What is PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot is Perplexity's indexing crawler. It finds the sites Perplexity can show and link to in its search results.
- Operator
- Perplexity
- Class
- Crawls to index pages for search
- Verification
- Published networksDevTune checks that each request comes from Perplexity's own network, using the address ranges, DNS names or network routes Perplexity publishes. A request it can't match isn't counted as verified.
On your site
It requests pages to keep an index current, not to answer a question someone is asking right now. AI Traffic recognises and verifies its requests, and keeps them out of the training-crawl and answer-fetch counts.
AI Traffic setup
Connect a crawler sensor (Cloudflare pull, edge middleware or a Vercel log drain) to see which pages PerplexityBot requests on your site.
Set up AI Traffic