openrouter-image-generation

To extract images from an OpenRouter chat completions response, locate the image data within the choices[0].message.images array and decode the base64 data URL from the image_url.url field to retrieve a usable image payload.

OpenRouter image generation parsing errors often occur because the image data appears in an unexpected location like choices[0].message.images. Correctly targeting this array and decoding the base64 data URL resolves the parsing failure.

No, OpenRouter image generation models like google/gemini-2.5-flash-image use the chat/completions endpoint rather than /images/generations, requiring specific response parsing to extract the generated image successfully.

To decode base64 data URLs from OpenRouter image responses, parse the image_url.url property located in the message.images array and convert the base64 encoded string into a usable image file format.

Yes, you can use google/gemini-2.5-flash-image with the OpenRouter API by sending requests through the chat/completions endpoint and parsing the choices[0].message.images array to extract the base64 encoded image output.