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Clarifai

1,000 free operations a month on a deep catalogue of pretrained vision models

Clarifai is a full AI platform whose API exposes pretrained models for image and video recognition, object detection, face detection, OCR, NSFW moderation and embeddings, plus custom model training. You call a model by owner/app/model id and pass image bytes or a URL. The Community plan includes a recurring monthly free allowance.

Free tier

Community plan: 1,000 free operations/month (email-verified); Essential from $30/mo, Professional $300/mo

Rate limits

Throughput tied to plan; specific per-second limits not published

Auth

API key

Base URL

https://api.clarifai.com

What you'd build with it

  • Tag and concept-classify images with a pretrained model
  • Run NSFW/moderation checks on user uploads
  • Generate image embeddings for visual similarity search

Key endpoints

  • POST/v2/users/{user_id}/apps/{app_id}/models/{model_id}/outputsRun a model (e.g. clarifai/main general-image-recognition) on an image
  • POST/v2/inputsAdd inputs (images/text) to an app for indexing or training
Members

Members get the runnable recipe

Sign in free to copy the example request, see a sample response, and read the gotchas.

Tags

visionimage-recognitionmoderationembeddingsocr