP address is inside Perplexity’s published list (perplexity-user, below). If it isn’t, it’s a fake.

Check a Perplexity-User visit

IP ranges: perplexity-user

4 ranges · updated 12 Oct 2026 · source www.perplexity.ai

Show all 4 ranges
44.208.221.197/32 34.193.163.52/32 18.97.21.0/30 18.97.43.80/29

Recent changes to these ranges

No changes recorded yet. When a company adds or removes ranges, it shows up here (lists are checked every day).

Allow or block Perplexity-User in robots.txt

Block it everywhere:

User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /

Allow it everywhere:

User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: /

This bot fetches pages for people asking Perplexity right now. Blocking it can stop your pages being opened or cited in its answers. Fake bots ignore robots.txt: block them by address in your firewall instead.