MCP Server

Perplexity API Platform MCP Server

ai.perplexity/mcp-server

What is the Perplexity API Platform MCP server?

Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@perplexity-ai/mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

AI-agent product catalog: search, lookup & purchase routing over verified merchant data.

Read-only account intelligence for Customer Success and Account Management teams.

Active

Breaks a hard question or decision into checkable sub-questions, grounds each to a real tool.

AI-native digital asset management: semantic search, generative image edits, and CDN delivery.

Image processing for AI agents: resize, convert, compress, crop, and web-ready AI-generated images.

Delegate tasks between AI agents on different platforms and collect the results.