CLIP Interrogator

MultimodalAvailable
by CommunityModel ID: clip-interrogator

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.

Price
β‰ˆ $0.0457/run
Input β†’ output
Text + Image β†’ Text
Developer
Community
Updated
September 23, 2026
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Playground

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Input & output

β‰ˆ $0.0457/run
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Image to interrogate

Advanced settings (1)
Output
The answer appears here.

This run

about $0.0457 Β· 4.57 credits

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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.
  • InputInput

    No text prompt: the model only takes the input shown.

    Response

    a watercolor painting of a sea turtle, a digital painting, by Kubisi art, featured on dribbble, medibang, warm saturated palette, red and green tones, turquoise horizon, digital art h 9 6 0, detailed scenery β€”width 672, illustration:.4, spray art, artstatiom

  • InputInput

    No text prompt: the model only takes the input shown.

    Response

    a painting of a field with green grass, by Vincent Van Gogh, featured on deviantart, windy day, virtuosic level detail, the front of a trading card, loosely cropped, expansive, tendrils in the background, photo courtesy museum of art, 1980s art, standing on a hill, creative commons attribution

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About CLIP Interrogator

TL;DRAs of September 23, 2026

CLIP Interrogator is a model by Community in the Multimodal category. On Railwail, CLIP Interrogator costs β‰ˆ $0.0457 per run.

CLIP Interrogator pairs a BLIP caption model with CLIP embedding search over large lists of artists, mediums, movements and modifiers. For a given image it returns a descriptive prompt plus the best-matching tags, which is useful for recreating a similar image in a text-to-image model or for tagging and indexing pictures.
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Pricing

Prices in US dollars. Usage is charged from prepaid credits.
Typical run (β‰ˆ 169 s on T4)$0.0457 per run
GPU time (T4)$0.00027 per GPU second
  • Billed by the GPU time the run actually takes. When the run starts, 3Γ— the typical price is reserved from your balance and settled afterwards.
  • 1 credit = $0.01

Cost calculator

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s

Typical according to the provider: about 168.9 s

Total

$4.57

457 credits

Per run

$0.0457 Β· 4.57 credits

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

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API

Call CLIP Interrogator 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
clip-interrogator
Developer
Community
Category
Multimodal
Input
Text, Image
Output
Text
Billing
By usage (tokens or GPU time)
Catalog entry updated
September 23, 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.

  • imagerequired

    Image to interrogate

    Type: Text
    Default: –
    Allowed values: –
  • mode
    Type: Choice
    Default: best
    Allowed values: best, fast, classic, or negative
  • clip_model_name
    Type: Text
    Default: ViT-L-14/openai
    Allowed values: –

Tags

  • replicate
  • clip-interrogator
  • captioning
  • tagging
  • clip
  • blip
  • prompt-generation
  • image
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Frequently asked questions

What is CLIP Interrogator?

CLIP Interrogator is a model by Community in the Multimodal category.

How much does CLIP Interrogator cost on Railwail?

On Railwail, CLIP Interrogator costs β‰ˆ $0.0457 per run. You are charged for what each request actually uses. Usage is paid from prepaid credits; 1 credit equals $0.01.

Which settings does CLIP Interrogator support?

According to its input schema, CLIP Interrogator knows these parameters: image, mode (best, fast, classic, or negative), and clip_model_name.

How fast is CLIP Interrogator?

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

Is CLIP Interrogator better than BLIP?

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

Compare CLIP Interrogator and BLIP

Can CLIP Interrogator process images?

Yes. CLIP Interrogator accepts images as input in addition to text.

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All models through one API

One API key for every model on Railwail. Usage is charged from prepaid credits, 1 credit = $0.01.