# What is PerplexityBot?

> PerplexityBot (Perplexity): what it does, how it helps your site show up in AI products, and how to test access on your own URL.

Canonical: https://crawlwise.site/learn/crawler/perplexitybot

AI crawler · retrieval · Perplexity

Perplexity's index crawler. Answers include citations, and this bot is how your pages get into that index.

### How this helps you show up

If you want Perplexity to recommend or cite you, this bot needs a clean 200 response. Strong headlines and factual opening paragraphs matter because the answer often pulls from the top of the page.

### If it cannot reach your page

Perplexity answers without you in the source list — your competitor's page may sit there instead.

### The facts

**robots.txt token**

PerplexityBot

**Owner**

Perplexity

**Product it serves**

Perplexity

**Category**

retrieval — indexed so an answer can cite it

**Training opt-out**

Retrieval / user fetch — usually keep open for citations

**User agent as sent**

`Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)`

robots.txt is a request, not a lock. Our checker fetches your page as PerplexityBot and reports what actually came back — status code, challenge page, or real HTML.

### Check your site in a minute

The [AI crawler checker](https://crawlwise.site/tools/ai-crawler-check) tests PerplexityBot plus the other answer-engine bots on one URL. No account. Want robots.txt logic only? Use the [robots.txt tester](https://crawlwise.site/tools/robots-tester).

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