Comparison

Perplexity API Platform vs Craft Quantities: construction material calculators

Perplexity API Platform is an MCP server published by perplexity.ai. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Official MCP Registry, Docker MCP Catalog, Community GitHub marketplaces). Craft Quantities: construction material calculators is an MCP server published by craftquantities.com. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-14. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.

Where each is published

Where each is published
Marketplace	Perplexity API Platform	Craft Quantities: construction material calculators
Official MCP Registry	Listed Version: 1.2.1 Downloads/month (npm): 104 497 Downloads/week (npm): 14 694 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	Listed Version: 1.3.0 No figure published Not marked · First seen 2026-10-12
Docker MCP Catalog	Listed Version: sha256:7816f45a6f26 Forks (GitHub): 380 Pulls (Docker Hub): 79 944 Stars (Docker Hub): 17 Stars (GitHub): 2 563 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	Not listed

Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

The facts side by side

Perplexity API Platform vs Craft Quantities: construction material calculators
Fact	Perplexity API Platform	Craft Quantities: construction material calculators
Marketplaces that list it (differs)	3 (better)	1 (worse)
Stars (GitHub) (differs)	2 563	No figure on GitHub
Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs)	79 944	No figure on Docker Hub
Forks (GitHub) (differs)	380	No figure on GitHub
Last release (differs)	Not published	2026-10-12
Where it runs (differs)	On your machine (@perplexity-ai/mcp-server)	Remote server (api.craftquantities.com/mcp)
Transport (differs)	stdio	Streamable HTTP
Tools it declares (differs)	3	Not published
Environment variables it asks for (differs)	2, secrets among them: 1	Not published
Parts of the bundle (differs)	1	Not a bundle
Licence (differs)	MIT	Not stated
Repository (differs)	github.com/ppl-ai/modelcontextprotocol	Not stated
Changes in the last 7 days	3	3
First seen (differs)	2026-10-11	2026-10-12
Endpoint at the last check (differs)	no remote endpoint we check	Responded 2 h ago

Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.

What each says it does

Perplexity API Platform

In its own words, on Official MCP Registry:

Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API

Craft Quantities: construction material calculators

In its own words, on Official MCP Registry:

Construction quantities from cited calculators, takeoffs, a planner and house drawings. No prices.

How to run each

Perplexity API Platform As a local MCP server: npm package

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio perplexity-api-platform -- npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server

Craft Quantities: construction material calculators As a remote MCP server

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http engine https://api.craftquantities.com/mcp

Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.

Only Craft Quantities: construction material calculators has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints

Tools each declares

Only Perplexity API Platform has

perplexity_ask
perplexity_reason
perplexity_research

Only Craft Quantities: construction material calculators has

calculate
check_quote
convert_units
create_drawing
create_project_file_from_calculations
create_project_file_from_drawing
create_project_file_from_house
create_project_file_from_plan
create_project_file_from_takeoffs
create_supplier_quote_request
diagnose_symptom
estimate_house

Show the remaining 16

fetch
get_calculator
get_example
get_planner
get_sources
get_takeoff
import_quote
market_documents
open_in_site_link
plan_project
plan_room
run_example
run_takeoff
search
solve_backwards
translate_term

Both have

None

Tool names as the marketplaces declare them and as Ext Ops observed them on the endpoints (Craft Quantities: construction material calculators as of 2026-10-14). More tools is not better in itself: compare what each needs for the job.

Settings each asks for

The marketplaces of Craft Quantities: construction material calculators publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.

What it can do: Perplexity API Platform · What it can do: Craft Quantities: construction material calculators · Compare two other plugins

Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on 2026-10-14. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.