Moondream3 API Pricing

These are the tracked rates, not a live quote. Hosted-provider choice, region, long-context tiers, caching, batch discounts, and temporary promotions can change the actual bill. Open-weight availability does not mean hosted inference is free. Workload examples assume the listed standard input and output rates, with no cache hits or discounts.

Publisher-reported pricing notes

• The license restricts competing paid hosted or embedded services without a separate agreement.

Official release and model references

These references document the model and its release; not every reference is a pricing table. Confirm the applicable endpoint and billing tier with your inference provider before purchase.

• moondream.ai/blog/moondream-3-preview
• huggingface.co/moondream/moondream3-preview
• huggingface.co/moondream/moondream3-preview/blob/main/LICENSE.md
• moondream.ai/pricing

Computed straight from the list prices above — token counts are illustrative workload sizes, not measurements of Moondream3.

In AI IQ's scoring, Moondream3's list price is adjusted by a token-usage multiplier of 0.929, giving an effective cost of $2.60 per 1M input + output tokens. That places it #67 of 153 models on the effective-cost ranking (lower is cheaper). Some models spend far more tokens than others on the same task, so effective cost compares what a unit of work really costs. Method details are on the methodology page; see all models on the cost charts and the falling cost of intelligence over time.

Models with a lower effective cost that score within a few IQ points of Moondream3, or better.