Operator

Perplexity

Perplexity runs 7 bots across 4 agent types. Each one is a separate user-agent so you can allow or block them independently.

Bot

Type

Purpose

Description

CometAgentic Browser · Agentic browser

Agentic Browser

Agentic browser

Comet is operated by Perplexity. Autonomously navigates websites, fills forms, and takes actions on behalf of a human user. Often runs a full headless browser and can perform any interaction a person could.

Comet-BotAgentic Browser · Agentic browser

Agentic Browser

Agentic browser

Comet-Bot is operated by Perplexity. Autonomously navigates websites, fills forms, and takes actions on behalf of a human user. Often runs a full headless browser and can perform any interaction a person could.

Perplexity StealthAgentic Browser · Agentic browser

Agentic Browser

Agentic browser

Perplexity Stealth is operated by Perplexity. Autonomously navigates websites, fills forms, and takes actions on behalf of a human user. Often runs a full headless browser and can perform any interaction a person could.

Perplexity-CommerceAgentic Commerce · General

Agentic Commerce

General

Perplexity-Commerce is operated by Perplexity. Autonomous browser agent specifically running shopping or checkout flows on behalf of a buyer. Volume is small today but growing fast as AI shopping assistants ship.

Perplexity-ShopAgentic Commerce · General

Agentic Commerce

General

Perplexity-Shop is operated by Perplexity. Autonomous browser agent specifically running shopping or checkout flows on behalf of a buyer. Volume is small today but growing fast as AI shopping assistants ship.

Perplexity-UserLive-Fetch AI · User-initiated

Live-Fetch AI

User-initiated

Perplexity-User is operated by Perplexity. Fetches a page in real time when an LLM is mid-answer to a user question. Traffic spikes correlate with question volume rather than crawl schedules, so it shows up unpredictably.

PerplexityBotAI Search Index · Search index

AI Search Index

Search index

PerplexityBot is operated by Perplexity. Indexes pages for AI-powered search products that cite and link back to sources. Allowing it is typically how a site becomes citable inside answer engines and LLM search.

Live data · via Cloudflare Radar

See how Perplexity's bots show up in real internet traffic

Cloudflare Radar publishes a continuously-updating view of AI bot activity across the websites Cloudflare protects. You can see which user-agents drive the most requests, how that share shifts week to week, and which industries each bot crawls hardest. The data refreshes on Cloudflare's side, so the link below is always current.

Open Cloudflare Radar AI Insights

What you'll find there

·User-agent share for every tracked AI bot, including Perplexity's
·Robots.txt and crawl-purpose breakdowns per operator
·Industry and content-type targets for each crawler
·Time-series trends going back several months