## Image-Text to Text

Image-text-to-text models take in an image and text prompt and output text. These models are also called vision-language models, or VLMs. The difference from image-to-text models is that these models take an additional text input, not restricting the model to certain use cases like image captioning, and may also be trained to accept a conversation as input.

> [!TIP]
> For more details about the `image-text-to-text` task, check out its [dedicated page](https://huggingface.co/tasks/image-text-to-text)! You will find examples and related materials.

### Recommended models

- [zai-org/GLM-4.5V](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5V): Cutting-edge reasoning vision language model.
- [Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct): Small yet powerful model.

Explore all available models and find the one that suits you best [here](https://huggingface.co/models?inference=warm&pipeline_tag=image-text-to-text&sort=trending).

### Using the API

<InferenceSnippet
    pipeline=image-text-to-text
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conversational />

### API specification

For the API specification of conversational image-text-to-text models, please refer to the [Chat Completion API documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/tasks/chat-completion#api-specification).