AI LLM License & Commercial-Use Checker

This is a lookup-and-decision tool, not a calculator. Every model maps to a single canonical license — Apache 2.0, MIT, the Llama Community License, Google's Gemma Terms, the Tongyi Qianwen License, CC-BY-NC 4.0, the Mistral Research License, or a provider's API terms — and the commercial-use verdict is derivedfrom that license's category. Nothing is hand-asserted per row, so a model can never silently contradict its own license.

Each license sits in one of four buckets, and the verdict follows directly:

• Permissive (Apache 2.0, MIT) → Allowed. Commercial use with no monthly-active-user cap; your only obligation is to keep the license / NOTICE file. Mistral 7B, Qwen3, DeepSeek, Phi, Granite and friends live here.
• Conditional (Llama Community, Gemma, Tongyi Qianwen) → Conditional. Commercial use is allowed, but specific clauses apply: an MAU ceiling (700M for Llama, 100M for Qwen2.5-72B), an attribution string such as "Built with Llama", a fine-tune naming rule, and an acceptable-use policy.
• Non-commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0, Mistral Research License) → Not allowedfor the weights. Cohere Command R+ open weights and Mistral Large's research weights cannot ship in a paid product; the tool points you to the provider's API instead.
• API terms-of-service (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) → Allowed via API. There are no weights to redistribute; commercial use is governed by the provider's business terms and you generally own the outputs, subject to their usage policy.

The condition chips on each card — MAU ceiling, attribution, fine-tune naming, "ship the license copy", acceptable-use policy — are explicit per-model fields, each justified by a quoted clause in the data module, never inferred. To keep the catalogue honest, the build runs an internal cross-check: it re-derives every verdict a second way, from the license clauses alone, and asserts the two methods agree. The "18entries · cross-checked" badge means all of them reconcile. Filtering and search run entirely in your browser over this static dataset — no API calls, no keys, instant.

• Meta — Llama Community License (MAU ceiling, attribution, naming)
• Google — Gemma Terms of Use & Prohibited Use Policy
• Apache License 2.0 (Mistral, Qwen3, Falcon 2, Granite, OLMo, Yi)
• MIT License (DeepSeek V3/R1, Microsoft Phi)
• Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Cohere Command R / R+ weights)
• Mistral — Research License & Commercial License
• Anthropic — Commercial Terms of Service
• OpenAI — Business Terms & Usage Policies
• Google — Gemini API Terms of Service

Each model row was last cross-checked against its official license on 2026-06-19. License terms change between model versions — this page tracks the current version per family, not a historical changelog. It is informational and not a substitute for legal advice.