Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview pricing
Moondream 3 Preview is a vision-language model from Moondream with 9B total parameters and 2B active (mixture-of-experts). Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview from OpenRouter costs $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens. Context window 32,000 tokens.
API id moondream/moondream3-preview · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-11-10 · general-purpose
$0.300
Input / 1M tokens
$2.50
Output / 1M tokens
—
Cached input / 1M
32K
Context window
Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview specifications
- Provider
- OpenRouter
- API id
moondream/moondream3-preview- Model type
- general-purpose
- Context window
- 32K tokens
- Max output
- 4K tokens
- Currency
- USD
- Price source
- Provider API
- Last checked
- 2026-11-10
Tags
- preview
- vision
What Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | $0.0015 |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | $0.02 |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | $0.80 |
Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.
Common questions
- How much does Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview cost per 1M tokens?
- Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview costs $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
- What is Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview's context window?
- Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview accepts up to 32,000 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 4,096 output tokens.
- Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview?
- Yes. Free Models Router is free per 1M input tokens versus $0.300 for Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview, with a 200,000 token context window.
- Where does this Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview price come from?
- From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.
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