The free audit asks Perplexity a handful of questions a buyer of yours might ask, and shows whether it cites you.
Perplexity says it searches the internet in real time when you ask a question, gathering information from sources as it answers.
Each answer carries numbered citations that link to the original sources.
PerplexityBot is the crawler that surfaces and links websites in Perplexity's results. Perplexity recommends allowing it in robots.txt and permitting its published IP ranges.
Perplexity-User fetches a page when a user's question needs it, and Perplexity says it generally ignores robots.txt because a user asked.
How we ask
We put each tracked question to Perplexity through DataForSEO's LLM Responses API, using the sonar model with web search on, and read the sources the answer cites. That is the engine's API, not a signed-in session in the Perplexity app, so an answer can differ from the one a person sees.
How often
Every 7 days per question, spread across that window so a domain's checks do not all land on one day. On trial accounts, scheduled checks pause after 14 days without a sign-in and resume on the next visit.
Each check records
| Plan | Tracked questions per domain | Checks a month, all engines |
|---|---|---|
| free trial | 25 | 300 |
| Starter | 50 | 500 |
| Growth | 100 | 1,200 |
| Scale | 100 | 4,000 |
Past the monthly budget, the questions checked longest ago go first and the rest wait for the next cycle.
Vendor sources checked 2026-09-24