Independent product intelligence · Worldwide · 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31

Moondreammoondream.ai

Moondream is a lightweight, open-source visual language model designed for understanding images through text prompts. It's known for its small size (1GB), speed, and versatility in tasks like captioning, object detection, and OCR.

Developer & AI Platformmoondream.aiTracked since 2026-08-211 discovery source
2.2KBacklinks
580Referring domains
24Domain authority
+16.7%Referring domains · 90 days

Authority & distribution

How strong is Moondream’s web footprint?

Backlinks measure accumulated distribution; referring domains show how broadly that authority is spread. Both are observable on the open web, so both are published for every product here.

Backlinks

2.2KCurrent snapshot

Referring domains

580Current snapshot

Authority

24Domain authority · category median 22

90-day move

+16.7%Referring domains, last 90 days
At 24, Moondream sits above the 22 median for its category.

Trajectory · Pro

The counts above are the latest of 370 daily observations. The curve through them is on the full profile.

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Traffic & engagement

Where Moondream ranks

Measured · Pro

Measured for this product: global rank, country rank and category rank.

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AI referral visibility

Which AI assistants are already sending Moondream traffic?

Measured · Pro

Measured for this product: AI referral traffic, which assistants refer it and which pages those referrals land on.

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Product profile

What Moondream is selling.

Traffic makes more sense when you can connect it to the actual product promise.

“Moondream”

Moondream is a lightweight, open-source visual language model designed for understanding images through text prompts. It's known for its small size (1GB), speed, and versatility in tasks like captioning, object detection, and OCR.

Developer & AI PlatformSeen 2026-08-21 → 2026-08-21Coverage tier C

What we have measured

4 of 8 signal groups are available for this product: identity, authority and backlinks, AI referrals, search demand.

Not measured for this domain: traffic and engagement, audience demographics, country distribution, acquisition mix. Those sections are left out of the page rather than filled with estimates.

Canonical website: https://moondream.ai

Observed across 1 discovery source.

Research questions

What the evidence answers about Moondream.

Every answer is tied to a source we collected, and the questions with no evidence behind them are left unanswered rather than guessed.

What does Moondream do?

Moondream is a lightweight, open-source visual language model designed for understanding images through text prompts. It's a small, fast model that can be used for tasks like image captioning, object detection, and OCR.

What features or tools does Moondream offer?

Moondream offers a range of models for different needs, including Moondream 3.1 (9B MoE) for advanced reasoning, Moondream 2 (2B dense) as a production model, and a tiny 0.5B model for constrained hardware. It also provides a playground, documentation, and the Lens fine-tuning platform with a simple API.

How is Moondream priced or packaged?

The open models are commercially friendly and can be run anywhere. The platform offers a playground with no credit card required and $5 in credits added monthly.

What is Moondream used for and in what situations?

Moondream is used for visual AI tasks such as captioning, detection, segmentation, and OCR on images. It's suited for edge cases and real-world applications where its small size (1GB) and speed are beneficial.

Who is Moondream for?

Moondream is for developers and teams building computer vision applications, as it provides vision AI models, APIs, and fine-tuning platforms for building on real-world edge cases.

What is Moondream?

Moondream is a lightweight, open-source visual language model and AI platform for understanding images through text prompts, focused on speed, small size, and versatility for tasks like captioning, object detection, and OCR.

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  • Backlink trajectoryThe figures above are the latest observation. The daily curve behind them holds 370.
  • AI referral detailHow much traffic assistants send, which one of them does it, and the page they land on.
  • Search structure and ranking depthOrganic against paid, brand against non-brand, and how many keywords rank in the top three against the long tail — which is what decides whether the demand is portable or tied to the name.
  • The rest of the marketPage through every leaderboard 100 rows at a time, put any five products side by side, and query the whole dataset over API / MCP.

Worldwide estimates · Data period 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31. Figures are measured estimates intended for market research. Signals we have not measured for this domain are omitted, never estimated; a measured zero is still reported as zero. How this was measured