# Perplexity — Custom connectors: Bring your own MCP server

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-13T19:06:32+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#september-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10537-custom-connectors-bring-your-own-mcp-server
- Subject: Sonar

Perplexity introduced custom connectors that allow users to register a remote MCP server once on their Project connectors page. The service stores the server's credential so applications do not need to store or send it with each request. Custom connectors are available to all Projects and support API-key or no authentication with Streamable HTTP or SSE transport.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#september-2026:

> Register a remote MCP server once on your Project connectors page. Perplexity stores the server's credential, so your application does not need to store or send it with each request. Use the generated connector ID with type: "connector" in Agent API requests. Custom connectors are available to all Projects and support API-key or no authentication, with Streamable HTTP or SSE transport.

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