# Perplexity-User vs PerplexityBot

Perplexity-User and PerplexityBot compared on 9 documented fields, from 18 claims, last verified 2026-09-13.

| Field | Perplexity-User | PerplexityBot | Comparison |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | yes | yes | same |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | not_documented | same |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | yes | same |
| purpose_documented | user_fetch | search | different |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | not_documented | same |
| respects_robots_txt | no | yes | different |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | not_documented | same |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user) | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot) | different |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | not_documented | same |

## Differences

| Field | Perplexity-User statement | PerplexityBot statement |
| --- | --- | --- |
| purpose_documented | Perplexity-User visits web pages to answer questions that users ask Perplexity. | PerplexityBot surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results. |
| respects_robots_txt | Perplexity-User ignores robots.txt rules because a user requests each Perplexity-User fetch. | PerplexityBot honours robots.txt rules that webmasters set for the PerplexityBot token. |
| user_agent_string_full | Perplexity-User sends the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user). | PerplexityBot sends the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot). |

## Sources

- https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
- https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexity-user.json
- https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json