PerplexityBot — What It Is and How to Handle It

PerplexityBot crawls websites to provide real-time answers for Perplexity AI, an AI-powered search engine that cites sources in its responses.

Operator: Perplexity | Type: AI Training | Category: AI Crawler

PerplexityBot is classified as an AI crawler. It accesses your content for AI-related purposes. If you want to protect your content from being used without compensation, consider blocking or monetizing access from this crawler with Centinel.

Centinel automatically detects PerplexityBot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.