Perplexity MCP server: setup, auth, tools
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- Endpoint
https://api.perplexity.ai/mcp- Transport
- Streamable HTTP (also local stdio package)
- Auth
- OAuth or Bearer API key
- Docs
- Official documentation
What you can do
- perplexity_search
- perplexity_ask
- perplexity_research
- perplexity_reason
Setup notes
Official Perplexity MCP docs fetched.
StackMCP does not proxy vendor MCP traffic. Add the endpoint in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or another MCP client and complete the vendor’s auth flow.