Moondream 2
by Vikhyat Korrapati · open-source · Last verified 2026-03-17
Ultra-compact vision-language model designed for edge deployment and resource-constrained environments. Delivers surprisingly strong visual understanding in under 2B parameters, enabling on-device multimodal inference.
https://huggingface.co/vikhyatk/moondream2 ↗D
D—Poor
Adoption: DQuality: C+Freshness: C+Citations: DEngagement: F
Specifications
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Pricing
- open-source
- Capabilities
- image-understanding, visual-qa, image-captioning, edge-inference, ocr
- Integrations
- huggingface, ollama, transformers
- Use Cases
- edge-ai, mobile-vision, embedded-systems, lightweight-image-qa
- API Available
- No
- Parameters
- 1.8B
- Context Window
- 2K tokens
- Modalities
- text, image
- Training Cutoff
- Early 2024
- Tags
- multimodal, vision, open-source, tiny, edge-deployment
- Added
- 2026-03-17
- Completeness
- 85%
Index Score
35.55Adoption
38
Quality
58
Freshness
52
Citations
35
Engagement
0