Perplexity API Platform
Perplexity's own MCP server for its API platform.
What it does
Perplexity's own MCP server for its API platform. It gives an AI client four tools: a direct web search through the Search API that returns ranked results with dates, a quick conversational answer, a reasoning tool for harder analytical questions, and a deep research tool for long reports that can run for minutes; the last three use presets of Perplexity's Agent API. Perplexity hosts it at api.perplexity.ai/mcp, reached over Streamable HTTP with an API key, and it can also run locally from npm, behind a corporate proxy, or self-hosted in HTTP mode with Docker.
Capabilities
- Search the web with recency and domain filters
- Answer questions with live web search
- Reason through complex analytical questions
- Run deep research that produces detailed reports
Install
- Run this to add it to Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http perplexity https://api.perplexity.ai/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
From the project's documentation · Add to a config file with the config builder
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | |
| Tools | Perplexity, Web search | |
| Publisher | Perplexity | source |
| Official status | OfficialPerplexity's docs document the server and link the perplexityai repository | source |
| Connection | Local or remote | source |
| Can change data | No | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Yes | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Visual Studio Code, Codex, Devin Desktop | source |
| Licence | MIT | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Oct 21, 2026Version 1.2.12,620 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository Website npm: @perplexity-ai/mcp-server |
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Also listed under: Web search
Sources
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol · Backs: AI clients, Connection, Needs an API key or sign-in, Activity, LicenceNov 10, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol · Backs: LicenceNov 12, 2026
- Web pagedocs.perplexity.ai · Backs: Official status, PublisherNov 12, 2026
- MCP Registry entryai.perplexity/mcp-server · Backs: ConnectionNov 10, 2026
- npm package recordnpmjs.com/package/@perplexity-ai/mcp-serverNov 10, 2026