diff --git a/src/deepsparse/clip/sample_classes.txt b/src/deepsparse/clip/sample_classes.txt
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+ice cream
+an elephant
+a dog
+a building
+a church
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diff --git a/src/deepsparse/clip/sample_images.txt b/src/deepsparse/clip/sample_images.txt
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+/absolute/path/to/your_image.jpg
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diff --git a/src/deepsparse/clip/validation.py b/src/deepsparse/clip/validation.py
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+# Copyright (c) 2021 - present / Neuralmagic, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import warnings
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Union
+
+import click
+import numpy as np
+
+from deepsparse.clip import (
+    CLIPCaptionInput,
+    CLIPTextInput,
+    CLIPVisualInput,
+    CLIPZeroShotInput,
+)
+from deepsparse.pipeline import DEEPSPARSE_ENGINE, ORT_ENGINE, BasePipeline
+
+
+@click.command(
+    context_settings=(
+        dict(token_normalize_func=lambda x: x.replace("-", "_"), show_default=True)
+    )
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--visual-model",
+    required=True,
+    help="Path to the CLIP visual onnx model.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--text-model",
+    required=True,
+    help="Path to the CLIP text onnx model.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--decoder-model",
+    required=False,
+    help="Path to the CLIP decoder onnx model. Only required when task is 'caption'.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--batch-size",
+    type=int,
+    default=1,
+    help="The batch size to run predictions",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--engine-type",
+    default=ORT_ENGINE,
+    type=click.Choice([DEEPSPARSE_ENGINE, ORT_ENGINE]),
+    show_default=True,
+    help="engine type to use, valid choices: ['deepsparse', 'onnxruntime']",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--num-cores",
+    type=int,
+    default=None,
+    show_default=True,
+    help="Number of CPU cores to run deepsparse with, default is all available",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--images-file",
+    type=str,
+    default="sample_images.txt",
+    show_default=True,
+    help="Text file containing paths to images for zeroshot classification.",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--classes-file",
+    type=str,
+    default="sample_classes.txt",
+    show_default=True,
+    required=False,
+    help="Text file containing a list of classes for zeroshot classification. "
+    " Only required when task is 'zeroshot'",
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--task",
+    default="zeroshot",
+    type=click.Choice(["zeroshot", "caption"]),
+    show_default=True,
+    help="CLIP task, options are: ['zeroshot', 'caption']",
+)
+def main(
+    visual_model: Union[str, Path],
+    text_model: Union[str, Path],
+    decoder_model: Union[str, Path],
+    batch_size: int,
+    num_cores: int,
+    engine_type: str,
+    images_file: Union[str, Path],
+    classes_file: Union[str, Path],
+    task: str,
+):
+    engine_args = {
+        "batch_size": batch_size,
+        "num_cores": num_cores,
+        "engine_type": engine_type,
+    }
+
+    with open(images_file) as f:
+        images = f.readlines()
+    images = [x.strip() for x in images]
+
+    if task == "caption":
+        if not decoder_model:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "For the captioning task, a decoder model must be provided"
+            )
+        if classes_file:
+            warnings.warn(f"{classes_file} was provided but is not used for captioning")
+
+        pipeline = BasePipeline.create(
+            task="clip_caption",
+            visual_model_path=visual_model,
+            text_model_path=text_model,
+            decoder_model_path=decoder_model,
+            pipeline_engine_args=engine_args,
+        )
+
+        pipeline_input = CLIPCaptionInput(image=CLIPVisualInput(images=images))
+
+        output = pipeline(pipeline_input).caption
+        for i in range(len(images)):
+            print(f"Class prediction for {images[i]}, {output[i]}")
+
+    if task == "zeroshot":
+        if not classes_file:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "For zeroshot classification a list of classes is required. Please use "
+                " the 'classes-file' argument."
+            )
+        if decoder_model:
+            warnings.warn(
+                f"{decoder_model} was provided but it is not used for zeroshot "
+                " classification"
+            )
+
+        pipeline = BasePipeline.create(
+            task="clip_zeroshot",
+            visual_model_path=visual_model,
+            text_model_path=text_model,
+            pipeline_engine_args=engine_args,
+        )
+
+        with open(classes_file) as f:
+            classes = f.readlines()
+
+        classes = [x.strip() for x in classes]
+
+        pipeline_input = CLIPZeroShotInput(
+            image=CLIPVisualInput(images=images), text=CLIPTextInput(text=classes)
+        )
+
+        output = pipeline(pipeline_input).text_scores
+        for i in range(len(images)):
+            print(f"Class prediction for {images[i]}, {classes[np.argmax(output[i])]}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()