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Perplexity bot access test

Enter a URL and Leadee checks robots.txt for Perplexity's two documented bots — PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User — then live-fetches the homepage as PerplexityBot to tell a robots.txt rule apart from a firewall or CDN block. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Perplexity.

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1 of 2 blocked

  • PerplexityBot: blocked by firewall (robots.txt allows it)
  • Perplexity-User: allowed (robots.txt only)

Example result

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Leadee is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Perplexity. “Perplexity”, “PerplexityBot” and the other bot names on this page are Perplexity's own, used only to describe what this tool measures.

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What does it check?

  • robots.txt rule for PerplexityBot and

    robots.txt rule for PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User

  • A live fetch with the PerplexityBot user

    A live fetch with the PerplexityBot user agent, to catch a WAF/CDN block robots.txt would not show

  • Whether PerplexityBot is blocked, and

    Whether PerplexityBot is blocked, and whether the block is robots.txt, a firewall, or neither

What does a result look like?

1 of 2 blocked

  • PerplexityBot: blocked by firewall (robots.txt allows it)
  • Perplexity-User: allowed (robots.txt only)

Sample from a real run, 10 Nov 2026.

How do I read and fix the result?

PerplexityBot is the crawler that surfaces sites in Perplexity's search results; Perplexity says it is not used to train foundation models. A PerplexityBot block is the row that matters for being cited. Perplexity-User fetches a page when a user asks, and Perplexity says it generally ignores robots.txt, so its robots.txt row is informational.

  1. Enter the URL you want to check.

  2. Read the robots.txt verdict for both bots and the live-fetch result for PerplexityBot.

  3. If PerplexityBot is blocked by robots.txt, update the rule; if blocked by a firewall/CDN, allow-list its published IP ranges there.

  4. Re-run the test after you change anything, to confirm the block is gone.

Who is it for?

An engineer in a hard hat and safety vest reading a tablet on the shop floor

Manufacturers

Product and spec pages AI engines need to parse correctly.

Three consultants reviewing a document on a tablet

Professional services firms

Service pages that need clear Organization and entity markup.

A businessman in a suit shaking hands with a supplier in an office

B2B suppliers

Catalogue and partner pages AI crawlers must be able to read.

What are the limits?

Good to know

What are the limits?

The live fetch spoofs the PerplexityBot User-Agent from Leadee's own server; Perplexity publishes its IP ranges (perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json), so a firewall that verifies by IP may treat the real bot differently. Perplexity-User is not live-fetched.

Questions

Is this tool affiliated with or endorsed by Perplexity?

No. Leadee is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Perplexity. PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User are Perplexity's own bot names, documented at docs.perplexity.ai.

Does PerplexityBot train AI models?

Perplexity documents PerplexityBot as the crawler that surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search, and says it is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models.

Can robots.txt block Perplexity-User?

Perplexity says Perplexity-User generally ignores robots.txt, because a user asked for that page. Leadee still shows the rule your file sets for it, but a firewall rule is the only reliable block — and blocking it also stops Perplexity from reading the page a user asked about.

My robots.txt allows PerplexityBot — why would it still be blocked?

A firewall, CDN or bot-management rule can block the request before it reaches your server. The live fetch catches that case; the fix is an allow-list rule for Perplexity's published IP ranges at the firewall/CDN, not a robots.txt change.

Can GEO guarantee results?

No. AI answer engines change their output frequently, and no vendor — including Leadee — can guarantee a ranking or a mention. Leadee publishes confidence intervals on every metric so you can see how much a result can vary run to run.

How does Leadee measure AI visibility?

Leadee runs your prompt set against each AI engine on a weekly to daily schedule, depending on plan, through official vendor APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, Anthropic, DataForSEO) — never by scraping consumer chat interfaces — and reports mention rate, citation rate, average position, share of voice and sentiment with a 95% confidence interval.

Who do I talk to?

Email support@leadee.ai or use Talk to an expert at https://leadee.ai/contact-sales — the Netbase JSC team behind Leadee replies by email or WhatsApp — or WhatsApp the CEO directly at https://wa.me/84937869689.

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