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Perceptron Mk1 is a vision-language model that understands images and video. Ask it questions, detect objects, read text, get captions, or clip events — all through a simple API.

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Create an API key

Get your key from the Perceptron platform

Then pick your preferred method:

curl -X POST "https://api.perceptron.inc/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PERCEPTRON_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "perceptron-mk1",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {"type": "video_url", "video_url": {"url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perceptron-ai-inc/perceptron/main/cookbook/_shared/assets/tutorials/isaac_frame_by_frame/surf.mp4"}},
        {"type": "text", "text": "What happens in this video?"}
      ]
    }
  ]
}'

Using Python? Install with pip install perceptron or pip install openai

Supported image formats: JPEG, PNG, WebP — pass a URL or local file path. Supported video formats: MP4, WebM — pass a URL or local file path. For deterministic outputs, add "temperature": 0.0. See API Reference for all parameters.

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Image Q&A

Ask questions about images and get grounded answers

Video Q&A

Ask questions about video and get answers grounded in time

Object Detection

Locate targets with precise bounding boxes

Video Clipping

Find events in video and return start/end timestamps

OCR

Extract text from images and documents

Image Captioning

Generate descriptions of images

In-Context Learning (Image)

Adapt Perceptron Mk1 to image tasks with a handful of examples

In-Context Learning (Video)

Adapt Perceptron Mk1 to video tasks with a handful of examples

Models overview

Model	Best for	Speed	Latest update
`perceptron-mk1`	Image & Video, reasoning enabled	Standard	05/11/2026
`isaac-0.2-2b-preview`	Image, reasoning enabled	Fast	12/10/2025
`isaac-0.2-1b`	Image, low-latency, edge deployment	Fastest	12/10/2025
`isaac-0.1`	Images (legacy support)	Fast	09/17/2025

Model details

Perceptron Mk1

Best-in-class closed-source VLM with reasoning — accepts image and video inputs. (“Mk1” is short for “Mark 1”.)

Model ID: perceptron-mk1
Context: 32K tokens
Reasoning: Yes
Pricing: $0.15/M input, $1.50/M output
Closed source

isaac-0.2-2b-preview

Best-in-class open-weights 2B VLM with reasoning. Sub-200ms time-to-first-token.

Model ID: isaac-0.2-2b-preview
Context: 8K tokens
Reasoning: Yes
Pricing: $0.15/M input, $1.25/M output
Open weights on Hugging Face

isaac-0.2-1b

Compact 1B VLM for edge and low-latency deployments.

Model ID: isaac-0.2-1b
Context: 8K tokens
Reasoning: Yes
Pricing: $0.15/M input, $1.25/M output
Open weights on Hugging Face

isaac-0.1

Original 2B VLM, still supported for existing integrations.

Model ID: isaac-0.1
Context: 8K tokens
Reasoning: No
Pricing: $0.15/M input, $1.25/M output
Open weights on Hugging Face

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