Strict OpenAI Compliance

By default, all the responses sent back from Prisma AIRS AI Gateway are compliant with the OpenAI specification. In some cases, a response from a provider like Perplexity may contain useful fields which do not have a corresponding 1:1 mapping to OpenAI fields. To get those fields in the response, you can do one of the following:

HTTP requests: Pass this header x-portkey-strict-open-ai-compliance: false with your request

By default strict_open_ai_compliance=false in AI Gateway Python and Node SDK

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OpenAI python
OpenAI Node SDK

Add the following header to your request x-portkey-strict-open-ai-compliance: false

from openai import OpenAI

openai = OpenAI(
    api_key="PORTKEY_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://aigw.portkey.ai/v1",
    default_headers={"x-portkey-provider": "openai"}
)

import OpenAI from 'openai'; // We're using the v4 SDK

const openai = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: "PORTKEY_API_KEY", // defaults to process.env["OPENAI_API_KEY"],
  baseURL: "https://aigw.portkey.ai/v1",
  defaultHeaders: {
      "x-portkey-provider": "openai",
      // defaults to process.env["PORTKEY_API_KEY"]
      "x-portkey-strict-open-ai-compliance": false,
  }
});

Last modified on September 15, 2026

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