# Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview

- Model id: `moondream/moondream3-preview`
- Served by: -
- List price per 1M tokens, input / output, from: -, with 0% platform fee. A request is billed at the list price of the host that served it.
- Context: 32K, max output 4K
- Prices read 2026-11-15 09:33 UTC
- Page: https://plaingateway.com/models/moondream/moondream3-preview

Moondream 3 Preview is a vision-language model from Moondream with 9B total parameters and 2B active (mixture-of-experts). It handles visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and visual reasoning over images, with...

## Hosts

| Host | Endpoint | In / out /M | Cache read /M | Context | Served |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primeintellect | `primeintellect/fp8` | $0.30 / $2.50 | - | 32K | no |

## First request

```sh
curl https://api.plaingateway.com/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PLAINGATEWAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "moondream/moondream3-preview", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello in five words."}]}'
```

Sign up at https://plaingateway.com/signup (no card), create a key, send a test call, and add credits when you want more. New accounts may get a small starting credit. The whole bootstrap for agents: https://plaingateway.com/llms.txt