Get an API key: Perplexity

The Perplexity API is a separate product with its own account object, which Perplexity calls an API group. It carries its own credit balance and its own bill. Paying for the consumer assistant grants no API credit.

The API group and its credits

Billing is pay-as-you-go against credits. Adding a payment method charges nothing by itself; adding credit is what funds the group. At zero balance the group's keys stop working, so top up before the first answer. That balance is the limit; the billing dashboard at console.perplexity.ai shows it.

Finding the keys page

1. Sign in at console.perplexity.ai. The app still links the older perplexity.ai/settings/api path, which arrives at the same portal.
2. Select your API group, then open the keys page from the sidebar (Perplexity's own description).
3. Create the key and copy it while it is on screen.

Where Big-AGI wants it

Open Models (Ctrl + Shift + M); press More Services if the Setup AI Models wizard is what you land on. Then Add -> Perplexity, paste into Perplexity API Key, and press Models to populate the list (add and manage your keys).

Direct Connection

Direct Connection can be turned on once the key is in the browser. It starts off.

Related

• Connect an AI service
• Direct Connection