GoogleReleased Oct 2020Apache 2.0

Vision Transformer (ViT)

We don't benchmark Vision Transformer (ViT).

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

Vision Transformer (ViT) Overview

Vision Transformer is an image classification model developed by Google Research, first published in October 2020. It applies the transformer architecture directly to sequences of image patches without convolutional layers. Each image is divided into fixed-size patches, linearly projected into embeddings, and processed by a standard transformer encoder with multi-head self-attention. A classification token prepended to the patch sequence aggregates global image information for the final prediction.

Vision Transformer (ViT) License

Apache-2.0 · Permissive license

Vision Transformer (ViT) 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 Vision Transformer (ViT) license is permissive, so no separate commercial license is required.

Commercial use: Permitted. Because Apache-2.0 is permissive, Vision Transformer (ViT) 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 Vision Transformer (ViT) on your own data before you depend on it in production.

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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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