Glimpse API

Glimpse is a multimodal visual reasoning model from Elorian designed for complex visual understanding.

Modalities
Image, Text, VideoText
In / Out price
$0.6348/$3.17per 1M
Context window
256K tokens
Released
Oct 17, 2026

Glimpse overview

The pelican test: one prompt, every text model, unedited SVG output from Nov 3, 2026.

SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle, written by Glimpse through AI/ML API

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

Glimpse pricing in US dollars
UsagePriceUnit
Input$0.63481M tokens
Output$3.171M tokens
Cached input$0.06351M 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.

AI/ML API model prices in USD per million tokens
ModelInputOutput
Glimpse$0.6348$3.17
Seed 2.0 Code$0.529$3.17
Hermes 4 405B$1.06$3.17
Kimi K2 0905 Preview$1.06$3.17
Search$1.06$3.17

How to use the Glimpse API

View docs

Build with your agent

Give your agent the model details, code and documentation.

1Get your API key

Create API key
export 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."
    }
  ]
}'

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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.

Start building with Glimpse

Glimpse API

elorian/glimpse

Build with your agent

Give your agent the model details, code and documentation.

1Get your API key

Create API key
export 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."
    }
  ]
}'