GoogleReleased Jul 2019Apache 2.0

MediaPipe

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It is an open-weight model from Google under the Apache 2.0 license, and free for commercial use.

MediaPipe Overview

MediaPipe is an open-source framework developed by Google for building real-time machine learning pipelines across mobile, web, desktop, and edge platforms. First released in 2019, the framework uses a graph-based architecture where pre-built components called Calculators process streaming data such as images, video, and audio through configurable computation graphs. This design allows developers to compose perception pipelines from reusable building blocks without writing custom glue code between models. The current MediaPipe Tasks API replaces the earlier Solutions API and provides a unified cross-platform interface for vision, text, and audio.

MediaPipe License

Apache-2.0 · Permissive license

MediaPipe is released under the Apache 2.0 license, so it's commercially usable out of the box: you can ship it in closed-source, commercial products, including self-hosted deployments, without paying a license fee or open-sourcing your code. The MediaPipe license is permissive, so no separate commercial license is required.

Commercial use: Permitted. Because Apache-2.0 is permissive, MediaPipe can ship inside paid products and internal systems with no commercial license and no revenue threshold.
Modification: Permitted. Fine-tuning, quantizing, and distilling are all allowed, and your code changes can stay closed. Files you change must be marked as changed.
Redistribution: Permitted with attribution. Ship the Apache-2.0 license text and any NOTICE file alongside the weights or derived code.

Apache-2.0 grants an express patent license that terminates if you bring a patent claim over the work, and it disclaims warranties. Validate MediaPipe on your own data before you depend on it in production.

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Do I need a commercial license for MediaPipe?

This is the straightforward case: a permissive license is the best technical solution and you are free to deploy MediaPipe commercially without open-sourcing your own code.

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This model is released under the Apache License 2.0, a permissive open-source license that allows commercial use, modification, distribution, and patent use.

Yes. Under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, you can freely use this model for commercial purposes, including in proprietary products. You must retain the copyright notice and disclaimers when redistributing.

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