# perplexity-sonar-mcp

> Tiny MCP server for Perplexity Sonar web search

Record `perplexity-sonar-mcp` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/perplexity-sonar-mcp/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/perplexity-sonar-mcp
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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/perplexity-sonar-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/retospect/perplexity-sonar-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/retospect/perplexity-sonar-mcp
- version: 0.2.2
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, perplexity, sonar, web-search
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:perplexity-sonar-mcp

### Description (declared)

# perplexity-sonar-mcp

Tiny Python MCP server for Perplexity web search — 3 tools with escalating depth.

## Tools

| Tool | Speed | Use for |
|------|-------|---------|
| `web_search(query)` | 2-5s | Quick facts, simple lookups |
| `web_ask(query)` | 5-15s | Thorough answers, literature discovery |
| `deep_research(query)` | 2-10 min | Comprehensive multi-step analysis |

Both `web_search` and `web_ask` accept optional `focus` (`"academic"`, `"finance"`) and `recency` (`"day"`, `"week"`, `"month"`, `"year"`) parameters.

## Setup

```bash
pip install -e .
export PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=pplx-...
perplexity-sonar-mcp  # starts stdio MCP server
```

## MCP client config

```json
{
  "name": "perplexity",
  "cmd": ["perplexity-sonar-mcp"],
  "env": {"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "pplx-..."}
}
```

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-search (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/perplexity-sonar-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T09:26:04.495Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/perplexity-sonar-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/perplexity-sonar-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:perplexity-sonar-mcp