# Moondream

> Moondream, a family of models by Moondream, listed from OpenRouter. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Moondream 3 Preview is a vision-language model from Moondream with 9B total parameters and 2B active (mixture-of-experts). It handles visual…

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- Updated: 2026-10-16

# Moondream

> Indexed, not reviewed: facts from OpenRouter and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/

- Kind: model family, by Moondream
- Category: Model APIs & inference (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/inference.md)
- Listed because: OpenRouter lists it, with prices from the providers that serve it.
- What OpenRouter says: 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...

## Models (2)

| Model | OpenRouter id | Released | Context | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Supports |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Moondream 3 Preview | `moondream/moondream3-preview` | 2026-10 | 32k | $0.30 | $2.50 | reasoning, image |
| Moondream 3.1 | `moondream/moondream3.1-9b-a2b` | 2026-10 | 32k | $0.30 | $2.50 | reasoning, image |

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