Perplexity

Use Perplexity models with built-in web search in Agno agents.

Perplexity offers language models with built-in web search for research and Q&A.

Explore Perplexity’s models here.

Installation

uv pip install -U openai agno

Authentication

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

Mac

export PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=***

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.

Params

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)

Perplexity also supports the params of OpenAI.