Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct

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API ID: moonshotai/moonlight-16b-a3b-instruct

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Input Price
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/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct

Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct is a 16B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI. It is optimized for instruction-following tasks with 3B activated parameters per inference. The model advances the Pareto frontier in performance per FLOP across English, coding, math, and Chinese benchmarks. It outperforms comparable models like Llama3-3B and Deepseek-v2-Lite while maintaining efficient deployment capabilities through Hugging Face integration and compatibility with popular inference engines like vLLM12.

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Model Specifications

Context Length
8k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2025-02-28
Capabilities
chat
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
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OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/moonlight-16b-a3b-instruct",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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