aisdk/perplexity

Official Perplexity provider for the PHP AI SDK.

v0.8.0 2026-07-15 12:07 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.3
• aisdk/core: ^0.8.0
• aisdk/openai-compatible: ^0.8.0

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/pint: ^1.18
• nyholm/psr7: ^1.8
• pestphp/pest: ^3.0 || ^4.0
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.0
• rector/rector: ^2.0

MIT

• ai
• llm
• perplexity
• openai-compatible
• aisdk

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-15 12:15 UTC

README

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 [e-mail].