An MCP server for the Perplexity for use with Claude Code and Claude Desktop, giving you enhanced search and reasoning capabilties.
Perplexity MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. An MCP server for the Perplexity for use with Claude Code and Claude Desktop, giving you enhanced search and reasoning capabilties.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Perplexity API written in Go. This server enables AI assistants like Claude (Code and Desktop) and Cursor to seamlessly access Perplexity's powerful search and reasoning capabilities directly from their interfaces.
The Perplexity MCP Server acts as a bridge between AI assistants and the Perplexity API, allowing them to:
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
You will need one environment variable: PERPLEXITY_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. It is maintained by Alcova-AI; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
2. Add the Perplexity MCP server:
```diff
{
"mcpServers": {
+ "perplexity-mcp": {
+ "command": "perplexity-mcp",
+ "args": [
+ "--model",
+ "sonar-pro",
+ "--reasoning-model",
+ "sonar-reasoning-pro"
+ ],
+ "env": {
+ "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "pplx-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE"
+ }
+ }
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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