diff --git a/docs/my-website/docs/providers/vertex.md b/docs/my-website/docs/providers/vertex.md
index d959498ce76..fa18525ee19 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/docs/providers/vertex.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/docs/providers/vertex.md
@@ -152,8 +152,14 @@ LiteLLM Supports the following image types passed in `url`
 - Images with Cloud Storage URIs - gs://cloud-samples-data/generative-ai/image/boats.jpeg
 - Images with direct links - https://storage.googleapis.com/github-repo/img/gemini/intro/landmark3.jpg
 - Videos with Cloud Storage URIs - https://storage.googleapis.com/github-repo/img/gemini/multimodality_usecases_overview/pixel8.mp4
+- Base64 Encoded Local Images
+
+**Example Request - image url**
+
+<Tabs>
+
+<TabItem value="direct" label="Images with direct links">
 
-**Example Request**
 ```python
 import litellm
 
@@ -179,6 +185,43 @@ response = litellm.completion(
 )
 print(response)
 ```
+</TabItem>
+
+<TabItem value="base" label="Local Base64 Images">
+
+```python
+import litellm
+
+def encode_image(image_path):
+    import base64
+
+    with open(image_path, "rb") as image_file:
+        return base64.b64encode(image_file.read()).decode("utf-8")
+
+image_path = "cached_logo.jpg"
+# Getting the base64 string
+base64_image = encode_image(image_path)
+response = litellm.completion(
+    model="vertex_ai/gemini-pro-vision",
+    messages=[
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": [
+                {"type": "text", "text": "Whats in this image?"},
+                {
+                    "type": "image_url",
+                    "image_url": {
+                        "url": "data:image/jpeg;base64," + base64_image
+                    },
+                },
+            ],
+        }
+    ],
+)
+print(response)
+```
+</TabItem>
+</Tabs>
 
 
 ## Chat Models
diff --git a/docs/my-website/sidebars.js b/docs/my-website/sidebars.js
index d69abcbfbde..f1c69f53a62 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/sidebars.js
+++ b/docs/my-website/sidebars.js
@@ -122,8 +122,6 @@ const sidebars = {
         "providers/openai_compatible",
         "providers/azure", 
         "providers/azure_ai", 
-        "providers/huggingface", 
-        "providers/ollama", 
         "providers/vertex", 
         "providers/palm", 
         "providers/gemini", 
@@ -132,6 +130,8 @@ const sidebars = {
         "providers/aws_sagemaker",
         "providers/bedrock", 
         "providers/anyscale",
+        "providers/huggingface", 
+        "providers/ollama", 
         "providers/perplexity", 
         "providers/groq", 
         "providers/vllm", 
diff --git a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py
index 18c06d4d677..1cda0ccdba4 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py
@@ -225,6 +225,24 @@ def _gemini_vision_convert_messages(messages: list):
                 part_mime = "video/mp4"
                 google_clooud_part = Part.from_uri(img, mime_type=part_mime)
                 processed_images.append(google_clooud_part)
+            elif "base64" in img:
+                # Case 4: Images with base64 encoding
+                import base64, re
+
+                # base 64 is passed as data:image/jpeg;base64,<base-64-encoded-image>
+                image_metadata, img_without_base_64 = img.split(",")
+
+                # read mime_type from img_without_base_64=data:image/jpeg;base64
+                # Extract MIME type using regular expression
+                mime_type_match = re.match(r"data:(.*?);base64", image_metadata)
+
+                if mime_type_match:
+                    mime_type = mime_type_match.group(1)
+                else:
+                    mime_type = "image/jpeg"
+                decoded_img = base64.b64decode(img_without_base_64)
+                processed_image = Part.from_data(data=decoded_img, mime_type=mime_type)
+                processed_images.append(processed_image)
         return prompt, processed_images
     except Exception as e:
         raise e
diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_amazing_vertex_completion.py b/litellm/tests/test_amazing_vertex_completion.py
index f5df00c8d9b..35d66907c34 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_amazing_vertex_completion.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_amazing_vertex_completion.py
@@ -336,6 +336,52 @@ def test_gemini_pro_vision():
 # test_gemini_pro_vision()
 
 
+def encode_image(image_path):
+    import base64
+
+    with open(image_path, "rb") as image_file:
+        return base64.b64encode(image_file.read()).decode("utf-8")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(
+    reason="we already test gemini-pro-vision, this is just another way to pass images"
+)
+def test_gemini_pro_vision_base64():
+    try:
+        load_vertex_ai_credentials()
+        litellm.set_verbose = True
+        litellm.num_retries = 3
+        image_path = "cached_logo.jpg"
+        # Getting the base64 string
+        base64_image = encode_image(image_path)
+        resp = litellm.completion(
+            model="vertex_ai/gemini-pro-vision",
+            messages=[
+                {
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "content": [
+                        {"type": "text", "text": "Whats in this image?"},
+                        {
+                            "type": "image_url",
+                            "image_url": {
+                                "url": "data:image/jpeg;base64," + base64_image
+                            },
+                        },
+                    ],
+                }
+            ],
+        )
+        print(resp)
+
+        prompt_tokens = resp.usage.prompt_tokens
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        if "500 Internal error encountered.'" in str(e):
+            pass
+        else:
+            pytest.fail(f"An exception occurred - {str(e)}")
+
+
 def test_gemini_pro_function_calling():
     load_vertex_ai_credentials()
     tools = [