A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with local Perplexica instances. This server provides tools to perform AI-powered searches
Perplexica MCP becomes available to MCP clients through the perplexica mcp mcp server. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with local Perplexica instances. This server provides tools to perform AI-powered searches using your local Perplexica installation.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with local Perplexica instances. This server provides tools to perform AI-powered searches using your local Perplexica installation.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 2 tools directly:
perplexica_search — Perform AI-powered searches with various focus modesperplexica_get_models — Get available chat and embedding modelsThe server is distributed via PyPI as git, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
Before the server will start you need to supply one environment variable: PERPLEXICA_BASE_URL. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
AI-service servers chain other models into your assistant, turning a single chat into a small production pipeline. Perplexica MCP sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — perplexica_search, perplexica_get_models — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other ai services servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| perplexica_search | Perform AI-powered searches with various focus modes |
| perplexica_get_models | Get available chat and embedding models |
{
"mcpServers": {
"perplexica": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["git"],
"env": {
"PERPLEXICA_BASE_URL": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PERPLEXICA_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
Build a programmable telecommunications stack for connecting telephony services with the Internet via a cloud-based utility.
Search built for AI, not humans — semantic web search that returns model-ready content, plus code context.
Answers, not links — delegate questions to Perplexity's search-grounded models and get cited responses back.
Give your assistant a voice — text-to-speech, voice cloning and audio tools from the ElevenLabs API.
Give your assistant a real code sandbox — isolated cloud VMs for actually running the code it writes.
The ML hub in your context window — search models, datasets, papers and run Spaces from the official server.