Perplexity MCP Server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | Yes | Your Perplexity API key from https://www.perplexity.ai/ |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| perplexity_search_chatA | Ask questions and get AI-powered answers with real-time web search from Perplexity AI. Use this when you need current information, facts, research, news, or any query that benefits from up-to-date web sources. Responses include citations to original sources. Best for: current events, research questions, factual queries, technical documentation lookups, and any information that requires recent or authoritative web sources. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |