Title: AI Provider for Perplexity
Author: Khokan Sardar
Published: <strong>July 5, 2026</strong>
Last modified: July 5, 2026

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# AI Provider for Perplexity

 By [Khokan Sardar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khokansardar/)

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## Description

This plugin provides the Perplexity implementation for the WordPress AI Client. 
It registers Perplexity as an available AI provider, allowing other plugins built
on the WordPress AI Client to generate web-grounded text using Perplexity’s Sonar
models (Sonar, Sonar Pro, Sonar Reasoning, Sonar Reasoning Pro, and Sonar Deep Research).

The plugin connects to Perplexity’s OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API. Bring
your own API key from the [Perplexity API settings](https://www.perplexity.ai/account/api/keys).

Supported capabilities:

 * Web-grounded text generation (chat) with the Sonar model family
 * Chat history / multi-turn conversations
 * JSON / structured output

### External services

This plugin connects to the Perplexity API to provide web-grounded text generation
with Perplexity’s Sonar models. It is required for the plugin’s core purpose: it
registers Perplexity as a provider for the WordPress AI Client so that AI features
can generate responses.

The plugin sends a request to Perplexity’s API (https://api.perplexity.ai) each 
time a consuming AI feature generates content through the Perplexity provider. Each
request includes your Perplexity API key (for authentication) and the input you 
submit for generation — such as the prompt text and any chat messages. No request
is sent unless an AI feature actively triggers a generation, and no data is sent
until you have configured a Perplexity API key. The plugin does not send any data
on its own.

This service is provided by Perplexity AI. Please review their terms and privacy
policy:

 * Terms of Service: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/perplexity-api-terms-of-
   service
 * Privacy Policy: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy

## FAQ

### Does this plugin work on its own?

No, this plugin requires the PHP AI Client (and a consuming AI feature plugin) to
be installed and activated. It provides the Perplexity-specific implementation that
the PHP AI Client uses.

### Where do I get an API key?

Create an API key in the [Perplexity API settings](https://www.perplexity.ai/account/api/keys).
The key is configured through the AI Client / Connectors interface, not in this 
plugin directly.

### Which models are supported?

The Sonar chat models: Sonar, Sonar Pro, Sonar Reasoning, Sonar Reasoning Pro, and
Sonar Deep Research. Perplexity does not expose a public model listing endpoint 
for these chat models, so the supported models are defined within the plugin.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“AI Provider for Perplexity” is open source software. The following people have 
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Khokan Sardar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khokansardar/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-provider-for-perplexity/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ai-provider-for-perplexity/),
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## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release. Adds Perplexity (Sonar) text generation support to the WordPress
   AI Client.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **1 day ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-provider-for-perplexity/)
 * Tags
 * [AI](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai/)[LLM](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/llm/)
   [Perplexity](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/perplexity/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Khokan Sardar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/khokansardar/)

## Support

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