MCP MCP server · io.github.perplexityai
io.github.perplexityai/mcp-server
Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API
created 2026-02-16updated 2026-02-16read 2026-09-15
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This is an MCP server from Perplexity's API platform, recorded under the name io.github.perplexityai/mcp-server. According to the registry entry it has moved and is now maintained as ai.perplexity/mcp-server, and it provides real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API over the stdio transport. The listing records no tool names, so what specific tools it exposes cannot be read from the material.
You reach for it when you want MCP-connected clients to perform live web search and research through Perplexity's API.
Use it to
- Run real-time web searches from an MCP client
- Perform reasoning tasks via Perplexity's API
- Conduct research queries through the MCP server
- Connect a client over stdio to Perplexity
For Developers connecting MCP clients to Perplexity's API
- Runs
- installed — on your machine
- Transport
- stdio
- Packaged as
- npm:@perplexity-ai/mcp-server
- Install
- npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server
- Version
- 0.7.1
- Last release
- 2026-02-16
topicsmcpsearchapiresearchwebperplexity