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Moondream 3.1 (9B-A2B)

Small open-weights vision-language model for captioning, visual Q&A, detection and pointing, with a hosted API.

  • Moondream (M87 Labs)
  • Open weights
  • Released Jun 2026

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Vendor
Moondream (M87 Labs)
Family
Moondream
Released
Jun 2026
Weights
Open: download and run it yourself
License
Moondream Model License 1.0
Parameters
9.3B (2B active)
GPU memory to run locally
~7 GB (9.27B total (HF safetensors), ~2B active per the name; 4-bit ≈ 9.3 × 0.57 + 1.5 ≈ 7 GB, estimate.)
Access
Free (open weights)
Last verified
19 Oct 2026

Price from moondream.ai, 19 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

No public benchmark results recorded yet.

Where you can use it

  • AMLX-VLMRuntimes & gateways · Local

Earlier versions

  • Moondream 3 Preview · Sep 2025
  • Moondream 2 · —

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