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Get started with Image:  Open In Colab   Get started with Video:  Open In Colab Isaac 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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Test Isaac in your browser — no code required

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Try Isaac in 30 seconds

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": "isaac-0.3-max",
  "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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Explore our developer guides

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 Isaac to image tasks with a handful of examples

In-Context Learning (Video)

Adapt Isaac to video tasks with a handful of examples

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Models overview

ModelBest forSpeedLatest update
isaac-0.3-maxImage & Video, reasoning enabledStandard05/11/2026
isaac-0.2-2b-previewImage, reasoning enabledFast12/10/2025
isaac-0.2-1bImage, low-latency, edge deploymentFastest12/10/2025
isaac-0.1Images (legacy support)Fast09/17/2025

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isaac-0.3-max

Best-in-class VLM with reasoning. Accepts image and video inputs.
  • Model ID: isaac-0.3-max
  • Context: 32K tokens
  • Reasoning: Yes
  • Pricing: $0.20/M input, $1.50/M output
  • Closed source

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isaac-0.2-2b-preview

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

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isaac-0.2-1b

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

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isaac-0.1

Original 2B VLM, still supported for existing integrations.

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Benchmarks

isaac-0.2 benchmark comparison