Perplexity-Shop
Perplexity-Shop is a recognized web agent operated by Perplexity. The exact behavior depends on context, watch the request pattern for a few hours before making a decision.
If volume is significant, rate-limit first and observe. Outright blocks should be reserved for agents that misbehave repeatedly.
See Perplexity-Shop on your own site
Match the User-Agent header on incoming requests against the pattern below.
regex
Verify by IP
For higher confidence, also verify the source IP against the operator's published ranges. UA strings can be spoofed; IP ownership is harder to fake.
Renders JavaScript
No
IP verification
Published IP ranges
Crawl frequency
Variable
Honors robots.txt
Yes
Honors Crawl-delay
Varies
Perplexity runs 7 bots in total. Each one is a separate user-agent so you can allow or block them independently.
Agentic Browser
3Agentic Commerce
2- Perplexity-ShopYou are here
- Perplexity-Commerce
Live-Fetch AI
1AI Search Index
1Should I let Perplexity-Shop through?
Watch your logs for a week first. Observe before acting. Volume and request pattern matter more than the user-agent string.
Does blocking Perplexity-Shop affect my Google rankings?
No. Perplexity-Shop is not a search-engine crawler. Your ranking on Google or Bing is unaffected by what you do here.
How do I confirm a request is really from Perplexity-Shop?
Two checks. The User-Agent header should match a known Perplexity-Shop string, and the request's source IP should fall inside Perplexity's published ranges. The User-Agent alone is trivially spoofable, so the IP check is what gives you confidence. Perplexity publishes the ranges so you can validate at the CDN or edge.
What's the best way to understand what Perplexity-Shop is doing on my site?
Look at which URLs it hits, how often, and what time of day. The request pattern usually tells you whether it's building an index, watching for a specific change, or trying to pull data in bulk. The User-Agent name alone rarely tells the full story.
How is Perplexity-Shop different from Perplexity's other bots?
Perplexity splits work across multiple user-agents so site owners can decide on each one independently. Training crawlers, live-fetch agents, search indexers, and agentic browsers each get their own name. Worth scanning the rest of the Perplexity family above to see which ones actually matter for your site.
What's the cleanest way to control Perplexity-Shop?
Two layers. Robots.txt for the polite crawlers that read it, and rules at your CDN or edge for the ones that don't. Rankly's Agent Experience handles both from a single config, so you can allow, block, rate-limit, or serve a stripped-down version per bot. Agent Analytics handles the observation half so you know which bots are actually worth a rule.
Verify everything above against the operator's own documentation.