Perplexity API Platform MCP Server

Item: Perplexity API Platform MCP Server
Rating: 64
Author: M8ven

Provides AI assistants with real-time web search, reasoning, and research capabilities through Perplexity's Sonar models and Search API. Supports quick searches, deep research, advanced reasoning, and direct web search with ranked results.

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// key findings

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Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 1 critical, 6 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

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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.

// known CVEs in dependencies1 critical6 high5 low

Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.

criticalvitest@4.0.5GHSA-5xrq-8626-4rwp

When Vitest UI server is listening, arbitrary file can be read and executed

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.21.1GHSA-345p-7cg4-v4c7

@modelcontextprotocol/sdk has cross-client data leak via shared server/transport instance reuse

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.21.1GHSA-8r9q-7v3j-jr4g

Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.21.1GHSA-w48q-cv73-mx4w

Model Context Protocol (MCP) TypeScript SDK does not enable DNS rebinding protection by default

highundici@6.20.0GHSA-f269-vfmq-vjvj

Undici: Malicious WebSocket 64-bit length overflows parser and crashes the client

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// required environment variables

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

configALLOWED_HOSTS— Additional Host header values to accept (comma-separated). Loopback hosts on PORT are always allowed. Add the public hostname when binding to 0.0.0.0. (loopback only)

configALLOWED_ORIGINS— CORS origins (comma-separated). Defaults to empty (no cross-origin browser requests). Set to an explicit allowlist (e.g. https://app.example.com) or to to allow any origin. (empty)

configBIND_ADDRESS— Network interface to bind to. Defaults to loopback. Set to 0.0.0.0 to expose on all interfaces. 127.0.0.1

configHTTPS_PROXY— If you'd rather use the standard variables, we support and HTTP_PROXY.

configHTTP_PROXY— If you'd rather use the standard variables, we support HTTPS_PROXY and .

🔐 secretPERPLEXITY_API_KEY— claude mcp add perplexity --env ="your_key_here" -- npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server

configPERPLEXITY_BASE_URL— 4. (Optional) Set custom base URL: =https://your-custom-url.com (default: https://api.perplexity.ai)

configPERPLEXITY_LOG_LEVEL— 5. (Optional) Set log level: =DEBUGINFOWARNERROR (default: ERROR)

configPERPLEXITY_PROXY— The easiest and most reliable way for Perplexity MCP is to use . For example:

configPERPLEXITY_TIMEOUT_MS— 3. (Optional) Set timeout: =600000 (default: 5 minutes)

configPORT— HTTP server port 8080

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verified: 6/17/2026, 12:45:25 PM

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