OpenRouter's Unified Image API gives developers a common way to request images while exposing the differences that still matter between models. An application can query which settings a model accepts, then inspect a particular provider's supported options and billing units before sending a generation request.
That discovery step is useful because a shared interface does not make every model accept the same image dimensions, reference inputs or streamingSending a model's response token by token as it is generated, so the reader sees text immediately instead of waiting for the whole answer.Full definition → options. Software can adapt its controls and validate requests from the returned capability information, instead of maintaining a separate set of assumptions for every provider.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
streaming — Sending a model's response token by token as it is generated, so the reader sees text immediately instead of waiting for the whole answer.
