MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking
MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
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- Teams evaluating vision
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- MOSS-Audio
- Released
- 2026-04-13
- Parameters
- 8.6B
- Architecture
- Audio / Speech
- Specialization
- audio-understanding
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Hugging Face Inference Endpoints
About
MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking is the reasoning-tuned 8.6B variant of MOSI AI and OpenMOSS Team's open-weight audio understanding model. It uses the MOSS-Audio encoder and Qwen3-8B backbone, with Thinking post-training for complex audio reasoning over speech, environmental sound, music, timestamps, captions, and question answering.
MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking is an open-source model in the MOSS-Audio family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input, audio, and reasoning. This page tracks provider routes through Hugging Face Inference Endpoints. No headline benchmark score is tracked for MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face Inference Endpoints | - | - | Partial |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
When was MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking released?
MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking was released on 2026-04-13.
Which providers offer MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking?
MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking is available from 1 provider: Hugging Face Inference Endpoints.
Cheapest of 1 route · Hugging Face Inference Endpoints