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Connect Perplexity to Claude

Search, read and write Perplexity from Claude. Arlet links the two through one MCP connection and takes care of keys and authentication.

Enable Perplexity in ArletClaude connection guide (docs)

Use Perplexity's official MCP server from the AI services you already use, through Arlet. Sign in with your Perplexity API account and the connection is ready.

Your AI can run live web searches, get quick answers, produce detailed research reports and reason with evidence. Usage is billed to the connected Perplexity API account.

How to connect Perplexity to Claude

  1. 1

    In the Arlet dashboard, open Integrations → Add an integration and choose Perplexity. Sign in with Link Perplexity, name the connection and click Create.

  2. 2

    In Claude, open Organization settings → Connectors from the account menu at the bottom left, then click + Add.

  3. 3

    Choose Custom → Web, enter "Arlet" as the Name and https://mcp.arlet.dev/mcp/ as the Remote MCP server URL, then click Add. Authentication settings are auto-detected, so keep the defaults.

  4. 4

    The first time you use it, sign in with Google. After that, every service you switched on in Arlet is available from Claude.

Adding a connector is done by an organization admin on Team / Enterprise plans. On Pro / Max you can add it for yourself from Settings → Connectors with the same steps.

What you can do

Perplexity tools that Claude can call.

  • perplexity_search

    Search the web and return ranked results with sources, filterable by recency and domain.

  • perplexity_ask

    Answer a question quickly using live web information.

  • perplexity_research

    Produce a detailed, sourced research report across many sources.

  • perplexity_reason

    Reason step by step through a complex question and support the conclusion with evidence.

The tool list follows what Perplexity's official MCP server provides and may change.

Example uses

  • Stay on top of an industry

    Search the last few months of news, earnings and regulation, and organize it with sources for the opening of a report.

  • Prepare for a first meeting

    Get the essentials on a company or market, with sources, in the minutes before a kickoff.

  • Delegate deep research

    Generate a multi-source report on a theme such as how a technology has spread across countries.

  • Test a hypothesis

    Reason through whether a hypothesis holds given the facts collected and surface missing assumptions.

Prompts you can use as-is

  • Summarize the main news in Japanese logistics over the last three months, with sources
  • What were the highlights of Acme's latest earnings and how did the market react?
  • Write a comparative report on renewable energy subsidy schemes across European countries
  • Examine the hypothesis that this market doubles in five years; give evidence for and against

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