BLIP Image Captioning Large

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Salesforce BLIP large checkpoint for image captioning, served through Hugging Face Inference. Given a photo it returns a short English caption. The large variant gives more accurate captions than the base model and is a common drop-in for alt-text and image indexing.

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Input → output: Text + Image → Text
Developer: Salesforce
Updated: 23 September 2026

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About BLIP Image Captioning Large

TL;DRAs of 23 September 2026

BLIP Image Captioning Large is a model by Salesforce in the Multimodal category. BLIP Image Captioning Large is currently not available on Railwail.

This is the captioning-tuned large BLIP checkpoint hosted on Hugging Face. It runs the image-to-text pipeline and returns a single concise caption per image. Useful when you want a lightweight, hosted captioner without managing a GPU, for example to generate alt-text, seed search indexes or bootstrap training labels.

Pricing

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API

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Specifications

Model ID: blip-image-captioning-large
Developer: Salesforce
Category: Multimodal
Input: Text, Image
Output: Text
Catalog entry updated: 23 September 2026

Input parameters

Inputs and settings from the model's input schema. The example in the API section shows which of them the API accepts.

ParameterTypeDefaultAllowed values

imagerequired
Image to caption
Type: Text
Default: –
Allowed values: –

Frequently asked questions

What is BLIP Image Captioning Large?

BLIP Image Captioning Large is a model by Salesforce in the Multimodal category. It is listed on Railwail but cannot be run at the moment.

How much does BLIP Image Captioning Large cost on Railwail?

BLIP Image Captioning Large cannot be run on Railwail at the moment, so there is no current price. Available alternatives with prices are listed further down this page.

Which settings does BLIP Image Captioning Large support?

According to its input schema, BLIP Image Captioning Large knows these parameters: image.

How fast is BLIP Image Captioning Large?

There are not enough measured runs of BLIP Image Captioning Large on Railwail yet to state a run time. It depends on the input, the settings and the load at the provider.

Is BLIP Image Captioning Large better than BLIP?

That depends on the task. BLIP Image Captioning Large (Salesforce) and BLIP (Salesforce) are both models in the Multimodal category. The comparison page shows their prices and specifications side by side.

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Can BLIP Image Captioning Large process images?

Yes. BLIP Image Captioning Large accepts images as input in addition to text.

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