Moondream 3 Preview

Moondream 3 Preview is the original 9B mixture-of-experts vision-language checkpoint with 2B active parameters, for visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and visual reasoning. It accepts text or one image with optional reasoning, a 32,000-token context, and up to 4,096 output tokens.

  • Reasoning
  • Vision

Added Oct 16, 2026

Model weights

Pricing

Auto routing · per 1M tokens
Input
$0.30
Output
$2.50
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Specifications

Context window
32K
Max output
4.1K
Parameters
9B / 2B
Total / active

Image examples

Download an image and attach it in chat with the sample prompt. Each example uses one image.

Caption a scene

A team of sled dogs wearing harnesses and running through snow.

Sample prompt

Describe what is happening in this image. Include the animals, their equipment, and the setting.

Read and compare a table

A table of metals, reduction reactions, and electrode potentials in volts.

Sample prompt

Read the electrode-potential table. List the metals with positive potentials and their values, from highest to lowest. Preserve the signs and units.

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