Hosting check
Who hosts perplexity.ai?
perplexity.ai is behind Cloudflare, which hides the origin host. DNS by Cloudflare. Email by Google Workspace.
Checked 16 Oct 2026 at 02:40 UTC
Server
Anycast: nearest of many locations
104.18.27.48
Cloudflare, Inc. · AS13335
🇺🇸San Francisco, United States
Checks
6 of 7 checks pass
Warnings are worth a look, but nothing is broken.
Hosting provider
Low confidence
Cloudflare
CDNOrigin host hidden. A CDN answers for this site and hides the origin server, so the real host is not visible from outside.
- CDN
Cloudflarecloudflare.com
Answers every request and forwards it to an origin server it does not reveal. The IP address below belongs to the CDN.
- Network
Owns the IP address that answered our lookup.
How we know
3 signals- NetworkAS13335Cloudflare
- Headercf-ray: a4b3b2403c180fb4-HELCloudflare
- Headerserver: cloudflareCloudflare
IP & network
104.18.27.48 · San Francisco
- IP address
- 104.18.27.48
- Network
- Cloudflare, Inc.AS13335 · hosting
- Route
- 104.18.16.0/20
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United StatesAnycast: where our lookup landed
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
This is an anycast address: many locations announce it, and each visitor reaches the nearest one. The location above is only where our lookup landed.
Coordinates, postal code and company
Geolocation describes the network's registered location, not a street address. For a data center IP the postal code and coordinates are approximate.
- Coordinates
- 37.7621,-122.3971
- Postal code
- 94107
- Country code
- US
DNS records
63 records in 7 types
- A
2 records
IPv4 addresses the name points to
- 104.18.27.48
- 104.18.26.48
- AAAA
2 records
IPv6 addresses the name points to
- 2606:4700::6812:1b30
- 2606:4700::6812:1a30
- NS
2 records
Nameservers that answer for the zone
- emerson.ns.cloudflare.com
- jessica.ns.cloudflare.com
- MX
5 records
Mail servers, lowest priority first
- 1 aspmx.l.google.com
- 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
- 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
- 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
- 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
- CAA
17 records
Certificate authorities allowed to issue certificates
- 0 iodef "mailto:security@perplexity.ai"
- 0 issue "amazon.com"
- 0 issue "comodoca.com"
- 0 issue "digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
- 0 issue "godaddy.com"
- 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
- 0 issue "pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
- 0 issue "sectigo.com"
- 0 issue "ssl.com"
- 0 issuewild "amazon.com"
- 0 issuewild "comodoca.com"
- 0 issuewild "digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
- 0 issuewild "godaddy.com"
- 0 issuewild "letsencrypt.org"
- 0 issuewild "pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
- 0 issuewild "sectigo.com"
- 0 issuewild "ssl.com"
- SOA
1 record
Zone authority: primary nameserver, admin mailbox and timers
- emerson.ns.cloudflare.com dns.cloudflare.com 2417603451 10000 2400 604800 1800
- TXT
34 records
1 SPF policy, 1 DKIM key, 29 ownership proofs, 3 other
- GOOGLE-SITE-VERIFICATION=U9G-VWUZCL2BH8KGPPCM43-J7S0YDSHLDBUDFXJGXS4
- MS=ms75545187
- PnoIs9mHAvxJ_9Hek1a4qP27oQ
- ZOOM_verify_TOGuaujNzVuFZdiK9EyxQ4
SSL certificate
- Status
- Valid certificateTrusted by browsers and covers perplexity.ai. Expires in 87 days.
- Issuer
- Let's Encrypt (YE2)
- Common name
- perplexity.ai
- Protocol
- TLSv1.3
- Valid from
- October 13, 2026 at 02:20 PM UTC
- Valid to
- January 11, 2027 at 02:20 PM UTCExpires in 87 days
Covered hostnames
3 names- *.i.perplexity.ai
- *.perplexity.ai
- perplexity.ai
Certificate chain
5 certificatesperplexity.ai
Server certificate · Issued by Let's Encrypt (YE2) · Valid to 11 Jan 2027
Let's Encrypt (YE2)
Intermediate · Issued by ISRG (Root YE) · Valid to 02 Sept 2028
ISRG (Root YE)
Intermediate · Issued by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG Root X2) · Valid to 02 Sept 2032
Internet Security Research Group (ISRG Root X2)
Intermediate · Issued by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG Root X1) · Valid to 02 Sept 2032
Internet Security Research Group (ISRG Root X1)
Root · Valid to 04 Jun 2035
Serial number and fingerprints
- Serial number
- 066444D14A143DC0D91D29954DA77D3FBEF7
- SHA-256
- 9C:F5:F2:F6:48:28:F4:98:C8:3C:04:3B:00:1A:70:3E:B7:01:DB:BB:3C:12:B2:F6:41:43:DD:D8:A3:20:A5:6B
- SHA-1
- 1F:BE:2E:C2:7F:50:BD:7C:D8:60:83:C6:CB:4E:E1:8F:F7:17:D1:6B
Domain registration
Registered 08 Jul 2022
Expires in 2,822 daysRegistration data for perplexity.ai, from the registry's RDAP or WHOIS service.
- Registrar
- GoDaddy.com, LLCIANA ID 146
- Registrant
- Domains By Proxy, LLCUS
- Registered
- 08 Jul 20224 years, 3 months old
- Expires
- 08 Jul 2034Expires in 2,822 days
- Last updated
- 12 Aug 2026
- DNSSEC
- Unsigned
- Abuse email
- abuse@godaddy.com
- Abuse phone
- +1.4806242505
Status
Nameservers
2 nameservers- jessica.ns.cloudflare.com
- emerson.ns.cloudflare.com
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