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Perplexity MCP Server

Provides real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity APIs for MCP clients.

Installation
Add the following to your MCP client configuration file.

Configuration

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexityai-modelcontextprotocol": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8080/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "PERPLEXITY_PROXY": "https://your-proxy-host:8080",
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "your_key_here",
        "PERPLEXITY_TIMEOUT_MS": "600000"
      }
    }
  }
}

Available tools

perplexity_search

Direct web search using the Perplexity Search API; returns ranked results with metadata.

perplexity_ask

General-purpose conversational AI with real-time web search using sonar-pro model.

perplexity_research

Deep, comprehensive research using sonar-deep-research for thorough analysis.

perplexity_reason

Advanced reasoning and problem-solving using sonar-reasoning-pro for complex tasks.