Perplexity API Platform MCP Server

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: 6 high

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

✅

4 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

4 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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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.

configALLOWED_ORIGINS— CORS origins (comma-separated)

configBIND_ADDRESS— Network interface to bind to 0.0.0.0

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

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: dd5e0785520833ebc95d5e97c8fa68971dcae07b

code hash: a21053cc6446a62a2c774f70c509391cdf550a53489adda8da36907b98cd2c9c

verified: 4/18/2026, 6:46:32 PM

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