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VisionM87 Labs

Moondream

Tiny open vision-language model for efficient image understanding.

Category
Vision
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
WebAPI
Models
Self-contained (on-device)
Verified
Jun 7, 2026

An open-weights family of small vision-language models for captioning, visual Q&A, pointing, counting, and object detection — small enough to run on-device (checkpoints down to 0.5B on Hugging Face). Run it locally with the Photon engine, or call Moondream Cloud's OpenAI-compatible API with a free monthly credit tier and pay-per-image pricing.

Capabilities 5

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Model inference / serving (secondary capability)
  • Fine-tuning / training (secondary capability)
  • OCR / scanned-document extraction (secondary capability)
  • Object detection (primary capability)
  • Image classification (primary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Open-weights, free to self-host
  • Runs on-device with Photon engine
  • Does pointing, counting, detection
  • OpenAI-compatible cloud API option
  • Small models trail frontier VLMs on hard tasks
  • Narrower than large multimodal LLMs
  • Cloud tier is pay-per-image

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