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sidebar_position: 30
title: "Perplexity"
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:::warning

This tutorial is a community contribution and is not supported by the Open WebUI team. It serves only as a demonstration on how to customize Open WebUI for your specific use case. Want to contribute? Check out the contributing tutorial.

:::

## Perplexity API

:::info

Perplexity API in this tutorial is using Perplexity's own models, as opposed to just the websearch API. Conduct the other tutorial for the web search API.

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### Setup

1. Navigate to: `Admin Panel` -> `Settings` -> `Web Search`
2. Toggle `Enable Web Search`
3. Set `Web Search Engine` from dropdown menu to `perplexity`
4. Enter your Perplexity API key from [Perplexity API Key management](https://www.perplexity.ai/account/api/keys).
5. Press save