aisdk/perplexity

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Official Perplexity provider for the PHP AI SDK. Uses Perplexity's Chat Completions API.

Installation

composer require aisdk/perplexity

Basic Usage

use AiSdk\Generate;
use AiSdk\Perplexity;

$result = Generate::text('What happened in technology today?')
    ->model(Perplexity::model('sonar-pro'))
    ->run();

echo $result->text;

Configuration

Variable	Description	Default
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY	API key for authentication	Required
PERPLEXITY_BASE_URL	Base URL for API requests	https://api.perplexity.ai

Supported Capabilities

Capability	Support
Text generation	Native
Streaming	Native
Tool calling	Native
Structured output	Adapted (json_object with an explicit JSON instruction)
Text input	Native

Provider-specific fields can be passed through providerOptions('perplexity', [...]). Model IDs are opaque strings and Perplexity remains the authority on model availability.

Testing

composer test:all

Documentation

• PHP AI SDK documentation
• Perplexity documentation

Community

• Contributing
• Support
• For private security reports, email security@phpaisdk.com.