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Moondream has one model in the ModelRunner catalog: Moondream 3 Preview (Query), an Image-to-Text endpoint, priced at $0.4 in · $3.5 out per 1M tokens — ask questions about an image and get text answers.

1 public model — runnable in a free playground, through the REST API and JavaScript SDK, or from an AI assistant over MCP.

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Moondream 3 Preview (Query)

Moondream 3 Preview (Query)

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Ask a natural-language question about an image and get a text answer, with frontier-level visual reasoning, OCR, and object understanding.

$0.4 in · $3.5 out per 1M tokensimagetextcaption

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Use Moondream models from Claude & Cursor

Connect the ModelRunner MCP server once and your AI assistant can run every Moondream model on this page as a tool — authorized via OAuth, results returned as hosted URLs in the conversation.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http modelrunner https://mcp.modelrunner.run/mcp

Frequently asked questions

What Moondream models can I run on ModelRunner?

The catalog has 1 public Moondream model: Moondream 3 Preview (Query). It covers image-to-text. It has its own page with a free playground, the full input schema, and copy-paste code.

How much do Moondream models cost?

Pay-per-use, with no subscription: each Moondream page publishes its own rate, and you pay only for what you generate from prepaid credits.

How do I call a Moondream model from the API?

POST to https://queue.modelrunner.run/moondream/moondream3-preview/query with an Authorization: Key header and the input fields as the top-level JSON body (no wrapper object), then poll the returned status_url and fetch the result from response_url. The JavaScript SDK (@modelrunner/client) wraps that in a single subscribe() call, which is the one place an { input } object is used.

Can I run Moondream model from Claude or Cursor?

Yes. Connect the ModelRunner MCP server (https://mcp.modelrunner.run/mcp) once and Moondream's model becomes a tool your assistant can call with run_model — authorized over OAuth 2.1, so no API key goes into a config file. Results come back as hosted URLs in the conversation.

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Browse the full model catalog, compare live per-configuration rates on the pricing page, see curated sets on explore, or view every model creator.

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