What's free
$5/month usage credits in every workspace (Free plan) for the Moondream vision model — caption, query (VQA), detect, point
- Credit card
- not required
- Phone verification
- not confirmed
- Commercial use
- not confirmed
Free limits
Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.
In the provider's words
2 requests/sec on the free tier (10 req/sec with ≥$10 account balance); usage bounded by the $5/month credit
The catch
Recurring $5/month credit, no credit card required. Per the Terms (§5.2), data is not used to train Moondream's generally available models. Commercial terms for the hosted API not specified. OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Free models: not listed yet.
Quickstart — chat completions
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.moondream.ai/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="<a-free-model>",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)…or with curl:
curl https://api.moondream.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"<a-free-model>","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'Appears in
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Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-10-08 Updated rate limits, the catch
- 2026-08-14 Updated the catch, card requirement
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub