Moondream 2
Free.ai (self-hosted)
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vision
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~500 tokens per image
Moondream 2 is a vision model built by M87 Labs. Strongest at Low-VRAM image captioning, fast OCR fallback, edge VLM deployments.. Self-hosted on Free.ai GPUs — runs free against your daily token pool (500 tokens per image). Released under Apache 2.0 — commercial use permitted on Free.ai.
Use via API
OpenAI-compatible REST API. Generate a key and call this model in seconds.
curl -X POST https://api.free.ai/v1/image/describe/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-free-..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"moondream2","prompt":"your prompt here"}'Frequently Asked Questions
Moondream 2 is a vision model built by M87 Labs. Strongest at Low-VRAM image captioning, fast OCR fallback, edge VLM deployments.. Self-hosted on Free.ai GPUs — runs free against your daily token pool (500 tokens per image). Released under Apache 2.0 — commercial use permitted on
Moondream 2 works well for Low-VRAM image captioning, fast OCR fallback, edge VLM deployments.. Try the sample prompts above to see its style.
About 500 tokens per average message. $1 buys 750,000 tokens, so even paid models cost cents per chat. Free accounts get a 30,000-token daily pool.
It depends on the task. /chat/compare/ lets you send the same prompt to Moondream 2 and any other model side-by-side — comparison is the fastest way to decide.
Yes. Outputs are yours — Free.ai does not claim rights to anything you generate. The underlying model is Apache 2.0-licensed.
32,768 tokens.
Replies stream token-by-token within ~1 second. Total response time depends on length and model size — small models stream faster, frontier models trade speed for depth.
Yes. Signed-in users see every chat in /account/?tab=history. You can also share a one-link copy of any conversation via the Share button.
Free.ai does not train models on your conversations. Self-hosted models stay on our GPUs. Premium models route to the upstream provider for inference.
Yes. POST to /v1/chat/ with model="moondream2" and a messages array. Streaming SSE is supported. Full reference: /api/.
Moondream 2 is Apache 2.0-licensed with 2B parameters. See /models/moondream2/ for setup notes and our open-source repos at github.com/freeaigit.
Free accounts get a 30,000-token daily pool. When that runs out, top up starting at $1 (750K tokens) — no subscription required.