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Moondream 3.1 Pricing

Moondream · moondream-moondream3-1-9b-a2b

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Input / 1M tokens
$0.300
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50
Context window
32k tokens
≈ 43 pages of text
Max output
4,096 tokens

What it costs in practice

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Moondream 3.1 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

The staircase chart appears once a price change is detected.

What it excels at

Low-cost inference for basic image captioning, OCR, and simple visual QA; open weights enable local or edge deployment.

The business tradeoff

Small scale restricts performance on complex multi-step reasoning, high-resolution images, or domain-specific visual tasks.

Same tier from other providers

Head-to-head

Vendor list rates, as of Oct 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.