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How to Send an Image to an LLM via API (Vision Guide)

calendar_today August 14, 2026 domain openrouter

To get a model to read a screenshot, you need the right request body. This guide shows the content-array pattern that works across every vision-capable model we support, when to use base64 instead of a hosted URL, and how to build multimodal RAG on top of it.

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