Perplexity

Learn how to use Perplexity with Agno.

Perplexity offers powerful language models with built-in web search capabilities, enabling advanced research and Q&A functionality.

Explore Perplexity’s models here.

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Authentication

Set your PERPLEXITY_API_KEY environment variable. Get your key from Perplexity here.

Mac

export PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=***

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Example

Use Perplexity with your Agent:

agent.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.perplexity import Perplexity

agent = Agent(model=Perplexity(id="sonar-pro"), markdown=True)

# Print the response in the terminal
agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story")

View more examples here.

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Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
id	str	"llama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-online"	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

Perplexity also supports the params of OpenAI.