# NVIDIA NIM Vision Language Models API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-vision-api/  
**Provider:** NVIDIA NIM — https://apis.io/providers/nvidia-nim/  
**Base URL:** https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1  
**Documentation:** https://docs.api.nvidia.com/nim/reference/vlm-apis

NVIDIA NIM Vision Language Models API is one of 11 APIs that [NVIDIA NIM](https://apis.io/providers/nvidia-nim/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Vision, Multi-Modal, and VLM. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Vision-language model inference through the standard /v1/chat/completions surface with image inputs (base64 or URL) in the messages payload. Supports NVIDIA NeVA, microsoft/kosmos-2, Phi-3-vision, llama-3.2-90b-vision-instruct, and other VLMs hosted in the NIM catalog.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.api.nvidia.com/nim/reference/vlm-apis
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nvidia-nim/refs/heads/main/openapi/nvidia-nim-vision-api-openapi.yml

## Other NVIDIA NIM APIs (10)

- [NVIDIA NIM Completions API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-completions-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Embeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-embeddings-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Reranking API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-reranking-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Models API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-models-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Health API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-health-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Biology (BioNeMo) API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-biology-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM ASR API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-asr-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Chat API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-chat-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM Images API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-images-api/)
- [NVIDIA NIM TTS API](https://apis.io/apis/nvidia-nim/nvidia-nim-tts-api/)

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Vision, Multi-Modal, VLM

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