# Perplexity Sonar

> Use this tool when you need to leverage AI-powered web search and reasoning capabilities for instant answers, enhanced reasoning, or comprehensive research tasks. It provides three complexity levels, balancing speed and depth, to solve problems ranging from quick factual queries to in-depth academic-level analysis with proper citations. With configurable timeouts and proper logging, it offers flexible research capabilities for various use cases, from simple questions to extensive analysis, with outputs including detailed responses and citations.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/perplexity-sonar  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/perplexity-sonar

## Description

This MCP server provides AI assistants with three-tiered access to Perplexity's Sonar API for web search and reasoning capabilities, built using Python with httpx for HTTP communication and comprehensive error handling. The implementation offers small (sonar-pro), medium (sonar-reasoning-pro), and large (sonar-deep-research) complexity levels that balance speed versus depth, with the small tool optimized for quick factual queries, medium for enhanced reasoning with moderate search depth, and large for comprehensive research tasks that can take 10-30 minutes but provide extensive analysis with high reasoning effort. Built with proper logging to stderr for MCP protocol compliance, automatic removal of thinking tokens from responses, and configurable timeouts, it serves users needing flexible AI-powered research capabilities ranging from instant answers to deep academic-level analysis with proper citations and web search integration.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.64
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-02

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** monitoring
- **Updated:** 2026-09-02

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/perplexity-sonar)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/rohit-seelam/perplexity_mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "perplexity-sonar"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/perplexity-sonar` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/perplexity-sonar/pull`

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