---
id: llama-index-multi-modal-llms-openai
version: "0.6.2"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: aging
---

# llama-index-multi-modal-llms-openai — llama-index multi-modal-llms openai integration

License: permissive · Maintenance: aging · Downloads: 2.8M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package bridges OpenAI's multi-modal capabilities into the LlamaIndex ecosystem. It wraps OpenAI's vision-enabled language models so they can be used as a component within LlamaIndex workflows—allowing you to build applications that reason over both images and text without managing the OpenAI API directly.

The package depends on llama-index-core and llama-index-llms-openai, so it assumes you already have LlamaIndex set up and an OpenAI API key configured. It's designed as a plug-in integration rather than a standalone tool; you use it when you want multi-modal reasoning as part of a larger LlamaIndex pipeline.

Use it for:

- Build a document retrieval system that indexes and reasons over PDFs containing both text and diagrams
- Create a visual question-answering application that processes uploaded images alongside text queries
- Analyze screenshots or charts in a larger data pipeline using LlamaIndex orchestration
- Combine multi-modal reasoning with LlamaIndex agents for tasks requiring image understanding

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Integrates OpenAI's multi-modal language models with LlamaIndex, enabling applications to process and reason over images and text together.

Yes, if you are already using LlamaIndex and need OpenAI's multi-modal models integrated into your pipeline. The low install friction and permissive MIT license make it straightforward to add. However, the aging maintenance status means you should verify that supported OpenAI models and LlamaIndex versions match your requirements before production use.

## Install

pip install llama-index-multi-modal-llms-openai
uv add llama-index-multi-modal-llms-openai
poetry add llama-index-multi-modal-llms-openai

## Installing llama-index-multi-modal-llms-openai

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. Maintenance status is aging—last release was 323 days ago—so expect slower updates to track OpenAI API changes.

License in practice: MIT license permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, making it suitable for most projects.

Quickstart:

pip install llama-index-multi-modal-llms-openai

from llama_index.multi_modal_llms.openai import OpenAIMultiModal

multi_modal_llm = OpenAIMultiModal()

Requires an OpenAI API key configured in your environment and existing LlamaIndex setup with llama-index-core and llama-index-llms-openai installed.

Verify before relying:

- Which OpenAI models are actually supported by version 0.6.2
- Whether this package automatically tracks breaking changes in llama-index-core or llama-index-llms-openai
- Performance characteristics when processing large images or batches
- Current compatibility with the latest llama-index-core and llama-index-llms-openai releases

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: aging
- Downloads: 2.8M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

openai multi-modal llm integration, vision language model llamaindex, image and text processing llm, openai vision api wrapper, multi-modal ai llamaindex plugin, llamaindex-integration, vision-language-models

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