Native video understanding.One API.

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In-Video AI + Agents

Every video searchable, clip-ready, understood.

Understand, summarize, segment, and search video — switch capabilities and click results to seek.

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UNDERSTAND

Know what happens in every frame.

Read scenes, actions, speech, and on-screen text together, and get structured JSON describing what the footage actually shows.

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Orion
from openai import OpenAI

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

response = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="vlmrun-orion-2:auto",
  messages=[{
    "role": "user",
    "content": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Summarize key moments with timestamps.",
      },
      {
        "type": "video_url",
        "video_url": {"url": "footage.mp4"},
      },
    ],
  }],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

API & SDK

Bring video intelligence into your own product.

Use cases

Built for real footage.

Robot demonstrations, unlabeled archives, long-form media, sensitive records. Same call, same time-anchored output.

Media & Entertainment

Work through an archive instead of a timeline. Long-form footage comes back as sampled frames, scored moments, and trimmed segments, so editors pull an edit-ready cut without scrubbing the master file.

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  • 0:01sampled 12 keyframes from master
  • 0:03segment scored for highlight reel
  • 0:04trimmed cut exported with watermark

Pricing calculator

Video understanding by the hour.

Pick a workload, footage volume, and model. See cost savings versus vendors that bill every second of the timeline.

Footage volume / month

Gateway billed tokens (in / out)

2.4B - 3.5B / 300M

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite billed tokens (in / out)

10.4B / 600M

Total costwhat the gateway bills for this workload

$335 - $2K

Total cost savingsvs the cheapest frontier model

$2.7K - $4.3K

Video / month

10Khours

Cost comparison (log scale)

Cheapest - most expensive
VLM Run Gateway
Native Video
$335 - $2K
Frontier Multimodal LLMs
Native Video (Gemini)
$4.6K - $28.1K
Frontier LLMs
Sampled Video (Claude, GPT)
$6.3K - $71.1K
Video AI APIs
Rekognition, Video Intelligence
$19.8K - $60K
$100$1K$10K$100K

For Enterprises

The new visual intelligence layer for your enterprise.

Deploy securely inside your VPC or private cloud — bring video understanding to your infrastructure without shipping footage to a third-party SaaS. SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA-ready.

HIPAA Compliant
AICPA SOC

Video AI FAQs

Caption and summarize clips, transcribe speech with timeline anchors, extract highlights, and search long-form libraries — all through the same OpenAI-compatible API you use for documents and images.

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