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title: "What is PerplexityBot? Perplexity's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Perplexity crawler that keeps its answer and search index fresh. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/perplexitybot
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# PerplexityBot

by Perplexity

AI indexing AI UA + IP range

Builds the index an AI assistant searches when it needs to find and cite a source.

Perplexity crawler that keeps its answer and search index fresh.

## What it usually means

Perplexity is indexing this page so it can cite it in future answers.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`perplexitybot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: PerplexityBot`

Free tools

[Verify a PerplexityBot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=perplexitybot) [Check if your site allows PerplexityBot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json](https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json)

[Perplexity's page for PerplexityBot](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers)

## Sources

-   [Perplexity crawler docs](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json)

## More from Perplexity

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Perplexity-User

User-triggered fetches for Perplexity answers and source citations.

](/bot-directory/perplexity-user)

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## See if PerplexityBot has visited your site

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