Perplexity MCP Server
Real-time web search, reasoning, and research delivered through Perplexity's API over MCP.
🛡️ AgentReady threat assessment
MAESTRO 7-layer threat model + OWASP AIVSS risk score for Perplexity MCP Server, derived from its capabilities.
AIVSS 7.1 · High
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Perplexity's remote MCP server exposes its search-and-reason API so agents can run grounded web research. Responses embed synthesized third-party web content, which is an indirect prompt-injection vector, and every query is sent to Perplexity's cloud.
Key features
- Grounded web search
- Reasoning and research modes
- API-key auth
Use cases
- Add live research to an agent
- Answer questions with cited web sources