Licenses

Permissive — commercial use, modification, and distribution allowed, with attribution and a patent grant.

Very permissive — do almost anything as long as the copyright notice is kept.

Open weights under Google's Gemma Terms of Use and a prohibited-use policy.

Open weights. Commercial use is allowed below 1M monthly active users; above that, request a licence from Tencent. Does not apply in the EU, UK or South Korea, and distribution is limited to the licensed territory. Acceptable-use policy applies.

Open weights with conditions; free unless you exceed ~700M monthly active users, plus an acceptable-use policy.

Free for research, non-commercial and limited commercial use. The commercial grant ends above USD 1M in annual revenue or total funding; past that, a separate licence from Stellon Labs is needed. Distributing the weights or a product built on them requires attribution.

DeepSeek's own model licence: commercial use is permitted, subject to use-based restrictions listed in the licence.

MNPL-0.1: research, testing and personal use only. Not for production or any commercial activity.

Open weights with conditions: a separate licence is needed above ~700M monthly active users, plus Meta's acceptable-use policy.

MIT, plus one condition: very large commercial products must credit the model in their UI.

Weights are free for research and personal use only — NOT for commercial use (use FLUX.1 [schnell] for that).

Free for research and for commercial use by smaller organizations; larger organizations need a paid license.

Open and royalty-free with responsible-AI use restrictions.

Open weights with conditions; free unless you exceed ~700M monthly active users, plus an acceptable-use policy.

Open weights with conditions; free unless you exceed ~700M monthly active users, plus an acceptable-use policy.

NVIDIA's own licence: commercial use is generally permitted under its terms, which include attribution and a condition about not bypassing the model's built-in guardrails. Read it before shipping a product.

Liquid AI's Apache-2.0-based licence with a revenue threshold: free for research and for commercial use below about USD 10M a year in revenue; above that you need a separate commercial licence.

Meta Llama 3 Community License: open weights with conditions; free unless you exceed ~700M monthly active users, plus an acceptable-use policy.

Open and royalty-free with use-based (responsible-AI) restrictions.