LLM Reference

MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking

Released
2026-04-13
Last refreshed
2026-06-04
Status
Researched today
MultimodalVisionOpen SourceMultimodal

MOSS-Audio 8B Thinking is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2026-04-13
Parameters
8.6B
Architecture
audio-language-transformer
Specialization
audio-understanding
License
Apache 2.0
Training
pretrained
Created by

OpenMOSS audio and video foundation-model research.

Shanghai, China
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
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Input / 1M
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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

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.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Hugging Face Inference Endpoints--
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Capabilities

MultimodalReasoningAudio

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

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