OpenAI
CLIP
Pioneering model for connecting text and images.
Zero-shot image classificationImage-text similarityFoundation for many multimodal systemsEfficient
Today's score
84.0
Where it ranks today
Best for / Not great for
Best for
- Zero-shot image classification
- Image retrieval based on text queries
- Content moderation
- Building multimodal search systems
Not great for
- Generating images or text
- Understanding complex scenes compositionally
- Audio or video analysis
Why it ranks here
Though older, CLIP's fundamental approach to connecting text and images via contrastive learning remains highly relevant and is often integrated into newer, more complex multimodal systems. Its robustness and efficiency in zero-shot tasks keep it a valuable component.
30-day trend
Score breakdown
Search trends84
Benchmarks85
Developer buzz83
News mentions84
Pricing
API: $0.00 in · $0.00 out per 1M tokens · Consumer: $0.00/mo
Pricing plans
Popular
Open Source Model
Foundation for multimodal AI.
Free
- Image and text embeddings
- Zero-shot capabilities
- Open-source code
- Permissive license
Hugging Face Integration
Easily use CLIP models.
Free
- Pre-trained models
- Transformers library support
- Community pipelines