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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 use the [OpenAI-compatible endpoint](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/usage/chat-completion/) (`/ai-gateway/usage/chat-completion/`) to access Perplexity models using the OpenAI API schema. To do so, send your requests to:

```

https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account_id}/{gateway_id}/compat/chat/completions


```

Specify:

```

{

"model": "perplexity/{model}"

}


```

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```