Perplexity MCP Server

Connects AI assistants to Perplexity AI's search API, enabling natural language web search with fine-grained control over recency, citations, images, and model parameters directly from MCP clients like Claude.

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// key findings

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: PERPLEXITY_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretPERPLEXITY_API_KEY— export =pplx-your-key-here

configPERPLEXITY_MODEL— No sonar Default model for all queries

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commit: 5c3d63496bf97191048955aaaaf2f0b45bb9a4ca

code hash: c354adf7348590b244b746814f4d05a5b45207774c95a0cac35faa4300045ad1

verified: 6/22/2026, 12:52:15 PM

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