How can I connect Perplexica to OpenRouter models?

[Michal-Mikolas]

How can I connect Perplexica to OpenRouter models?

Thank you.

[carlosazurmendi]

I haven't tried doing this since I don't have any API credits in OpenRouter at the moment (I'm a broke college student lol) but I have seen the setting within perplexica's interface to accomplish this.

For example, if you want to use DeepSeek-V3 you would select the Custom_openai option and input

Model Name: deepseek/deepseek-chat
API Key: <YOUR_API_KEY>
BaseURL: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1

[carlosazurmendi]

BTW This also works with Hyperbolic as well.

[TorAllex]

For example, if you want to use DeepSeek-V3 you would select the Custom_openai option and input

Model Name: deepseek/deepseek-chat API Key: <YOUR_API_KEY> BaseURL: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
Okay, but I don't see this option in the interface.

[Michal-Mikolas]

Oh, I ment in the config file.

I want to install Perplexica to our company intranet but I don't want to tell all our employees the OpenRouter API key...

[carlosazurmendi]

That's pretty easy as well. You can do it Via the source code in the config.toml file.

[Michal-Mikolas]

But how? Sample config file looks like this:

[GENERAL]
PORT = 3001 # Port to run the server on
SIMILARITY_MEASURE = "cosine" # "cosine" or "dot"
KEEP_ALIVE = "5m" # How long to keep Ollama models loaded into memory. (Instead of using -1 use "-1m")

[API_KEYS]
OPENAI = "" # OpenAI API key - sk-1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef
GROQ = "" # Groq API key - gsk_1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef
ANTHROPIC = "" # Anthropic API key - sk-ant-1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef
GEMINI = "" # Gemini API key - sk-1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef

[API_ENDPOINTS]
SEARXNG = "http://localhost:32768" # SearxNG API URL
OLLAMA = "" # Ollama API URL - http://host.docker.internal:11434

There is no variable for OPENAI_BASE, OPENAI_BASE_URL, CUSTOM_OPENAI_BASE or anything similar... There is also no OPENROUTER_API_KEY variable in the config file.

[TomLucidor]

Seconding this when it comes to config-based vs UX based operations, are Ollama and OpenAI API using the same parameters? https://ollama.com/blog/openai-compatibility

[fruitpunchninja06]

I asked Claude code to support Open Router, and it did beautifully. So you guys don't have to wait for the repo officially supports it, just vibe code.

[TomLucidor]

PR then please