Perplexity
Perplexity's Sonar models answer with citations sourced from the live web. Supercompat talks to Perplexity via the OpenAI SDK with a custom base URL.
Install
npm install supercompat openai
Minimal setup
import OpenAI from 'openai'
import {
supercompat,
perplexityClientAdapter,
completionsRunAdapter,
memoryStorageAdapter,
} from 'supercompat/openai'
const perplexity = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.PERPLEXITY_API_KEY,
baseURL: 'https://api.perplexity.ai',
})
const client = supercompat({
clientAdapter: perplexityClientAdapter({ perplexity }),
storageAdapter: memoryStorageAdapter(),
runAdapter: completionsRunAdapter(),
})
const response = await client.responses.create({
model: 'sonar',
input: 'What happened in AI news this week?',
})
Sonar responses include web citations in the output text; parsing them is application-specific.
Models
Pass any Sonar model id — the full list is at docs.perplexity.ai/getting-started/models.
Some current examples:
sonar — fast, general-purposesonar-pro — higher quality, slowersonar-reasoning — chain-of-thought over live web