Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview

moondream/moondream3-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...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.3 / $2.5 per 1M

Context

32K

Released

Oct 15, 2026

Why use Moondream 3 Preview

Understands images
Step-by-step reasoning mode

Pricing

Input	$0.3 / 1M tokens
Output	$2.5 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview	$0.0052	$5.24	$5.24

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

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Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

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