BLIP Image Captioning Large
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.
BLIP Image Captioning Large is multimodal AI model from huggingface, priced at β¬0.000 per 1M input tokens with a unknown context window.
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API Integration
Use our OpenAI-compatible API to integrate BLIP Image Captioning Large into your application.
npm install railwailimport railwail from "railwail";
const rw = railwail("YOUR_API_KEY");
// Simple β just pass a string
const reply = await rw.run("blip-image-captioning-large", "Hello! What can you do?");
console.log(reply);
// With message history
const reply2 = await rw.run("blip-image-captioning-large", [
{ role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." },
{ role: "user", content: "Explain quantum computing simply." },
]);
console.log(reply2);
// Full response with usage info
const res = await rw.chat("blip-image-captioning-large", [
{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" },
], { temperature: 0.7, max_tokens: 500 });
console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);
console.log(res.usage);Frequently asked questions
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