Moondream
State-of-the-art vision for your task. Build, fine-tune, and deploy visual AI that works on your real-world edge cases.
What is Moondream?
Moondream is a fast and powerful vision model offering state-of-the-art performance for detection, captioning, and segmentation. It provides open models with commercial-friendly licenses, a fine-tuning platform called Lens, and an inference engine called Photon for efficient deployment. Moondream Cloud offers hosted inference with an OpenAI-compatible API. The platform is designed to be flexible, running on various hardware from edge devices to data centers.
What can Moondream do?
Detection
Detect objects in images with bounding box coordinates.
Captioning
Generate captions for images.
Fine-tuning
Fine-tune models with Lens API, requiring as few as 20 images.
Fast inference
Photon engine answers queries in under 60 ms on H100.
Flexible deployment
Run on edge, workstation, or server hardware.
Open weights
Open models with commercial use allowed.
Who is Moondream for?
- Manufacturing and logistics
- Detecting misoriented boxes in a warehouse
Moondream has a free plan, with paid upgrades for more usage or features.
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