MoondreamReleased Jan 2024Apache 2.0

Moondream 2

We don't benchmark Moondream 2.

It is an open-weight model from Moondream under the Apache 2.0 license, and free for commercial use.

Moondream 2 Overview

Moondream 2 is a small open-source vision-language model from Moondream, the company founded by Vikhyat Korrapati. It was first released in early 2024 and updated through mid-2025. At approximately 1.9 billion parameters, it is designed to run efficiently on consumer hardware such as laptops and edge devices while supporting a practical range of multimodal tasks. Moondream 2 combines a vision encoder based on SigLIP with a compact language backbone, trained for image understanding tasks rather than as a general chat model.

Moondream 2 License

Apache-2.0 · Permissive license

Moondream 2 is released under the Apache 2.0 license, so it's commercially usable out of the box: you can ship it in closed-source, commercial products, including self-hosted deployments, without paying a license fee or open-sourcing your code. The Moondream 2 license is permissive, so no separate commercial license is required.

Commercial use: Permitted. Because Apache-2.0 is permissive, Moondream 2 can ship inside paid products and internal systems with no commercial license and no revenue threshold.
Modification: Permitted. Fine-tuning, quantizing, and distilling are all allowed, and your code changes can stay closed. Files you change must be marked as changed.
Redistribution: Permitted with attribution. Ship the Apache-2.0 license text and any NOTICE file alongside the weights or derived code.

Apache-2.0 grants an express patent license that terminates if you bring a patent claim over the work, and it disclaims warranties. Validate Moondream 2 on your own data before you depend on it in production.

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Do I need a commercial license for Moondream 2?

This is the straightforward case: a permissive license is the best technical solution and you are free to deploy Moondream 2 commercially without open-sourcing your own code.

Do not hesitate to reach out with questions for your commercial project. Our team will help you start solving business problems on the first call. See Roboflow commercial licensing for the models included in each plan.

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This model is released under the Apache License 2.0, a permissive open-source license that allows commercial use, modification, distribution, and patent use.

Yes. Under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, you can freely use this model for commercial purposes, including in proprietary products. You must retain the copyright notice and disclaimers when redistributing.

License information is provided as a guide and is not legal advice.