# VLM Run

> The unified gateway for visual intelligence. Orion, our flagship visual agent, understands, reasons over, and acts on images, video, and documents through a single API.

Key terms: Visual Intelligence, Vision-Language Model, VLM, Orion, Visual Agent, Document OCR, Structured Output, Visual Grounding, HIPAA, SOC 2, Computer Vision, Multimodal AI, Visual ETL, API

## Product

- [Homepage](https://vlm.run): Overview of Orion, the visual agent that sees, reasons, and acts on images, video, and documents.
- [Product](https://vlm.run/product): Build, run, and operate visual AI across images, documents, and video with production-grade accuracy, observability, and control.
- [Pricing](https://vlm.run/pricing): Dollar billing for Orion agents, models, and tools. Start free with a $10 balance.
- [Chat Playground](https://chat.vlm.run): Try Orion in a hosted chat interface.
- [API Docs](https://docs.vlm.run): Developer documentation, API reference, and quickstart guides.

## Documentation

- [Documentation llms.txt](https://docs.vlm.run/llms.txt): Machine-readable index of all docs pages with markdown URLs for AI crawlers and agents.
- [Docs Introduction](https://docs.vlm.run/introduction): What VLM Run is and how to extract structured JSON from images, video, and documents.
- [Ways to Use VLM Run](https://docs.vlm.run/ways-to-use-vlm-run): Requests, Executions, Chat Completions API, and Chat UI — when to use each entry point.
- [Orion Agents](https://docs.vlm.run/agents/introduction): VLM Run Orion visual agent: sees, reasons, and acts on images, video, and documents.
- [API Pricing (Docs)](https://docs.vlm.run/pricing): Dollar API pricing: token rates, fixed-price tools, grounding, service tiers, and examples.
- [Parsing Invoices Guide](https://docs.vlm.run/guides/doc-ai/guide-parsing-invoices): Step-by-step guide to extract structured invoice data from PDFs and images.

## Solutions

- [Healthcare](https://vlm.run/solutions/healthcare): Turn faxes, scans, and clinical paperwork into clean, validated data. HIPAA-ready visual agent for prior auth, intake, and claims.
- [Construction](https://vlm.run/solutions/construction): Read blueprints, invoices, and jobsite photos. Automate takeoffs, progress tracking, and compliance.
- [Insurance](https://vlm.run/solutions/insurance): Automate claims processing without brittle OCR. Extract, reason, and validate claims data across documents and images.
- [Real Estate](https://vlm.run/solutions/real-estate): Make property data usable instantly. Extract lease terms, normalize rent rolls, and analyze listing images.
- [Media & Entertainment](https://vlm.run/solutions/media-entertainment): Make massive media libraries searchable. Auto-tag, index, and summarize images and video at scale.
- [SaaS](https://vlm.run/solutions/saas): Turn session recordings into structured UX insights. Understand video without watching it.
- [Multimodal Intelligence](https://vlm.run/solutions/multimodal-intelligence): Deploy and orchestrate vLLM and vision models through one production API without building the stack.

## Open Source

- [vlmrun-hub](https://vlm.run/open-source/vlmrun-hub): Production-ready Pydantic schemas for Visual ETL. Extract structured, validated data from any VLM.
- [vlmbench](https://vlm.run/open-source/vlmbench): Benchmark any vision-language model on your hardware with a single command.
- [mm](https://vlm.run/open-source/mm): Fast multimodal context for agents. UNIX-style tools with multimodal powers.
- [autovllm](https://vlm.run/open-source/autovllm): Optimized vLLM for production VLM inference with LRU caching and Triton kernel fusions.

## Resources

- [Blog](https://vlm.run/blog): Case studies, product updates, and technical posts from VLM Run.
- [FAQ](https://vlm.run/faq): Answers about Orion, pricing, healthcare, construction, security, and enterprise deployment.
- [About](https://vlm.run/about): VLM Run builds the gateway towards visual intelligence for enterprise teams.
- [Orion Whitepaper](https://storage.googleapis.com/vlm-data-public-prod/web/assets/vlmrun-orion-whitepaper-latest.pdf): Technical overview of Orion architecture and capabilities.

## Developers

- [Cookbooks](https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-cookbook): Example workflows and integration patterns for the VLM Run API.
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/AMApC2UzVY): Community support and product discussion.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/vlm-run): Open-source repositories, SDKs, and cookbooks.

## Company

- [Trust Center](https://trust.vlm.run): SOC 2, HIPAA, security, and compliance documentation.
- [Careers](https://app.dover.com/VLM%20Run/careers/a63ca8a3-0866-4a36-88a7-b755a9b4aef3): Open positions at VLM Run.

## Optional

- [RSS Feed](https://vlm.run/blog/feed.xml): Blog syndication feed.
- [Orion 2: Frontier Visual Agents with Code Execution](https://vlm.run/blog/orion-2): Orion 2, our most capable visual agent, writes and executes vision programs on the fly – faster, cheaper, more reliable.
- [How Scan.com Automates Document Workflows with VLM Run's Orion](https://vlm.run/blog/scan-com-case-study): VLM Run helps AI teams turn images, documents, and video into structured JSON – so you can ship reliable visual agents in production within hours.
- [Introducing Artifacts Support for Orion](https://vlm.run/blog/introducing-orion-artifacts): VLM Run helps AI teams turn images, documents, and video into structured JSON – so you can ship reliable visual agents in production within hours.
- [Automating PII and PHI Compliance with VLM Run’s Redaction API](https://vlm.run/blog/document-redaction): VLM Run helps AI teams turn images, documents, and video into structured JSON – so you can ship reliable visual agents in production within hours.
- [Building Video-based RAG with VLM Run](https://vlm.run/blog/video-rag): VLM Run helps AI teams turn images, documents, and video into structured JSON – so you can ship reliable visual agents in production within hours.