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Moondream 3 Preview

by Moondream

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, an

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Moondream 3 Preview

Added 16 Oct 2026

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Overview

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...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `moondream/moondream3-preview`.

  • openrouter · moondream/moondream3-preview Docs

OpenRouter id: moondream/moondream3-preview

Notes

Moondream 3 Preview is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Moondream 3 Preview is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
22M
Requests, last 7 days
35.7K
Tool calls, last 7 days
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Price per million tokens
$0.3 in · $2.5 out
05M10M15 Oct: 625K tokens, 1.1K requests16 Oct: 6.9M tokens, 8.7K requests17 Oct: 8.8M tokens, 23.5K requests18 Oct: 5.7M tokens, 2.6K requests15 Oct18 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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