Perplexity MCP Server

Official MCP server for the Perplexity API Platform giving agents real-time web search, reasoning and research via the Agent and Search APIs.

Category

MCP Servers

Website

https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/integrations/mcp-server

Repository

https://github.com/perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol

Status

active

License

MIT

Maintainer

Perplexity

Added

2026-10-12

Updated

2026-10-12

Last verified

2026-10-12

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• mcp
• web-search
• research
• remote-mcp

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.

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 Platform: Perplexity's API platform with Agent, Search and Embeddings APIs for real-time, web-grounded research and Q&A.
• Agent Plugins: Vendor-neutral standard (v1.0.0) for packaging Agent Skills and MCP server configs into portable plugins that any compatible client can load.

Sources

• https://github.com/perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol
• https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/integrations/mcp-server

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)