Glossary · Design tools
Model license
Also said as
commercial licensemodel licensinglicense terms
A model license is the rulebook for what you may do with an AI model's output — and for local models, whether commercial use is allowed at all.
Why it matters to your business
Free to download is not free to use for client work: one popular image model requires a paid license for commercial deliverables, and violating it is the single most common mistake in run-it-locally guides.
The catch · what vendors don't say
License-clean alternatives exist at every tier — the trap is assuming downloadable equals usable, because the license lives in a file most people never open.
