Roboflow gives users access to a range of computer vision models, some of which come with licensing considerations. This page explains these licensing details across the various Roboflow plans.
Roboflow provides all users with a commercial license to use all models which are hosted by Roboflow, either in our app (like Segment Anything in our Annotation tool or CLIP in our semantic image search) or in our hosted APIs. Payment for these models is either included in your plan or billed on a per-request basis.
This commercial license only applies for in-app or Roboflow-hosted use-cases. It does not apply in cases where a model is being self-hosted or used outside of the Roboflow ecosystem.
Users can self-host models on edge devices or their own cloud with our open-source Inference repository. All files in inference fall under an Apache 2.0 license with the exception of files in or under any directory that contains a superseding license file. The two notable directories with different licenses are:
All functionalities in inference which require a Roboflow API key utilize services associated with the Roboflow app or associated cloud services. These functionalities fall under the Roboflow Terms of Service and constitute “metered” usage. Examples include:
Every Roboflow plan contains limits for metered usage, which is tracked via a required telemetry heartbeat. Additional limits for metered usage and a license to run inference offline are available upon request.
YOLOv8 and YOLOv5 are distributed under an AGPL license, which requires modified source code to be published for download. Roboflow supports deploying these models with Inference, though they require a commercial license to use without AGPL restrictions.
Roboflow provides a commercial license to YOLOv8 and YOLOv5 to customers with active Starter and Enterprise subscriptions. This license applies to training and deployment through the Roboflow ecosystem (like self-hosting Inference); usage of these models outside of Roboflow is not covered.
This model is created & released under an Apache 2.0 license, but the Deci-provided pre-trained weights are under a special license.
If you train with Roboflow Train, commercial usage is allowed because we do not use the Deci weights. If you train your own model outside the Roboflow platform, ensuring adherence to the Deci YOLO-NAS license is your responsibility.
This section provides a review of the licensing of all models available for use with Roboflow.