Computer vision models are distributed under various licenses which can restrict or impact commercial usability. In order to use many of these models commercially, you need a commercial license from a company with rights to license the model.
Roboflow simplifies this process by including commercial licensing for models as a part of our paid subscriptions.
While each model has its own specific licenses, licenses at Roboflow fall under two broad categories:
The following table outlines licensing for models with restrictive licensing, like YOLOv11, YOLOv8, YOLOv5, YOLO-NAS, and YOLO-World. Roboflow does not provide commercial licenses for some models like YOLOv7 and YOLOv9. See the full list here.
The licensing that Roboflow provides depends on the deployment method.
Roboflow Cloud Deploy
Includes all of Roboflow’s managed cloud services like dedicated deployments and our serverless hosted API. Roboflow provides a commercial license for all models used in the app and hosted in our cloud environment.
Usage of our cloud deployments is metered and billed at the workspace level.
Self-Hosted Inference
Inference is Roboflow’s open-source repository for deploying computer vision models; we use it to power our own cloud services. Roboflow provides a commercial license for all available models for paid workspaces on metered deployments . Public workspaces use the base (restrictive) model license when self hosting Inference.
Usage of inference is metered and billed at the workspace level in cases where the deployed model or workflow uses a Roboflow API key (more info here). No commercial license is provided for unmetered usage.
Exported Weights
Certain paid plans come with the ability to export weights files from the Roboflow platform. Growth plans come with a commercial license for 10 embedded devices. Licensing for Enterprise plans is custom. For any questions, talk to our sales team for more information.
This section provides a review of the licensing of all models available for use with Roboflow.
