Overview
Description
Moondream is a tiny but powerful vision language model that runs anywhere — from cloud servers to edge devices. It lets you add image understanding (captioning, visual Q&A, object detection) to your applications without massive infrastructure. The big picture: a 2B parameter model that punches above its weight, plus a 0.5B variant for resource-constrained hardware.
Technical scorecard
License
Apache-2.0
Commercial use
Yes
OpenAI-compatible API
No
REST API
No
Fine-tuning support
No
Quantization support
No
Docker available
No
GUI / no-code available
No
Telemetry
Unknown
Offline after setup
No
Data & Privacy
Does it send data online?
This listing is not marked offline after setup.
Does it store history?
Not verified in this directory yet. Review the upstream docs for persistence, logs, and workspace storage.
License checks?
Commercial use is marked as allowed or likely allowed by the listed license.
Telemetry?
Unknown
Last verified: Jul 22, 2026. Maintainer verification should be treated as directory guidance, not legal advice.
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A developer can usually get this running with standard docs.
# Start with the official project repository
# https://github.com/m87-labs/moondreamHardware Requirements
Works Well With