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title: "Perplexity crawlers and agents | Agent Ready Crawlers"
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# Perplexity crawlers and agents | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Perplexity in the Crawler Index: 4 crawlers and agents with tokens, purposes, verification method and block rates, read 2026-11-04.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/operator/perplexity
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# Perplexity: 4 rows

In short

Perplexity has 4 rows in the Index: PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Comet and Perplexity Computer. They cover 3 purposes: search index, live answer fetch, task agent. 2 of them have a robots.txt token and 2 publish nothing a site can verify. The most refused is PerplexityBot, disallowed at the root by 11.2 percent of top-10,000 sites.

Perplexity: 4 rows.

| Operator | Token | Purpose | Respects robots.txt | Verification | Block rate 2026-11-04 | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Perplexity | PerplexityBot | Search index | Yes | IP list | 11.2% | Profile |
| Perplexity | Perplexity-User | Live answer fetch | May not apply | IP list | 8.3% | Profile |
| Perplexity | Comet (browser assistant) no token | Task agent | No docs | None published | no token | Profile |
| Perplexity | Perplexity Computer no token | Task agent | No docs | None published | no token | Profile |

Vendor profile: [Perplexity](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/perplexity/), with its products, standards, our probes and what it does not do.

## Verification Ledger entry

Summary

Two IP lists and WAF recipes; no key directory (404 at www.perplexity.ai, 2026-11-04); nothing for Comet.

IP lists

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

Reverse DNS

publishes nothing

Key directory

publishes nothing

Cloudflare

not checked

Visa and Mastercard

Visa TAP: no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04). Mastercard Agent Pay: no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04).

## Block rates for Perplexity tokens

| Token | Refused, top 10,000 | Named | Via * | All crawled |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PerplexityBot | 11.2% | 7.9% | 3.4% | 7.9% |
| Perplexity-User | 8.3% | 4.6% | 3.7% | 5.9% |

Based on 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt; crawl of 2026-11-04.

## Sources

-   [Perplexity Crawlers](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots) read 2026-11-04
-   [perplexity.ai: perplexitybot (JSON)](https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json) read 2026-11-04
-   [perplexity.ai: perplexity user (JSON)](https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexity-user.json) read 2026-11-04
-   [verisoul.ai: perplexity comet](https://www.verisoul.ai/agents/perplexity-comet) read 2026-11-04
-   [centinelanalytica.com: ai browser agents](https://www.centinelanalytica.com/blog/ai-browser-agents) read 2026-11-04
-   [verisoul.ai: perplexity computer](https://www.verisoul.ai/agents/perplexity-computer) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04