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Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview

Moondream 3 Preview is a vision-language model from Moondream with 9B total parameters and 2B active (mixture-of-experts). It handles visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and visual reasoning over images, with...

Quality Score
67/100
price + capability + benchmarks
Input Price
$0.30
per 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-19
Output Price
$2.50
per 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-19
Context Window
32,000
tokens
Model ID
moondream/moondream3-preview
Vendor
moondream
Released
October 2026
Tokenizer
Other
Input Modalities
text, image
Output Modalities
text
Max Output
4,096 tokens
Tool Calling
not supported
Structured Output
not supported
Reasoning Mode
✓ supported
Vision
✓ accepts images
Audio
no
Moderated
no

What it costs in practice

Computed from the current $0.30/M input and $2.50/M output rates. Run your own numbers →

JobTokensCost
Summarize a 50-page report 30k in / 1.5k out $0.01
Classify 1,000 customer emails 500k in / 50k out $0.28
A month of a busy support chatbot 5M in / 2M out $6.50

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Quick answers

How much does Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview cost?
$0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens.
What is Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview's context window?
32,000 tokens, roughly 48 pages of text in a single request.
Does Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview support tool calling?
It supports a reasoning mode.
Can Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview process images?
Yes, it accepts image input.

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