--- title: "Perplexity and Comet: vendor profile | Am I Ready for Agents?" description: "What Perplexity's search and Comet browser do on a business's site, what Comet and Comet Plus cost and which robots.txt rules each Perplexity visitor follows." canonical: https://amireadyforagents.com/vendors/perplexity-comet site: "Am I Ready for Agents?" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendor list" --- # Perplexity and Comet: vendor profile | Am I Ready for Agents? > What Perplexity's search and Comet browser do on a business's site, what Comet and Comet Plus cost and which robots.txt rules each Perplexity visitor follows. Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/vendors/perplexity-comet Site: Am I Ready for Agents? Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 # Perplexity and Comet: what it does and what it costs ## In short Perplexity's answer engine cites and links the pages it reads, and its Comet browser, a free download for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android, runs an assistant that browses and shops in the user's own tabs. PerplexityBot follows robots.txt, while Perplexity-User generally ignores it because a person asked for the page. ## At a glance What it is Perplexity's answer engine cites and links the pages it reads, and its Comet browser runs an assistant that browses, shops and fills forms in the user's own session. Type [Agent surface](https://amireadyforagents.com/vendors/by-type/surface) Operator Perplexity Homepage [perplexity.ai](https://www.perplexity.ai/) Homepage check HTTP 200 on 5 November 2026 Last read 5 November 2026 ## What it does for your business - Read 5 Nov 2026 Perplexity's Comet page, read 5 Nov 2026, says the browser is available for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. [Comet Browser: a Personal AI Assistant (Perplexity)](https://www.perplexity.ai/comet), read 5 Nov 2026 - Read 5 Nov 2026 Perplexity's Comet page lists shopping among the assistant's tasks, with the sample request "Buy a high quality, comfortable yet cheap office chair". [Comet Browser: a Personal AI Assistant (Perplexity)](https://www.perplexity.ai/comet), read 5 Nov 2026 - 25 Aug 2025 Perplexity announced Comet Plus on 25 August 2025 as a 5 US dollar standalone subscription, included in its Pro and Max plans. [Introducing Comet Plus (Perplexity blog)](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet-plus), read 5 Nov 2026 - 25 Aug 2025 Perplexity says Comet Plus pays participating publishers on three kinds of traffic: human visits, search citations and agent actions, keeping a small portion for compute costs. Vendor claim. [Introducing Comet Plus (Perplexity blog)](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet-plus), read 5 Nov 2026 ## Detail for your web team | Read | Fact | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | 5 Nov 2026 | Perplexity's crawler docs say PerplexityBot surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results and is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models. | Perplexity Crawlers (Perplexity docs) | | 5 Nov 2026 | Perplexity's crawler docs recommend allowing PerplexityBot in robots.txt and permitting its published IP ranges for a site to appear in search results. | Perplexity Crawlers (Perplexity docs) | | 5 Nov 2026 | Perplexity's crawler docs say Perplexity-User fetches pages when a user asks a question and "generally ignores robots.txt rules" because a user requested the fetch. | Perplexity Crawlers (Perplexity docs) | | 5 Nov 2026 | Perplexity's crawler docs say robots.txt changes can take up to 24 hours to take effect, and give firewall rules for Cloudflare WAF and AWS WAF built on the published IP lists. | Perplexity Crawlers (Perplexity docs) | ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price | As of | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Perplexity search | Answer engine that cites and links the pages it reads. | No price recorded | 5 Nov 2026 | None | | Comet | A browser with an assistant that acts in the user's tabs. | Free download, 0 USD. Download offered for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. | 5 Nov 2026 | Comet Browser: a Personal AI Assistant (Perplexity) | | Comet Plus | A reader subscription whose revenue is shared with participating publishers. | Subscription, from 5 USD. Standalone price as announced 25 Aug 2025; included in Pro and Max. | 25 Aug 2025 | Introducing Comet Plus (Perplexity blog) | ## Standards it states | Standard | Status | What the page says | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AI bot rules in robots.txt | Partial | PerplexityBot follows robots.txt; Perplexity-User generally ignores robots.txt because a user requested the fetch. | Perplexity Crawlers (Perplexity docs) | ## The site's own checks | Check | Domain | Result | Date | Method | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cloudflare isitagentready.com keyless scan | perplexity.ai | 27 of 100, L1 Basic Web Presence, 4 of 15 counted checks passed | Run 5 Nov 2026 | POST https://isitagentready.com/api/scan, default All Checks profile, score = passed / counted x 100 | Source | | Ora cached score | perplexity.ai | 68 of 100, grade C | Scanned 23 Oct 2026, read 5 Nov 2026 | GET /api/score (cached) | Source | ## What it does not do - Perplexity says PerplexityBot does not collect content to train AI foundation models. - A robots.txt rule does not reliably keep Perplexity-User out; Perplexity points to firewall rules on its published IP list instead. ## Related pages on this site - [Perplexity, Comet and Perplexity shopping: what it does to your business](https://amireadyforagents.com/agents/perplexity-comet-and-shopping) - [What AI agents do on the web today](https://amireadyforagents.com/what-agents-do) - [Which AI bots and agents to let in](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/which-bots-to-allow) - [More agent surfaces](https://amireadyforagents.com/vendors/by-type/surface) - [All vendors on the list](https://amireadyforagents.com/vendors) ## Sources 1. [Comet Browser: a Personal AI Assistant (Perplexity)](https://www.perplexity.ai/comet) (perplexity.ai/comet), read 5 Nov 2026. 2. [Introducing Comet Plus (Perplexity blog)](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet-plus) (perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet-plus), read 5 Nov 2026. 3. [Perplexity Crawlers (Perplexity docs)](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers) (docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers), read 5 Nov 2026. 4. [Is Your Site Agent-Ready? (Cloudflare, isitagentready.com)](https://isitagentready.com/) (isitagentready.com), read 5 Nov 2026. 5. [Ora cached score for perplexity.ai](https://ora.ai/api/score/perplexity.ai?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=vendor) (ora.ai/api/score/perplexity.ai), read 5 Nov 2026. Last reviewed 5 November 2026 Reviewed 5 November 2026. [5 sources](#sources), each with the day it was read.