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Introducing Moondream3 Caption: Intelligent Image Captioning Now Available on WaveSpeedAI

The ability to automatically understand and describe visual content has become essential for modern applications—from powering accessible experiences for visually impaired users to automating content management at scale. Today, WaveSpeedAI is excited to announce the availability of Moondream3 Caption, a high-performance vision-language model that generates accurate, context-aware image captions with remarkable efficiency.

Built on the groundbreaking Moondream 3 architecture, this model represents a significant leap forward in image understanding technology, offering frontier-level visual reasoning capabilities while maintaining the speed and affordability that developers need for production applications.

What is Moondream3 Caption?

Moondream3 Caption is a specialized image captioning API powered by the Moondream 3 vision-language model. Developed by M87 Labs and led by former AWS engineer Vikhyat Korrapati, Moondream 3 utilizes an innovative Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 9 billion total parameters but only 2 billion active parameters per inference. This efficient design delivers exceptional performance while keeping computational costs low.

The model features a SigLIP-based vision encoder with multi-crop channel concatenation, enabling token-efficient high-resolution image processing. Combined with a 32,000-token context window and a custom SuperBPE tokenizer, Moondream3 Caption can understand complex visual scenes with remarkable accuracy and generate human-like descriptions that capture the essential details of any image.

What sets Moondream 3 apart from its predecessors is the extensive use of reinforcement learning in post-training—an approach so effective that the post-training phase actually consumed more compute than the initial pre-training. This investment pays dividends in the form of more accurate, natural, and contextually appropriate captions.

Key Features

Moondream3 Caption on WaveSpeedAI offers several powerful capabilities designed to fit seamlessly into your workflows:

• Flexible Caption Length Options: Choose from short, normal, or long captions depending on your use case. Need a quick thumbnail description? Use short. Want detailed scene analysis for dataset annotation? Go with long.

• Accurate Visual Understanding: Trained on large-scale, diverse visual datasets, the model accurately detects and describes objects, actions, environments, and subtle contextual details within images.

• Human-Like Language Output: Generates smooth, grammatically correct sentences that read naturally and are ready for production use without additional editing.

• Fast and Efficient Processing: Optimized for low-latency inference, making it suitable for both real-time applications and high-volume batch processing.

• Broad Format Support: Works with JPEG, PNG, and WebP images up to 10 MB in size.

• Simple REST API: Easy integration with straightforward JSON requests and responses.

Real-World Use Cases

Moondream3 Caption opens up possibilities across numerous industries and applications:

Content Management and SEO

Automatically generate alt text and descriptions for large image libraries. This improves accessibility compliance and boosts SEO by providing search engines with rich, descriptive metadata for your visual content.

Social Media Automation

Create engaging captions for social media posts at scale. Marketing teams can process hundreds of product images or user-generated content, generating appropriate descriptions without manual effort.

E-commerce Product Descriptions

Enhance product listings with accurate, detailed descriptions generated directly from product photography. Reduce the time spent on manual cataloging while maintaining quality and consistency.

Dataset Annotation and Research

Researchers and ML practitioners can use Moondream3 Caption to annotate large visual datasets quickly and accurately, accelerating the development of computer vision models and enabling new research directions.

Accessibility Applications

Build applications that describe visual content for visually impaired users, making digital experiences more inclusive and compliant with accessibility standards.

Creative Storytelling and Media Production

Generate descriptive text for image sequences, storyboards, or photo essays. Content creators can use the model to draft narratives that complement their visual work.

Test Automation and Quality Assurance

Moondream’s ability to understand UI elements semantically makes it valuable for automated testing—verifying that interfaces display correctly or detecting visual regressions across software releases.

Getting Started with Moondream3 Caption on WaveSpeedAI

Using Moondream3 Caption through WaveSpeedAI is straightforward. Simply send a POST request with your image URL and desired caption length:

{
  "image": "https://example.com/your-image.jpg",
  "length": "normal"
}

The API returns a clean JSON response with your generated caption:

{
  "caption": "A young woman with long, dark hair stands in front of a bar. She wears a leopard print halter top and blue jeans, accessorized with large hoop earrings. The bar features a purple backlit counter and a lit sign displaying 'DAMON' in yellow letters."
}

Best Practices

• Use “short” for quick summaries, thumbnail text, or social media previews
• Use “normal” for balanced, descriptive captions (recommended for most applications)
• Use “long” for detailed storytelling, research annotations, or comprehensive dataset labeling

At just $0.005 per request, Moondream3 Caption delivers professional-grade image captioning at a fraction of the cost of larger proprietary models. And with WaveSpeedAI’s infrastructure, you get:

• Zero cold starts: Your requests begin processing immediately
• Consistent low latency: Fast inference times you can rely on
• Simple, transparent pricing: Pay only for what you use

Conclusion

Moondream3 Caption brings frontier-level image understanding to developers and businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re building accessibility features, automating content workflows, or annotating datasets for machine learning, this model delivers accurate, natural-language descriptions with the speed and affordability your applications demand.

The combination of Moondream 3’s efficient MoE architecture and WaveSpeedAI’s optimized inference platform means you no longer have to choose between quality and cost. Get the visual understanding capabilities of models many times larger, at a price point that makes sense for production deployments.

Ready to add intelligent image captioning to your application?

Try Moondream3 Caption on WaveSpeedAI today and experience the future of visual AI—fast, accurate, and affordable.