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Perplexity AI

Web-search augmented language models with real-time internet access.

LiteLLM prefix: perplexity/
Status: Stub — routes through OpenAI-compatible client
Docs: https://docs.perplexity.ai/reference/post_chat_completions

Authentication

Variable Required Description
PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY Yes API key from perplexity.ai/settings/api (also accepted as PERPLEXITY_API_KEY)
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY Yes Alias for PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY

Quick Start

Single-Backend (env vars)

BACKEND=perplexity PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY=your-key cargo run -p anyllm_proxy
# Docker:
docker run -e BACKEND=perplexity -e PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY=your-key -e PROXY_OPEN_RELAY=true -p 3000:3000 followthewhit3rabbit/anyllm-proxy

LiteLLM YAML Config

model_list:
  - model_name: sonar-pro
    litellm_params:
      model: perplexity/sonar-pro
      api_key: "env:PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY"

Usage Examples

Anthropic Messages API

curl http://localhost:3000/v1/messages \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: $PROXY_API_KEYS" \
  -d '{"model": "sonar-pro", "max_tokens": 1024, "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What happened in the news today?"}]}'

OpenAI Chat Completions API

curl http://localhost:3000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PROXY_API_KEYS" \
  -d '{"model": "sonar-pro", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What happened in the news today?"}]}'

Capabilities

Feature Supported
Chat Completions
Streaming
Tool Use
Embeddings
Vision
Batch

Notable Models

Model ID Context Notes
sonar-pro 200k Web search, higher quality
sonar 128k Web search, faster and cheaper
llama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-online 128k Sonar large with web access
llama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-online 128k Sonar small with web access

Notes

All Perplexity "online" and "sonar" models include real-time web search. Responses include citations in a citations field on the response object — these are passed through as-is from the upstream API. Tool use and function calling are not supported. Perplexity does not offer an embeddings endpoint. System prompts are supported but Perplexity recommends keeping them concise; the models are optimized for user-facing queries, not agent workflows.