perplexity_search

MCP tool from Perplexity Web Api MCP by mishamyrt

Quick web search using the turbo model. Returns only links, titles, and snippets — no generated answer.

How to use it

perplexity_search is exposed by the Perplexity Web Api MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the perplexity_search tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Perplexity Web Api MCP

claude mcp add perplexity --env PERPLEXITY_SESSION_TOKEN="your-session-token" --env PERPLEXITY_CSRF_TOKEN="your-csrf-token" -- npx -y perplexity-web-api-mcp

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Other tools in Perplexity Web Api MCP (7)

files

(optional, requires tokens): Array of file attachments for document analysis. See File Attachments.

language

(optional): Language code, e.g., "en-US". Defaults to "en-US"

perplexity_ask

Ask Perplexity AI a question and get a comprehensive answer with source citations. By default uses the best model (Pro auto mode) when authentication tokens are provided, or turbo in tokenless mode. Can be configured via PERPLEXITYASKMODEL.

perplexity_reason

Advanced reasoning and problem-solving. By default uses Perplexity's sonar-reasoning model, but can be configured via PERPLEXITYREASONMODEL.

perplexity_research

Deep, comprehensive research using Perplexity's sonar-deep-research (pplxalpha) model.

query

(required): The search query or question

sources

(optional): Array of sources — "web", "scholar", "social". Defaults to ["web"]