Powerful visual AI.Tiny footprint.
Moondream is an open-source visual language model that understands images using simple text prompts. It's fast and wildly capable.
One Model, Many Capabilities
Moondream supports a growing set of visual capabilities — all accessible through natural-language prompts.
Image Captioning
Image Captioning
The image shows a man in a blue jumpsuit and yellow hard hat standing in a large industrial setting. He is wearing safety glasses and ear protection, and is holding a clipboard and a pen, appearing to be taking notes...

Visual Question Answering
Visual Question Answering
Yes, there is an unsecured truck parked in the area. The truck is filled with boxes, and it appears to be a delivery truck. The presence of the unsecured truck and the boxes suggests that it might be a delivery service or a delivery truck parked in a public area.

Object Detection
Object Detection
(x=0.431, y=0.713, x2=0.569, y2=0.921)

Pointing (x, y)
Pointing (x, y)
(x=0.431, y=0.505)

Gaze Detection
Gaze Detection
The operator is looking at the bottom-right section of the control panel, near the red warning light.

OCR & Document Understanding
OCR & Document Understanding
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Get Running in Minutes.
Moondream is open source and you can install and run it anywhere, for free. You can have it running on your computer or in our cloud in a matter of minutes.
- Moondream Station is free
- Works with our Python and Node clients
- Works offline, fully under your control
- CPU or GPU compatible
- No downloads required
- Free tier: 5,000 requests per day
- Works with same Python or Node clients
- Scales to production
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Used in real-world applications across retail, logistics, healthcare, defense,and more.