researcher-plugin vs Perplexity API Platform
researcher-plugin is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑18.
researcher-plugin is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by AlexeyTripleA. No marketplace we read lists it any more. 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). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-19. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |   Perplexity API Platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace alexeytriplea/claude-code-plugins | Removed on 2026-10-18 Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 3 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.2.1 Downloads/month (npm): 102 467 Downloads/week (npm): 16 084 Not marked · First seen |
| Docker MCP Catalog | Not listed | Listed Version: sha256:7816f45a6f26 Forks (GitHub): 384 Pulls (Docker Hub): 80 359 Stars (Docker Hub): 17 Stars (GitHub): 2 578 Not marked · First seen |
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
| Fact | researcher-pluginno longer listed · | Perplexity API Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 3 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 3 | 2 578 |
| Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs) | No figure on Docker Hub | 80 359 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 1 | 384 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-17 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (@perplexity-ai/mcp-server) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares (differs) | Not published | 3 |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 4, secrets among them: 3 | 2, secrets among them: 1 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 7 | 1 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/alexeytriplea/claude-code-plugins | github.com/ppl-ai/modelcontextprotocol |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 4 | 4 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of researcher-plugin
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Exa AI web search, deep research, and content extraction. Provides MCP tools and research skills for comprehensive web search, people discovery, company research, academic papers…
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Web search and content fetching with privacy-aware tool selection. Turns vague questions into optimized multi-engine queries, evaluates result quality, and re-searches when…
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google-researcher io.github.zoharbabin/google-researcher
MCP server providing Google Search, web scraping, and multi-source research tools for AI assistants
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Search1API brings multi-engine search to AI agents, with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and specialized sources including GitHub, Reddit, X, arXiv, Wikipedia, YouTube, WeChat…
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You.com Web Search & Research
Live web search, full-page content extraction, and cited research for Claude. Look up current docs, API references, changelogs, error fixes, and web data while you code, plus…
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MultiScrape Contextual Web Research
Live web research with related queries, browser-rendered sources, images, and evidence.
What each says it does
researcher-plugin
AI-powered research agent that finds current information online using multiple sources: Brave Search, Tavily, Bright Data, and Reddit
Perplexity API Platform
Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API
How to run each
researcher-plugin
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Perplexity API Platform As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio perplexity-api-platform -- npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-serverCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
The marketplaces of researcher-plugin publish no list of tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
Only researcher-plugin asks for
API_TOKEN (secret)BRAVE_API_KEY (secret)PRO_MODETAVILY_API_KEY (secret)
Only Perplexity API Platform asks for
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY (secret)PERPLEXITY_TIMEOUT_MS
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: researcher-plugin · What it can do: Perplexity API Platform · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. 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. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.