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Perplexityai MCP Server

Perplexityai MCP Server is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. The official MCP server implementation for the Perplexity API Platform. It has 2,589 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server.

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Install Perplexityai MCP Server

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexityai-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@perplexity-ai/mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio perplexityai-mcp-server -- npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexityai-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@perplexity-ai/mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "perplexity_api_key",
      "description": "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "perplexityai-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@perplexity-ai/mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "${input:perplexity_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
PERPLEXITY_API_KEYsecretNoShown in the README's example configuration.

Tools (2)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • medium

    4000

  • high

    8000

About Perplexityai MCP Server

The official MCP server implementation for the Perplexity API Platform, providing AI assistants with real-time web search, reasoning, and research capabilities through the Agent API and the Search API.

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How do I install the Perplexityai MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Perplexityai MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (PERPLEXITY_API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Perplexityai MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 21, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.