YOLO26 Model Licensing and Pricing

What license does YOLO26 use?

YOLO26 is licensed under AGPL-3.0 (opens in a new tab). Ultralytics released it on January 14, 2026, in five sizes from Nano to Extra Large, for object detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, oriented bounding boxes and classification.

AGPL-3.0 lets you use, change and sell software built on YOLO26, on one condition. If you distribute that software, or let people use it over a network, you must publish the complete source code of the whole application under AGPL-3.0, including your own code that works with the model. A YOLO26 model you train on your own data is still covered by AGPL-3.0.

Do I need a commercial license for YOLO26?

You need one if YOLO26 runs inside a product or internal system whose code you can't or won't open-source. You don't need one for research, personal projects, or a project you publish in full under AGPL-3.0.

YOLO26 commercial licensing with Roboflow

Roboflow is an authorized licensor of Ultralytics models. Every Roboflow plan includes a commercial license for YOLO26 models you train or deploy with Roboflow, so you can use them in private commercial projects without the AGPL-3.0 conditions. The license lasts as long as you keep your plan.

Train and deploy YOLO26 on Roboflow

You can train YOLO26 on Roboflow for object detection, instance segmentation and keypoint detection, in all five sizes, starting from the official COCO checkpoint. Then deploy it to Roboflow cloud or your own devices. Compare YOLO26 against other models on the same images in Playground (opens in a new tab).

If you would rather avoid AGPL-3.0 altogether, RF-DETR is licensed under Apache 2.0 in most sizes.

To learn more about model licensing with Roboflow, see Roboflow Licensing.