Is the Parallel MCP server free?

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the MCP server is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

How do I connect Parallel to Claude or Cursor?

Connect Parallel in Activepieces, enable the server under Settings → MCP Server, then paste your server URL into your client config. It authenticates over OAuth on first use.

What can my agent do in Parallel?

It can call 9 tools, including Search the Web, Extract Web Content, Create Task Run, and chain them with steps in other apps inside the same run.

Is it safe to let an agent call Parallel?

Connections use OAuth2 with limited scopes and are stored under 256-bit encryption, with no API to read them back, so an agent gets scoped access rather than your keys.

Parallel MCP server

Web research APIs for AI: search, extract, multi-hop research tasks, entity discovery (FindAll), and web monitoring.

Parallel is not a separate install. One Activepieces MCP server exposes it alongside 760+ other apps, behind a single URL.

Start building See the Parallel integration

Tools: 9
Works with: Any MCP client
Auth: API key
License: MIT, open source
Updated: September 2026

About the Parallel MCP server

Connect Parallel once in Activepieces and every action it ships becomes a tool your assistant can call, behind the same server URL as the rest of your apps. Your agent reaches Parallel and 760+ other apps over a single connection, on our cloud or a self-hosted install.

Tools

Parallel tools your AI can run

Once connected, your assistant can call any of these Parallel actions by asking in plain language.

Search the Web
Search the web with natural-language objectives. Returns LLM-optimized excerpts with citations.
7 fields
Extract Web Content
Extract clean, citation-aware content from specific web URLs. Up to 20 URLs per request.
6 fields
Create Task Run
Initiate a Parallel research task. Returns immediately with a queued run; use Get Task Run Result to wait for completion.
8 fields
Get Task Run Status
Retrieve the current status of a task run by its ID.
1 field
Get Task Run Result
Retrieve a task run result by run ID. Blocks until the run completes (or until the timeout is reached).
2 fields
Create FindAll Run
Discover and verify entities matching plain-language criteria. Match conditions can be supplied directly or auto-generated from the objective.
6 fields
Get FindAll Result
Return the current snapshot of matched candidates for a FindAll run, including any enrichment fields.
1 field
Chat Completion
Get a chat completion using a Parallel processor. OpenAI-compatible interface; processor names like 'speed', 'base', 'core', 'pro', 'ultra' map to Parallel tiers.
6 fields
Custom API Call
Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint
10 fields

Give your assistant Parallel

Connect Parallel once and every tool above is callable from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, behind the same server URL as 760+ other apps. Free to start.

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Parallel MCP, answered.

No. That is the point of it. One Activepieces server exposes Parallel alongside every other piece you connect, so your client keeps a single connection.