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Moondream

Open vision-language models for local perception and physical AI.

Releases
23
Modalities
Image + text → text
Introduced
Photon 1.0
Quickstart · pip install moondream
Call Moondream in a few lines.
python
# pip install moondream
import moondream as md
from PIL import Image

# Moondream 3 on Photon — local GPU inference
model = md.photon("moondream3-preview")

image = Image.open("photo.jpg")

# Caption the image
caption = model.caption(image)["caption"]
print("Caption:", caption)

# Ask a question
answer = model.query(image, "What's happening in this image?")["answer"]
print("Answer:", answer)

# Moondream 3 also detects, points, and segments
objects = model.detect(image, "person")["objects"]
for obj in objects:
    print("Person:", obj)

Full API reference — docs.moondream.ai/running-locally

ModelChipTested hardwareSinceLast verifiedBenchmark
Moondream 2A10A10 24GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 2A40A40 48GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 2A100A100 80GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 2GH200GH200 96GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 2H100H100 SXM 80GBv1.0Aug 3, 2026Results
Moondream 2H200H200 SXM 141GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 2Jetson AGX OrinJetson AGX Orin 64GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 2Jetson Orin NanoJetson Orin Nano 8GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 2Jetson Orin NXJetson Orin NX 16GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 2L4L4 24GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 2L40SL40S 48GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 2RTX 30 seriesRTX 3090 24GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 2RTX 4090RTX 4090 24GBv1.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 3A10A10 24GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 3A40A40 48GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 3A100A100 80GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 3GH200GH200 96GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 3H100H100 SXM 80GBv2.0Aug 3, 2026Results
Moondream 3H200H200 SXM 141GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 3Jetson AGX OrinJetson AGX Orin 64GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 3L4L4 24GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 3L40SL40S 48GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026Results
Moondream 3RTX 30 seriesRTX 3090 24GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026
Moondream 3RTX 4090RTX 4090 24GBv2.0Aug 4, 2026
Run Moondream with Photon

Install the SDK and pick any listed model.

$pip install moondream

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