Moondream3.1 9b A2b 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

• Moondream Model License 1.0 restricts hosted general-purpose inference and fine-tuning services without a separate license.

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-3-1-beyond-benchmarks
• huggingface.co/moondream/moondream3.1-9B-A2B
• moondream.ai/licenses/model/1.0
• moondream.ai/pricing

Computed straight from the list prices above — token counts are illustrative workload sizes, not measurements of Moondream3.1 9b A2b.

In AI IQ's scoring, Moondream3.1 9b A2b's list price is adjusted by a token-usage multiplier of 0.891, giving an effective cost of $1.16 per 1M input + output tokens. That places it #39 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 Moondream3.1 9b A2b, or better.