One unified API, Any Visual Model.

Document OCR, captioning, and multi-modal chat: every visual capability behind one MCP server.

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Supported providers

  • Google
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • xAI
  • Meta
  • Moonshot
  • Microsoft
  • Qwen
  • DeepSeek
  • ZAI
  • Baidu
  • Roboflow
  • LightOn
  • RedNote
  • USYD
  • Hugging Face
Explore models

21 visual models. One endpoint.

ModelCapabilitiesInputsContextInput / 1MCached Input / 1MOutput / 1M

Muse Glimmer 30B

meta/muse-glimmer-30b
chat
128K$0.35—$1.50

Qwen3.8 27B

qwen/qwen3.8-27b
chat
256K$0.35$0.085$2.55

Unlimited-OCR

baidu/unlimited-ocr
ocrmarkdown
32K$0.25$0.03$0.55

Kimi K3

moonshotai/kimi-k3
chat
256K$3—$15

PP-OCRv6

paddleocr/pp-ocrv6
ocrdetection
—$0.01$0.01$0.20

MiniMax M3

minimax/minimax-m3
chat
1M$0.30—$1.20

PaddleOCR-VL 1.6

paddlepaddle/paddleocr-vl-1.6
ocr
16K$0.15$0.15$0.35

dots.mocr

rednote-hilab/dots.mocr
ocrmarkdown
32K$0.20$0.03$0.40

Gemma 4 26B-A4B Instruct

google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it
chat
128K$0.10—$0.30

Gemma 4 31B Instruct

google/gemma-4-31b-it
chat
128K$0.15—$0.40

Qwen3.5 0.8B

qwen/qwen3.5-0.8b
detectionchat
256K$0.08$0.02$0.15

Infinity-Parser2-Flash

infly/infinity-parser2-flash
markdown
32K$0.25$0.03$0.45

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Pricing calculator

Dirt-cheap Document OCR.

Pick a document type, page volume, and OCR model. See cost savings versus closed vision APIs.

Page volume / month

Gateway OCR tokens (in / out)

120M - 250M / 100M

Frontier billed tokens (in / out)

250M / 200M

2.5K image tokens per page; output includes reasoning at 2× OCR text.

Total costwhat the gateway bills for this workload

$23 - $90

Total cost savingsvs the cheapest frontier model

$848 - $915

Documents / month

100Kpages

Cost comparison (log scale)

Cheapest - most expensive
VLM Run Gateway
Document OCR VLMs
$23 - $90
OCR APIs
Textract, Azure Doc AI
$150 - $1K
Document AI APIs
Reducto, LlamaParse, Extend
$1K - $6K
Frontier VLMs
Gemini, Claude, GPT
$938 - $7.3K
$10$100$1K$10K

Estimates vs typical OCR, Document AI, and frontier VLM pricing.Source: llm-prices.com

A vision-only gateway, built for builders.

LLM routers and gateways route to 100s of LLMs, yet only a handful of VLMs, and often no OCR or classical CV models. Visual AI deserves its own stack.

  • Multimodal, Multitask

    One catalog spanning multi-modal inputs and multi-task outputs: OCR, detection, segmentation, pose, keypoints, and more.

  • Chat Completions Native

    OCR, captioning, and multimodal chat run through the same OpenAI-compatible chat completions API you already use.

  • Orchestration Built-In

    Send a 500-page PDF or a 2-hour video in a single call. The gateway chunks, batches, and reassembles for you. No pipelines to build.

  • Structured Outputs, Out of the Box

    JSON-schema enforcement on every call. CV wrappers emit fixed schemas; VLMs honor response_format.

  • Open Models, No Lock-In

    Every model is open-weight, served through the OpenAI-compatible API you already use. Swap models or providers freely, your client code never changes.

  • Agent-native vision, via MCP

    Give any MCP client instant access to the full visual model catalog. Agents see, read, and reason over images out of the box.

Built for production visual AI.

Optimized for production workloads and cost-efficiency. Every model deployed gets its own performance tune-up.

  • Models Supported

    21

  • p50 Latency

    <100ms

  • Uptime SLA

    99.9%

  • Type II · HIPAA · BAA

    SOC 2

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from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://gateway.vlm.run/v1/openai/",
                api_key="<VLM_RUN_API_KEY>")

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="rednote-hilab/dots.mocr",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [
        {"type": "document_url", "document_url": {"url": "invoice.pdf"}},
    ]}],
    extra_body={"method": "markdown"},
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

# <document page="1">
# ## Invoice #1042
# | Item      | Qty | Amount |
# | API seats |  12 | $1,200 |
# </document>

Vision-native Chat Completions.

Point the OpenAI SDK at the gateway and swap the model, or hand the same catalog to an agent over MCP. Same signature, exhaustive visual model catalog.

Read the DocsDocument OCR

Use cases

What you can build with the Gateway.

Compose vision models like building blocks. One SDK. One key. One bill.

Document ingestion pipelines

Layout, OCR, and markdown extraction across contracts, statements, and forms, at sub-cent per-page economics.

Multi-modal chatbots and agents

Build powerful multi-modal chatbots and agents with VLMs that pack native support for multi-modal inputs such as images, PDFs, or videos in a single chat completion.

Media and asset tagging

Auto-caption, tag, and index large image and video libraries for search, dedup, and recommendations.

Private and regulated deployments

Stand up the whole visual stack inside your own VPC or on-prem, with SSO, RBAC, and audit log export. Regulated data stays inside your boundary, under a BAA, on dedicated capacity you control.

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