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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- Family
- MOSS-Audio
- Released
- 2026-04-13
- Parameters
- 8.6B
- Architecture
- audio-language-transformer
- Specialization
- audio-understanding
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Training
- pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Hugging Face Inference Endpoints
About
MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking is the reasoning-tuned 8.6B variant of MOSI Intelligence 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 a 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
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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
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