Use Perplexity with AI via MCP
An assistant that only knows internal knowledge stops at the company boundary. Perplexity closes that gap with an official MCP server at api.perplexity.ai/mcp that exposes search and research as tools. CompanyGPT connects with an API key and can deliver current information along with its sources.
What is Perplexity?
Perplexity provides AI-assisted web search. Queries are not answered as a list of links but condensed into an answer that names the sources it used. Alongside the end-user interface, the company offers an API that lets this research capability be embedded into other applications.
In a business context this matters wherever currency counts: market observation, regulatory developments, supplier and competitive landscape, technical change. An AI agent can then answer questions that reach beyond internal data – and supply the provenance of its statements so they remain verifiable.
Connection at a Glance
- MCP server
- Official (Perplexity), remote
- Endpoint
- api.perplexity.ai/mcp
- Transport
- Streamable HTTP
- Authentication
- API key (no OAuth)
- Operating model
- SaaS
- Tools
- Four tools: search, direct question, research, reasoning (search, ask, research, reason)
How to Connect Perplexity to CompanyGPT
Perplexity operates an official MCP server (remote) at api.perplexity.ai/mcp, connected via streamable HTTP. It exposes four tools: search, direct question, in-depth research and reasoning.
Authentication uses an API key – there is no OAuth flow for this server. The key is stored in your CompanyGPT environment and never handed to users. In practice that means the integration works through a central credential whose use you limit through role and group control in CompanyGPT.
Because queries go to an external service, scoping matters: the agent should be used for research, not for passing internal content outward. How that is reflected in the system prompt and agent configuration is something we define together with you.
Typical Use Cases
How AI agents in CompanyGPT work with Perplexity
Market observation
Product management has recent public reporting on a topic summarized – including source references for follow-up reading.
Track regulatory developments
Ahead of a meeting, the agent researches the current state of a regulation and assembles the relevant references.
Turn research into a briefing
Research results flow straight into an internal memo, combined with content from your own systems through other CompanyGPT integrations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Perplexity and AI – the most important answers
Does Perplexity have an official MCP server?
Yes. Perplexity provides an official MCP server (remote) at api.perplexity.ai/mcp, connected via streamable HTTP. It offers four tools: search, ask, research and reason.
How does authentication work?
Through an API key. No OAuth flow is available for this server. The key is stored centrally in your CompanyGPT environment.
Does internal data leave our environment?
Only what is submitted as a query leaves your environment. The integration is meant for web research; role control and agent configuration let you limit who uses it and in which context.
Who in the company can use the research tool?
Your administrators control that in CompanyGPT via roles and groups. Access can be limited to market research, product management or communications, for example.
Are sources shown?
Perplexity returns answers with source references. Those are surfaced in the chat so statements can be traced and checked.
Perplexity and Your AI – GDPR-Compliant with CompanyGPT
CompanyGPT is the enterprise AI assistant in your own cloud tenant: all relevant AI models, your company data and integrations like Perplexity – centrally managed, with roles and permissions. We set up the connection together with you.
Perplexity is a trademark of its respective owner (Perplexity AI). Its mention describes compatibility and does not imply any partnership or endorsement. Availability and scope of the connection depend on the respective vendor.