Glimpse overview
Glimpse by Elorian
This multimodal model reasons directly over visual data to support complex tasks. It accepts text, image, and video inputs to provide comprehensive text responses.
Glimpse specs
- Model ID
elorian/glimpse- Developer
- Elorian
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 256,000 tokens
- Input
- Image, Text, Video
- Output
- Text
- API
- OpenAI-compatible, base URL
https://api.aimlapi.com/v1
What Is Glimpse API?
Glimpse is a multimodal visual reasoning model developed by Elorian. It is built to facilitate deep visual understanding and reasoning within the physical world.
The model functions as a chat interface that processes various input types. It is engineered to handle complex visual data through its specialized architecture.
Multimodal Input
The model accepts text, image, and video inputs to generate text outputs.
Visual Reasoning
Glimpse is built for direct visual understanding and reasoning in the physical world.
Extended Context
The model supports a context window of 256K tokens.
Advanced Capabilities
Features include streaming, structured output, tools, and vision support.
Use cases
Analyzing complex video content for visual insights.
Interpreting images to provide detailed text descriptions.
Performing visual reasoning tasks in physical world contexts.
Generating structured text output from multimodal inputs.
Capabilities
- Streaming
- Structured outputs
- Function calling
- Vision
Glimpse API pricing
| Usage | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.6348 | 1M tokens |
| Output | $3.17 | 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.0635 | 1M tokens |
Prices from the AI/ML API price list, checked on Nov 4, 2026.
Glimpse vs other models: token prices
AI/ML API input and output rates for 5 models, per million tokens.
| Model | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| $0.6348 | $3.17 | |
| $0.529 | $3.17 | |
| $1.06 | $3.17 | |
| $1.06 | $3.17 | |
| Search | $1.06 | $3.17 |
How to use the Glimpse API
View docsBuild with your agent
Give your agent the model details, code and documentation.
1Get your API key
Create API keyexport AIMLAPI_KEY="8f2b4c7d9a1e6b3f…"2Make your first request
curl 'https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"model": "elorian/glimpse",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."
}
]
}'import os
import requests
headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AIMLAPI_KEY']}",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
payload = {
"model": "elorian/glimpse",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."
}
]
}
response = requests.post("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=120)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())const response = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"model": "elorian/glimpse",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."
}
]
}),
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
console.log(await response.json());Related articles
Glimpse FAQ
How much does Glimpse cost?
Glimpse costs $0.6348 input and $3.17 output per 1M tokens on AI/ML API, billed as you go with no subscription.
What inputs does Glimpse accept?
Glimpse accepts text, image, and video inputs.
What is the context window size?
The model supports a context window of 256K tokens.
Who developed Glimpse?
Glimpse was developed by Elorian.
What kind of output does the model provide?
The model returns text output based on the provided inputs.
What is the Glimpse model ID?
Use elorian/glimpse as the model parameter. Requests go to the OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your AI/ML API key.

