Moondream 3 Preview
by MoondreamChat
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...
- Context
- 32K tokens
- Max output
- 4,096 tokens
- Parameters
- 9.3B total
- Released
- 2026-10-15
- Weights
- Open
moondream/moondream3-preview · also seen as fal-ai/moondream3-preview/query, moondream/moondream3-preview-20261013
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-10-15
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- Input
- Text, Image
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 32,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 4,096
- Providers
- 2 + 3 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.30–$0.40 in · $2.50–$3.50 out per 1M tokens · across all 2 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-10-16
- Knowledge cutoff
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · moondream/moondream3-preview
- Parameters
- 9.3B total
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.30 in / $2.50 out per 1M tokens at PrimeIntellect on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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