What is CLIP good for?

Text-to-image search, similar-image search, zero-shot image tagging and deduplicating image collections.

How do I access clip from inside Iran?

Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

clip: AI model

CLIP turns images and text into comparable embeddings for search and matching. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Pricing:: ~$0.000975 / sec (Nvidia L40S GPU)
Type:: embedding

Embeddings

CLIP is OpenAI's classic model for embedding images and text in the same vector space, so a sentence and a picture that mean the same thing land close together. That makes it a simple tool for searching images by text, finding similar images and tagging pictures without training a classifier.

It is billed by compute time per run, at the rate shown on this page. Through Hormouz you send text or an image to POST /v1/predictions and receive the embedding.

Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"openai/clip","input":"The quick brown fox"}'

Specs

Vendor	OpenAI
Type	Embedding
Context window	—
Pricing	~$0.000975 / sec (Nvidia L40S GPU)
API	embeddings

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"openai/clip","input":"The quick brown fox"}'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
resp = client.embeddings.create(model="openai/clip", input="The quick brown fox")
print(resp.data[0].embedding)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const resp = await client.embeddings.create({
  model: "openai/clip",
  input: "The quick brown fox",
});
console.log(resp.data[0].embedding);

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FAQ

What is CLIP good for?: Text-to-image search, similar-image search, zero-shot image tagging and deduplicating image collections.
How do I access clip from inside Iran?: Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Updated 2026-10-13