{"id":"jsonallen-perplexity-mcp","name":"perplexity-mcp","af_score":55.5,"security_score":59.2,"reliability_score":22.5,"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes a single web-search tool backed by Perplexity AI’s API, intended for use with Claude Desktop (and similar MCP clients).","best_when":"You want a simple MCP tool for on-demand web search with a single query and optional recency window, integrated into an MCP-capable client.","avoid_when":"You need strict guarantees around uptime, documented error codes/retry behavior, or detailed security controls beyond a single upstream API key.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T13:34:13.945037+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["API key via PERPLEXITY_API_KEY environment variable"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Only one tool is exposed (perplexity_search_web) with limited parameters (query + optional recency).","Agents may assume pagination or structured filtering that is not described; results are returned as provided by Perplexity’s API without documented normalization.","Tool reliability will be bounded by upstream Perplexity API availability/rate limits (not documented here)."],"error_quality":0.0}