Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server) MCP Server

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Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server) runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 41 601 installs a week from npm.

Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API

Installs per day peak 8 515 · avg 2 858 · +142% w/w

a month agotoday

41 601

Installs / week

npm · @perplexity-ai/mcp-server

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Stars

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Last commit

2 releases in 90 days

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server) 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 mcp-server -- npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@perplexity-ai/mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@perplexity-ai/mcp-server"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@perplexity-ai/mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@perplexity-ai/mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server)?

Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server) 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 npm package @perplexity-ai/mcp-server was installed 41 601 times last week.

How do I connect Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server)?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @perplexity-ai/mcp-server straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server)?

The npm package @perplexity-ai/mcp-server was installed 41 601 times in the last week. Week over week that is +142%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.