# Moondream

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/moondream/  
**Website:** https://moondream.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Moondream is a fast, efficient open vision language model (VLM) from M87 Labs. The Moondream Cloud API turns images into structured output through five Skills — Query (visual question answering), Caption, Detect (bounding boxes), Point (center coordinates), and Segment (SVG path masks) — plus an OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint, an asynchronous Batch API, and cloud finetuning (Lens). Model weights are open and downloadable from Hugging Face; hosted inference is pay-per-token with HIPAA and SOC 2 available. Official Python and Node.js SDKs are published.

## Kin Score — 52.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 62.7 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |

## Agent readiness — 34.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Moondream OpenAI Compatibility API** — OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint.
- **Moondream Skills API** — Moondream vision Skills — query, caption, detect, point, segment.

## MCP servers (1)

- **moondream-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Moondream Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 6 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Moondream Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Moondream Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Vision Language Model, Object Detection, Image Captioning, OCR, Developer Tools

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/moondream/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.