Grounded-SAM

MultimodalAvailable
by CommunityModel ID: grounded-sam

Grounding DINO plus SAM. Open-vocabulary text-prompted detection and segmentation in one pipeline for fully-automatic mask generation.

Price
โ‰ˆ $0.0015/run
Input โ†’ output
Text + Image โ†’ Text
Developer
Community
Updated
September 23, 2026
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Playground

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Examples

Real outputs from the public examples of this model on Replicate, with the prompt and settings that produced them. They were not generated live on this page.
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About Grounded-SAM

TL;DRAs of September 23, 2026

Grounded-SAM is a model by Community in the Multimodal category. On Railwail, Grounded-SAM costs โ‰ˆ $0.0015 per run.

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Pricing

Prices in US dollars. Usage is charged from prepaid credits.
Typical run (โ‰ˆ 1 s on L40S)$0.0015 per run
GPU time (L40S)$0.00117 per GPU second
  • Billed by the GPU time the run actually takes. When the run starts, 3ร— the typical price is reserved from your balance and settled afterwards.
  • 1 credit = $0.01

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Per run

$0.0015 ยท 0.15 credits

Billed by the actual GPU time; this is an estimate.

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API

Call Grounded-SAM with your Railwail API key. Use this model ID in the request:

No verified API example

The public API passes a different input format than this model needs. Use the playground above.

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Specifications

Model ID
grounded-sam
Developer
Community
Category
Multimodal
Input
Text, Image
Output
Text
Billing
By usage (tokens or GPU time)
Catalog entry updated
September 23, 2026

Tags

  • replicate
  • segmentation
  • vision-understanding
  • open-vocabulary
  • open-source
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Frequently asked questions

What is Grounded-SAM?

Grounded-SAM is a model by Community in the Multimodal category.

How much does Grounded-SAM cost on Railwail?

On Railwail, Grounded-SAM costs โ‰ˆ $0.0015 per run. You are charged for what each request actually uses. Usage is paid from prepaid credits; 1 credit equals $0.01.

How fast is Grounded-SAM?

There are not enough measured runs of Grounded-SAM on Railwail yet to state a run time. It depends on the input, the settings and the load at the provider.

Is Grounded-SAM better than BLIP?

That depends on the task. Grounded-SAM (Community) and BLIP (Salesforce) are both models in the Multimodal category. The comparison page shows their prices and specifications side by side.

Compare Grounded-SAM and BLIP

Can Grounded-SAM process images?

Yes. Grounded-SAM accepts images as input in addition to text.

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  • BLIPSalesforce

    Salesforce BLIP. Vision-language model for image captioning and visual question answering. Given an image it writes a short natural-language caption, or answers a question about the image when one is supplied. A widely used baseline for automatic captioning.

    โ‰ˆ $0.00030/run

    80 % cheaper per unit

    Compare Grounded-SAM vs. BLIP
  • pharmapsychotic's CLIP Interrogator. Takes an image and produces a Stable-Diffusion-style text prompt by combining BLIP captioning with CLIP to rank likely subjects, artists, mediums and styles. Commonly used to reverse-engineer a prompt from an existing picture.

    โ‰ˆ $0.0457/run

    2,947 % more expensive per unit

    Compare Grounded-SAM vs. CLIP Interrogator
  • Monocular depth-estimation model trained on 595k labeled and 62M unlabeled images. Strong zero-shot generalization in indoor and outdoor scenes.

    โ‰ˆ $0.0050/run

    233 % more expensive per unit

    Compare Grounded-SAM vs. Depth Anything v2

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