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Perplexity MCP Server

Perplexity MCP Server

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About Perplexity MCP Server

An MCP server for the Perplexity API, intended for MCP clients that need Perplexity chat completions with citations. Its listed tool is `ask_perplexity`; long processing times may cause Claude Desktop to time out.

Key features

  1. 01Requests Perplexity chat completions
  2. 02Returns citations with responses

Use cases

  1. 01Getting cited responses through an MCP client
  2. 02Querying Perplexity as part of an MCP workflow

MCP support

Exposes the `ask_perplexity` tool to MCP clients for requesting Perplexity chat completions with citations. The README notes that long processing times can cause Claude Desktop to time out.

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Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexity": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-perplexity"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Run commanduvx mcp-server-perplexity
Environment variables to set
PERPLEXITY_API_KEYSecret

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages
pypimcp-server-perplexity

Tools

No tool list yet

Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.

Details

From the project README

Perplexity MCP Server

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MCP Server for the Perplexity API.

:warning: Limitations:

  • The Claude Desktop client may timeout if Perplexity processing takes too long
  • This issue might be resolved if Claude Desktop implements support for long running operations and progress reporting in the future
  • Implementation updates to handle these features will be made if they become available

Perplexity Server MCP server

Components

Tools
  • ask_perplexity: Request chat completion with citations from Perplexity

Quickstart

Install
Claude Desktop
  • On macOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
  • On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
"mcpServers": {
  "Perplexity": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "mcp-server-perplexity"
    ],
    "env": {
      "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "your-perplexity-api-key"
    }
  }
}

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