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Moondream 3 Preview

by Moondream · 9B (2B active) parameters

Current open weights open weights cheap tier
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Availability: Sold by Moondream on Moondream Cloud (every workspace includes $5 a month of usage credits), and through OpenRouter, where PrimeIntellect is the only provider. The weights are on Hugging Face under the Business Source License 1.1, which allows most commercial use but not offering the model as a hosted service without a separate licence.

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.300

per 1M tokens

Output

$2.50

per 1M tokens

Blended

$0.850

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

How this price is scoped: Moondream's own pricing page lists Moondream 3 Preview at $0.30 / 1M input tokens and $2.50 / 1M output tokens real-time, and half that in batch ($0.15 / $1.25). We publish the real-time rate. Its successor, Moondream 3.1, costs less per output token ($1.00 / 1M).

Source: official Moondream pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-10-17

Price receipt

We read Moondream's own pricing page on and found MOONDREAM 3 PREVIEW — REAL-TIME listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 7acf40ef9a.

Overview

The preview release of Moondream 3, a mixture-of-experts vision language model with 9B total and 2B active parameters that raised Moondream's context window from 2K to 32K tokens. It answers questions about images, captions, points at and detects objects. $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens on Moondream Cloud.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/4
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video
Output
Text ✓
Features 2/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights ✓ Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Specifications

Provider
Moondream
Context window
32K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
9B (2B active)
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
open-weightsmultimodalmoe

Availability verified: — listed on Moondream's own page

Official pricing page