Image-Text to Text

Image-text-to-text models take in an image and text prompt and output text. These models are also called vision-language models, or VLMs. The difference from image-to-text models is that these models take an additional text input, not restricting the model to certain use cases like image captioning, and may also be trained to accept a conversation as input.

For more details about the image-text-to-text task, check out its dedicated page! You will find examples and related materials.

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Using the API

Language

Client

Provider

Settings

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://router.huggingface.co/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["HF_TOKEN"],
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct:cerebras",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [
                {
                    "type": "text",
                    "text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
                },
                {
                    "type": "image_url",
                    "image_url": {
                        "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
)

print(completion.choices[0].message)

API specification

For the API specification of conversational image-text-to-text models, please refer to the Chat Completion API documentation.

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