Vision — images in requests

Send images to /v1/chat/completions via image_url or base64. Works with Claude and GPT-5.6. Examples in curl, Python and Node.js.

Pass an image along with a text request to /v1/chat/completions — the model describes the contents, answers questions about the image or analyzes a screenshot. Both URLs and base64 are supported.

Supported models

Parameter	Type	Description
`claude-opus-5.5 / claude-sonnet-5.5`	Claude	Full vision support — URL and base64.
`gpt-6.1-sol`	GPT	URL and base64. Best for documents and diagrams.

The image must be publicly reachable by URL — or passed in base64. Private URLs (signed S3, internal networks) should be passed as base64.

Request format

The content field becomes an array of blocks: text and image_url.

curl https://getvibeapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GETVIBE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-opus-5.5",
    "max_tokens": 256,
    "messages": [{
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {"type": "text", "text": "What is in the picture? Describe it briefly."},
        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/photo.jpg"}}
      ]
    }]
  }'

Base64 — without a public URL

For private images, encode the file to base64 and pass it as a data URL:

# base64 — for private images without a public URL
curl https://getvibeapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GETVIBE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-6.1-sol",
    "max_tokens": 256,
    "messages": [{
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {"type": "text", "text": "What is in the picture?"},
        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQ..."}}
      ]
    }]
  }'

image_url parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`url`req.	string	Public image URL or data:image/jpeg;base64,… for base64.
`detail`	"auto" \| "low" \| "high"	Analysis detail (GPT only). "auto" by default. "high" — more tokens, better quality.

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