IDEA ResearchReleased Jan 2024Apache 2.0

Grounded SAM

We don't benchmark Grounded SAM.

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

Grounded SAM Overview

Grounded SAM is an open-vocabulary image segmentation model developed by IDEA Research, released in January 2024 under the Apache 2.0 license. It combines Grounding DINO, a zero-shot open-vocabulary object detector, with the Segment Anything Model to produce precise segmentation masks for objects identified through free-form text prompts. The two models are used sequentially: Grounding DINO localizes objects from a text query, and SAM generates the corresponding segmentation masks.

Grounded SAM License

Apache-2.0 · Permissive license

Grounded SAM 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 Grounded SAM license is permissive, so no separate commercial license is required.

Commercial use: Permitted. Because Apache-2.0 is permissive, Grounded SAM 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 Grounded SAM on your own data before you depend on it in production.

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Do I need a commercial license for Grounded SAM?

This is the straightforward case: a permissive license is the best technical solution and you are free to deploy Grounded SAM 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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