Strict OpenAI Compliance

By default, all the responses sent back from Portkey 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:

Python SDK: Pass this parameter strict_open_ai_compliance=false when initializing the portkey client
Node SDK: Pass this parameter strictOpenAiCompliance: false when initializing the portkey client
HTTP requests: Pass this header x-portkey-strict-open-ai-compliance: false with your request

By default strict_open_ai_compliance=false in Portkey Python and Node SDK

Python SDK
Node SDK
cURL
OpenAI python
OpenAI Node SDK

from portkey_ai import Portkey

portkey = Portkey(
    api_key="PORTKEY_API_KEY",
    provider="@PROVIDER", 
    strict_open_ai_compliance=False
)

import Portkey from 'portkey-ai'

const portkey = new Portkey({
    apiKey: "PORTKEY_API_KEY",
    provider:"@PROVIDER",
    strictOpenAiCompliance: false
})

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

from openai import OpenAI
from portkey_ai import PORTKEY_GATEWAY_URL, createHeaders

openai = OpenAI(
    api_key='OPENAI_API_KEY',
    base_url=PORTKEY_GATEWAY_URL,
    default_headers=createHeaders(
        provider="openai",
        api_key="PORTKEY_API_KEY"
        strict_open_ai_compliance=False
    )
)

import OpenAI from 'openai'; // We're using the v4 SDK
import { PORTKEY_GATEWAY_URL, createHeaders } from 'portkey-ai'

const openai = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: 'OPENAI_API_KEY', // defaults to process.env["OPENAI_API_KEY"],
  baseURL: PORTKEY_GATEWAY_URL,
  defaultHeaders: createHeaders({
    provider: "openai",
    apiKey: "PORTKEY_API_KEY", // defaults to process.env["PORTKEY_API_KEY"],
    strictOpenAiCompliance: false
  })
});

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