Moondream 3 Preview is the original 9B mixture-of-experts vision-language checkpoint with 2B active parameters, for visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and visual reasoning. It accepts text or one image with optional reasoning, a 32,000-token context, and up to 4,096 output tokens.
Moondream 3 Preview is offered by 3 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens.
The context window is 32,000 tokens, with an output limit of 4,096 tokens. It supports reasoning. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | — | — | 32,000 | 4,096 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | — | — | 32,000 | 4,096 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | — | — | 32,000 | 4,096 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
1 / 3 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-10-16). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.