Free PerplexityBot visibility checker
PerplexityBot powers Perplexity's answer engine and search citations. See whether your pages are reachable to it, and where the gaps are. No install, results in two minutes.
PerplexityBot is the User-agent token Perplexity uses for the crawler behind its answer engine. It is the bot most directly tied to whether your pages get cited in Perplexity results. If robots.txt blocks it, your site is effectively invisible to that surface.
The free checker on this page tells you the current status without changing anything. It also reports the same posture for 33+ other named AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, and more) so a marketing or SEO team can decide which ones to allow and which to block in a single review.
Frequently asked questions
- What is PerplexityBot? +
- PerplexityBot is the crawler Perplexity uses to gather pages for its answer engine. When Perplexity cites a source in an answer, the citation usually links to a page PerplexityBot was able to fetch.
- Why would I want PerplexityBot to crawl my site? +
- Perplexity uses citations as part of its answer surface. If you want your pages to appear in Perplexity answers, PerplexityBot needs to be able to reach them. A blocking robots.txt rule removes you from that surface.
- How do I check what PerplexityBot can fetch? +
- The free checker above reads your live robots.txt and shows whether PerplexityBot is allowed, denied, or unaddressed. It also shows the same posture for 30+ other named AI crawlers so you can compare.
- Does Hyperguard verify PerplexityBot is real? +
- The auditor on this page checks robots.txt only. Hyperguard's full product detects requests in real time and flags ones that claim to be PerplexityBot but do not match Perplexity's published IP ranges, so spoofed crawlers cannot impersonate the real one.
How It Works
Enter your domain
We fetch your public robots.txt — no install, no auth, no site changes.
Diff against AI bot registry
Your rules are checked against 33+ AI crawlers and agents (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Meta, ...).
Get a strategic report
Per-bot status, posture flags, and downloadable robots.txt presets you can copy-paste.