Moondream / moondream/moondream3-preview
Moondream 3 Preview - access through LLMTR
Moondream 3 Preview is the preview release of Moondream 3, a vision-language model with 9B parameters and 2B active per token, for visual question answering, captions, reading text in images (OCR) and visual reasoning. It takes text and image input and returns text, with a 32,000-token context window. Send images as base64 data URLs; https image URLs are not accepted. Reasoning is off by default; turn it on with reasoning: true or the :think suffix. Tool calling, response_format and stop sequences are not supported. The newer release of the family is Moondream 3.1.
Technical specifications
| Canonical ID | moondream/moondream3-preview |
|---|---|
| Provider | Moondream |
| Context window | 32,000 tokens |
| Operations | CHAT_COMPLETIONS |
| Modalities | text, image |
Pricing
An 8% platform margin applies to credit top-ups; model usage prices are not separately marked up.
| Operation | Metric | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAT_COMPLETIONS | INPUT_TEXT | PER_1M_TOKENS | $0.300000 |
| CHAT_COMPLETIONS | OUTPUT_TEXT | PER_1M_TOKENS | $2.50 |
Example usage
With existing OpenAI SDK flows, change only the base URL and model identifier.
curl https://llmtr.com/v1/chat/completions -H "Authorization: Bearer llmtr-your_key" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"moondream/moondream3-preview","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Guides about this model
- Moondream 3.1 or Moondream 3 Preview? Differences and price - On LLMTR both models are called through /v1/chat/completions with the same API key and the same request format. In the catalog the context (32,000 tokens), the price ($0.30 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens) and the capabilities are identical; the difference is the release. Moondream 3.1 is the family's newer release, and Moondream 3 Preview is the preview release of Moondream 3.
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