Photon

Photon

Moondream
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About

​Moondream is an open source vision language model designed for efficient image understanding across various devices, including servers, PCs, mobile phones, and edge devices. It offers two primary variants, Moondream 2B, a 1.9-billion-parameter model providing robust performance for general-purpose tasks, and Moondream 0.5B, a compact 500-million-parameter model optimized for resource-constrained hardware. Both models support quantization formats like fp16, int8, and int4, allowing for reduced memory usage without significant performance loss. Moondream's capabilities include generating detailed image captions, answering visual queries, performing object detection, and pinpointing specific items within images. Its design emphasizes versatility and accessibility, enabling deployment across a wide range of platforms. ​

About

Photon is Moondream’s official high-performance inference engine, designed to run vision-language models efficiently across cloud, desktop, and edge environments while delivering real-time performance for production AI systems. It is built as a custom inference layer tightly integrated with the Moondream model architecture, using optimized scheduling, native image processing, and purpose-built CUDA kernels to maximize speed and efficiency. This co-designed approach allows Photon to significantly reduce latency compared to traditional VLM setups, enabling responsive interactions on edge devices and real-time throughput on server-grade hardware. It supports deployment across a wide range of NVIDIA GPUs, from embedded systems like Jetson devices to high-end multi-GPU servers, making it adaptable for diverse operational needs. It includes production-ready features such as automatic batching, prefix caching, and memory-efficient attention mechanisms.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers and researchers in search of a solution for integrating advanced image understanding into applications across diverse devices

Audience

AI engineers and computer vision teams who need to deploy real-time, high-performance vision-language models across cloud, edge, and on-prem environments

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

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Pricing

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$300 per month
Free Version
Free Trial

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Training

Documentation
Webinars
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Training

Documentation
Webinars
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Company Information

Moondream
Founded: 2024
United States
moondream.ai/

Company Information

Moondream
Founded: 2024
United States
moondream.ai/p/photon

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Integrations

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NVIDIA Jetson
Photon

Integrations

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NVIDIA Jetson
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