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Perplexitybot MCP Server

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Perplexitybot is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

Validate PerplexityBot IP addresses. Remote MCP validate_ip tool.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 61%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
76 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add perplexitybot --transport http https://perplexitybot.seoapi.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://perplexitybot.seoapi.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.perplexitybot]
url = "https://perplexitybot.seoapi.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexitybot": {
      "url": "https://perplexitybot.seoapi.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "perplexitybot": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://perplexitybot.seoapi.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

validate
validate_ip
Check whether an IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) is a genuine PerplexityBot IP address, verified against PerplexityBot's published IP data on seoapi.com.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://perplexitybot.seoapi.com/mcp streamable-http answering 48 ms 9 min ago

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Perplexitybot — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Perplexitybot do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: validate_ip. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Perplexitybot working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 76 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Perplexitybot?
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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Perplexitybot need an API key?
No. Perplexitybot completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Perplexitybot?
It answers our handshake in 76 ms on average, which is faster than 95% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.