What license does YOLOE use?
YOLOE is licensed under AGPL-3.0 (opens in a new tab). Researchers at Tsinghua University (THU-MIG) released it in March 2025, and it was published at ICCV 2025. YOLOE is an open-vocabulary model. It detects and segments objects from a text prompt, from an example image, or with no prompt at all, without training on your classes first. Its code is built on the Ultralytics codebase.
AGPL-3.0 lets you use, change and sell software built on YOLOE, 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.
Do I need a commercial license for YOLOE?
You need one if YOLOE 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.
YOLOE commercial licensing with Roboflow
YOLOE is one of the AGPL-3.0 models Roboflow is licensed to cover commercially. A Roboflow license lets you use YOLOE in a private commercial project without the AGPL-3.0 obligation to open-source your code. To use YOLOE in production under a Roboflow license, contact sales.
To learn more about model licensing with Roboflow, see Roboflow Licensing.