Perplexity

The Perplexity model provides access to Perplexity’s language models.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
id	str	"sonar"	The ID of the Perplexity model to use
name	str	"Perplexity"	The name of the model
provider	str	"Perplexity"	The provider of the model
api_key	Optional[str]	None	The API key for Perplexity (defaults to PERPLEXITY_API_KEY env var)
base_url	str	"https://api.perplexity.ai/"	The base URL for the Perplexity API
max_tokens	int	1024	Maximum number of tokens to generate
top_k	Optional[float]	None	Number of highest probability tokens to consider for generation
collect_metrics_on_completion	bool	True	Collect token metrics only from the final streaming chunk (for providers with cumulative token counts)
retries	int	0	Number of retries to attempt before raising a ModelProviderError
delay_between_retries	int	1	Delay between retries, in seconds
exponential_backoff	bool	False	If True, the delay between retries is doubled each time

Perplexity extends the OpenAI-compatible interface and supports most parameters from OpenAI.