{
  "id": "perplexity-mcp-server",
  "name": "Perplexity MCP Server",
  "category": "mcp-servers",
  "summary": "Official MCP server for the Perplexity API Platform giving agents real-time web search, reasoning and research via the Agent and Search APIs.",
  "description": "Hosted remote server over Streamable HTTP, or run locally with `npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server`. Also packaged as a Claude Code plugin and an Agent Plugin.",
  "url": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/integrations/mcp-server",
  "repo": "https://github.com/perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol",
  "tags": [
    "mcp",
    "web-search",
    "research",
    "remote-mcp"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "mcp_endpoint": "https://api.perplexity.ai/mcp",
    "auth": "api-key",
    "notes": "Send the Perplexity API key as Authorization: Bearer <key>."
  },
  "related": [
    "perplexity-api",
    "agent-plugins"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol",
    "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/integrations/mcp-server"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-12",
  "updated": "2026-10-12",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-12",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Perplexity",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/perplexity-mcp-server/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/perplexity-mcp-server.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/perplexity-mcp-server.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/mcp-servers/perplexity-mcp-server.json"
  }
}