An MCP server that provides web search capabilities using Perplexity's API.
perplexity-mcp source profile. From the maintainer documentation: “An MCP server that provides web search capabilities using Perplexity's API.”
The project provides a local client configuration using node. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
The example declares PERPLEXITY_API_KEY, PERPLEXITY_MODEL. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
{
"mcpServers": {
"perplexity-server": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"/absolute/path/to/perplexity-mcp/build/index.js"
],
"env": {
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "YOUR_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY",
"PERPLEXITY_MODEL": "sonar"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
| PERPLEXITY_MODEL | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
Retrieve public web pages as readable Markdown with the reference Fetch MCP server, including pagination for longer responses.
Use Firecrawl MCP to retrieve website content and extract information for research through Firecrawl’s API-backed web tools.
Compare web scraping, crawling and SERP API pricing and limits against your workload and budget
Get any company's OpenStatus status page as clean JSON — monitors, components and live status.
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Enables AI agents and LLMs to interact with the web and extract information from web pages via the RAG Web Browser Actor.