perplexity.ai
All blocked
Every URL under perplexity.ai that we can reach a verdict on — 8 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://perplexity.ai, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 90 tests have been run under this domain since 2023-01-20, the most recent on 2026-07-30.
The site itself
http://perplexity.aiBlockedhttps://perplexity.aiBlockedhttps://www.perplexity.aias of 2026BlockedPages and subdomains (5)
https://perplexity.ai/cdn-cgi/traceas of 2026Blockedhttps://API.perplexity.aiBlockedhttps://labs.perplexity.aias of 2026Blockedhttps://www.perplexity.ai/cdn-cgi/traceBlockedhttps://labs.perplexity.ai/cdn-cgi/traceas of 2026BlockedAbout perplexity.ai and the Great Firewall
Every URL under perplexity.ai that we can reach a verdict on — 8 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://perplexity.ai, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 90 tests have been run under this domain since 2023-01-20, the most recent on 2026-07-30.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks perplexity.ai. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
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Most-blocked .ai domainsEvery tested URL under perplexity.ai
Each URL's status is its verdict over the last 90 days, the same one its own page headlines.