Perplexity MCP Server

MCP Server for the Perplexity API.

: Limitations:
The Claude Desktop client may timeout if Perplexity processing takes too long
This issue might be resolved if Claude Desktop implements support for long running operations and progress reporting in the future
Implementation updates to handle these features will be made if they become available

Components

Tools

ask_perplexity: Request chat completion with citations from Perplexity

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On macOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

"mcpServers": {
  "Perplexity": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "mcp-server-perplexity"
    ],
    "env": {
      "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "your-perplexity-api-key"
    }
  }
}

Deploy Server

HTTP connection URL

security – no known vulnerabilities

license - permissive license

quality - confirmed to work

How are these scores calculated?

remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

Tools

ask_perplexity

MCP server that enables Claude to request chat completions with citations from the Perplexity API.

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Components

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Quickstart

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Claude Desktop

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