Perplexity Web

About

This MCP (Model Context Protocol) server acts as a bridge, making Perplexity AI's powerful search, research, and reasoning models accessible directly within your favorite IDEs and AI coding assistants. By leveraging your existing Perplexity account's session tokens, it eliminates the need for a separate, paid API key, allowing you to seamlessly utilize Perplexity's full potential for web searches, in-depth analysis, and complex problem-solving without incurring additional API costs.

Key Features

• Provides Perplexity AI search, research, and reasoning capabilities.
• Requires no Perplexity API key, leveraging existing account session tokens.
• Integrates with popular development clients like Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and Codex.
• Offers dedicated tools for quick web searches (`perplexity_search`), deep research (`perplexity_research`), and advanced reasoning (`perplexity_reason`).
• Supports macOS and Linux on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
• 2 GitHub stars

Use Cases

• Performing quick web searches and conversational queries directly from an IDE.
• Applying advanced AI reasoning for logical problems, complex analysis, and decision-making during coding.
• Conducting deep, comprehensive research on complex topics with citations within a development workflow.