com.mcparmory/perplexity

Perplexity AI

Is the com.mcparmory/perplexity MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-11-14.

Search the web, generate AI responses, and create embeddings with real-time information

alive probed 2026-11-14

7tools

8.8ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5

4.4 %of Claude's 200k window

3.5×the median server

8.6 sto initialize

712 msto list tools

Run it: uvx mcparmory-perplexity@1.0.2 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host: pypi.org
Reports itself as: Perplexity AI 4.2.0
Capabilities: logging, prompts, resources, tools
Instructions: none
Of a 1M window: 0.9 % of a 1M context window
Count: 8.8k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-17. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 8.9k. The o200k_base estimate is 5.0k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository: https://github.com/mcparmory/registry
Registry: active, updated 2026-05-12 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.75×.

Tool	≈ Claude tokens	o200k estimate	Share of this server
create_async_chat_completion	3 351	1 920	38 %
create_chat_completion	3 126	1 791	35 %
search_web	775	444	9 %
create_contextualized_embeddings	686	393	8 %
create_embeddings	641	367	7 %

Other registry entries on pypi.org, the ones next to this name; all of them.

Servers that mention perplexity.

The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.

Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.