Perplexity MCP Server
Updated June 2026✓ OfficialThe Perplexity MCP server, built by Perplexity, provides the Perplexity MCP Server is the official server from Perplexity AI that brings real-time web search, reasoning, and deep research into any MCP-compatible client through the Perplexity Sonar API. It is officially maintained and best for Search.
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The Perplexity MCP Server is the official server from Perplexity AI that brings real-time web search, reasoning, and deep research into any MCP-compatible client through the Perplexity Sonar API. Unlike scrapers or search-index wrappers, it taps Perplexity's own answer engine, so Claude gets grounded, citation-backed responses drawn from live web results. The server exposes four purpose-built tools: perplexity_search returns ranked web results with snippets for lightweight lookups; perplexity_ask provides general-purpose conversational answers with real-time search using the sonar-pro model, ideal for quick everyday questions; perplexity_research runs deep, comprehensive investigations with the sonar-deep-research model for thorough analysis and detailed reports; and perplexity_reason handles advanced problem-solving and multi-step analytical tasks with the sonar-reasoning-pro model, with an optional strip_thinking parameter to control chain-of-thought output. Authentication uses a single PERPLEXITY_API_KEY from the Perplexity API dashboard. Installation is a one-line npx command with the official @perplexity-ai/mcp-server package — add it to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, or Codex, with a Docker image and HTTP transport also supported for server deployments. Because it is Perplexity's first-party implementation (2,300+ GitHub stars), the Perplexity MCP Server is the most reliable way to give an AI agent fresh, sourced answers — perfect for research assistants, fact-checking, and any workflow that needs current information the base model was never trained on.
Installation
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- npm
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- Perplexity
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