# When Perplexity Quit MCP, Cloudflare Built the Fix. The Hard Part Is Still Unolved. - Date: 2026-04-18 - Category: Agentics Perplexity quietly dropped MCP in March after context costs ate 72 percent of its capacity. Six weeks later, Cloudflare published the most complete architectural response yet — and the governance gaps that make it hard to replicate. ---