Perplexity MCP Server

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Perplexity runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 241 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 12 May 2026.

Search the web, generate AI responses, and create embeddings with real-time information

Installs per day peak 51 · avg 28 · -14% w/w

a month agotoday

241

Installs / week

pypi · mcparmory-perplexity

Stars

1 open issues

12 May 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Perplexity every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add perplexity -- uvx mcparmory-perplexity

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexity": {
      "args": [
        "mcparmory-perplexity"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.perplexity]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcparmory-perplexity"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexity": {
      "args": [
        "mcparmory-perplexity"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexity": {
      "args": [
        "mcparmory-perplexity"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Perplexity — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Perplexity?

Perplexity runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package mcparmory-perplexity was installed 241 times last week.

How do I connect Perplexity?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcparmory-perplexity straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Perplexity?

The pypi package mcparmory-perplexity was installed 241 times in the last week. Week over week that is -14%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Perplexity open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python, 31 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.