Missing model even with configured Api Key

[p44]

@james Yes, I followed all instructions... OpenAi and Anthropic they work fine, Perplexity no...

[james]

Hello @p44 just making sure.
Thanks for reporting.
I will look into it.

[p44]

@james Thanks James, waiting for your update

[james]

Hello @p44
Looking into it, but Perplexity does require payment setup for the API, so I am unable to generate API credentials for testing.

If you have some API credentials, would you be willing to provide them to me via a DM in the forum for testing?

[p44]

@james thanks a lot for your patience and your efforts. I just sent a DM with Perplexity Api Key.

[james]

Hello @p44

Thanks for providing the API Token.

@p44 said in Missing model even with configured Api Key:

I configured API keys in env file: first for OpenAi, second for Anthropic, and third for Perplexity.

This took me longer then expected.
It seems the variable you mentioned https://docs.openwebui.com/getting-started/env-configuration/#perplexity_api_key does not do what you think it does.

See: https://docs.openwebui.com/features/plugin/functions/pipe#extending-the-proxy-pipe

You can modify this proxy Pipe to support additional service providers like Anthropic, Perplexity, and more by adjusting the API endpoints, headers, and logic within the pipes and pipe functions.

So Perplexity is not supported in the same way OpenAI etc. is.
Adding the API URL and token via the connections tab did also not solve this.

After some more research, I found for Perplexity a custom Function is needed.
A custom what?

After even more search I found this: https://openwebui.com/f/neuromechanist/perplexity_pipe which I installed after a signup.
But you could also copy the code and add this function by hand.

After that I simply had to paste your API token:

Now I am able to select the modells:

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[p44]

@james thanks for your efforts... it seems you worked on OpenWeb UI and not on LibreChat... right?

[james]

Hello @p44
Yes, I did. . .
Sorry for that, I will look into LibreChat also.

[james]

Second try.
I got it working in LibreChat much faster.
I added this to /app/data/env:

PERPLEXITY_API_KEY="YOUR-API-TOKEN-GOES-HERE"

And after reading https://www.librechat.ai/docs/configuration/librechat_yaml/ai_endpoints/perplexity and adding this config to the /app/data/librechat.yaml I found multiple issues with this sample config.
First there were some error about something being wrong in this yaml and after fixing that, the logs complained that:

Error 400 Invalid model 'llama-3-sonar-small-32k-chat'. Permitted models can be found in the documentation at https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/model-cards.

So I fixed and tweaked this config to:

version: 1.2.4

endpoints:
  custom:
    - name: "Perplexity"
      apiKey: "${PERPLEXITY_API_KEY}"
      baseURL: "https://api.perplexity.ai/"
      models:
        default:
          - "sonar-deep-research"
          - "sonar-reasoning-pro"
          - "sonar-reasoning"
          - "sonar-pro"
          - "sonar"
          - "r1-1776"
        fetch: false
      titleConvo: true
      titleModel: "sonar"
      summarize: false
      summaryModel: "sonar"
      forcePrompt: false
      dropParams:
        - "stop"
        - "frequency_penalty"
      modelDisplayLabel: "Perplexity"

Which is working when using sonar, sonar-pro, sonar-reasoning, sonar-reasoning-pro but for some reason sonar-deep-research returns nothing.

I hope this helps and solves your issue.

[p44]

@james This solution works. Thanks a lot