# Perplexity API Platform

> Perplexity API Platform, an MCP server by perplexity.ai, listed from the official MCP registry. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-mcp-server
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-mcp-server.md (~450 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-mcp-server.min.md (~380 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-mcp-server.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-05

# Perplexity API Platform

> Indexed, not reviewed: facts from the official MCP registry and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/

- Kind: MCP server, by perplexity.ai (https://perplexity.ai)
- Category: Web search APIs (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/search.md)
- Listed because: It's published in the registry under perplexity.ai, a namespace the registry only gives to whoever proves they control that domain. It's in real use: 30,911 npm downloads a week.
- What the official MCP registry says: Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API

## Facts

- MCP registry: `ai.perplexity/mcp-server` 1.2.1
- Package: npm `@perplexity-ai/mcp-server` (stdio)
- npm downloads a week: 30,911
- Registry entry updated: 2026-08-27

- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/perplexity-mcp-server.json
- Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. Ask for a review: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#claiming