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title: Perplexity
description: Route Perplexity API requests through AI Gateway for observability and control.
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# Perplexity

[Perplexity ↗](https://www.perplexity.ai/) is an AI powered answer engine.

## Endpoint

```
https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account_id}/{gateway_id}/perplexity-ai
```

## Prerequisites

When making requests to Perplexity, ensure you have the following:

* Your AI Gateway Account ID.
* Your AI Gateway gateway name.
* An active Perplexity API token.
* The name of the Perplexity model you want to use.

## Examples

### cURL

Example fetch request

```
curl https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account_id}/{gateway_id}/perplexity-ai/chat/completions \     --header 'accept: application/json' \     --header 'content-type: application/json' \     --header 'Authorization: Bearer {perplexity_token}' \     --data '{      "model": "mistral-7b-instruct",      "messages": [        {          "role": "user",          "content": "What is Cloudflare?"        }      ]    }'
```

### Use Perplexity through OpenAI SDK with JavaScript

Perplexity does not have their own SDK, but they have compatibility with the OpenAI SDK. You can use the OpenAI SDK to make a Perplexity call through AI Gateway as follows:

JavaScript

```
import OpenAI from "openai";
const apiKey = env.PERPLEXITY_API_KEY;const accountId = "{account_id}";const gatewayId = "{gateway_id}";const baseURL = `https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/${accountId}/${gatewayId}/perplexity-ai`;
const perplexity = new OpenAI({  apiKey,  baseURL,});
const model = "mistral-7b-instruct";const messages = [{ role: "user", content: "What is Cloudflare?" }];const maxTokens = 20;
const chatCompletion = await perplexity.chat.completions.create({  model,  messages,  max_tokens: maxTokens,});
```

## OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint

You can also access Perplexity models using the OpenAI API schema through the [REST API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/usage/rest-api/). Send your requests to:

```
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/v1/chat/completions
```

Specify:

```
{"model": "perplexity/{model}"}
```

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