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---
title: "PerplexityChatGenerator"
id: perplexitychatgenerator
slug: "/perplexitychatgenerator"
description: "`PerplexityChatGenerator` enables chat completion using models via the Perplexity Agent API."
---
# PerplexityChatGenerator
`PerplexityChatGenerator` enables chat completion using models via the Perplexity Agent API.
<div className="key-value-table">
| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Most common position in a pipeline** | After a [ChatPromptBuilder](../builders/chatpromptbuilder.mdx) |
| **Mandatory init variables** | `api_key`: A Perplexity API key. Can be set with `PERPLEXITY_API_KEY` env var. |
| **Mandatory run variables** | `messages`: A list of [`ChatMessage`](../../concepts/data-classes/chatmessage.mdx) objects representing the chat |
| **Output variables** | `replies`: A list of alternative replies of the LLM to the input chat |
| **API reference** | [Integrations](/reference/integrations-perplexity) |
| **GitHub link** | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack-core-integrations/blob/main/integrations/perplexity/src/haystack_integrations/components/generators/perplexity/chat/chat_generator.py |
| **Package name** | `perplexity-haystack` |
</div>
## Overview
`PerplexityChatGenerator` is built on top of `OpenAIResponsesChatGenerator` and communicates with the [Perplexity Agent API](https://docs.perplexity.ai/) (`POST /v1/agent`), which uses an OpenAI Responses-compatible interface.
It supports the following models:
- `openai/gpt-5.5`
- `openai/gpt-5.4` (default)
- `anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6`
- `xai/grok-4.3`
- `google/gemini-3-flash-preview`
See the [Perplexity Agent API models page](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/agent-api/models) for the current list.
`PerplexityChatGenerator` needs a Perplexity API key to work. It uses a `PERPLEXITY_API_KEY` environment variable by default.
The component accepts a list of `ChatMessage` objects to operate. `ChatMessage` is a data class that contains a message, a role (such as `user`, `assistant`, or `system`), and optional metadata. See the [usage](#usage) section for an example.
You can pass any parameters supported by the Perplexity Agent API using the `generation_kwargs` parameter, both at initialization and in the `run()` method.
## Usage
### On its own
```python
from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage
from haystack_integrations.components.generators.perplexity import (
PerplexityChatGenerator,
)
chat_generator = PerplexityChatGenerator()
response = chat_generator.run(
[ChatMessage.from_user("What's Natural Language Processing? Be brief.")],
)
print(response["replies"][0].text)
```
With streaming — pass any callable to `streaming_callback`, or use the built-in `print_streaming_chunk`:
```python
from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage
from haystack.components.generators.utils import print_streaming_chunk
from haystack_integrations.components.generators.perplexity import (
PerplexityChatGenerator,
)
chat_generator = PerplexityChatGenerator(streaming_callback=print_streaming_chunk)
response = chat_generator.run(
[ChatMessage.from_user("What's Natural Language Processing? Be brief.")],
)
```
### In a pipeline
```python
from haystack import Pipeline
from haystack.components.builders import ChatPromptBuilder
from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage
from haystack.utils import Secret
from haystack_integrations.components.generators.perplexity import (
PerplexityChatGenerator,
)
prompt_builder = ChatPromptBuilder(
template=[
ChatMessage.from_system("You are a helpful assistant."),
ChatMessage.from_user("Tell me about {{topic}}"),
],
required_variables="*",
)
llm = PerplexityChatGenerator(
api_key=Secret.from_env_var("PERPLEXITY_API_KEY"),
model="openai/gpt-5.4",
)
pipe = Pipeline()
pipe.add_component("prompt_builder", prompt_builder)
pipe.add_component("llm", llm)
pipe.connect("prompt_builder.prompt", "llm.messages")
result = pipe.run(
data={"prompt_builder": {"topic": "large language models"}},
)
print(result["llm"]["replies"][0].text)
```