MetaReleased Apr 2023Apache 2.0

Segment Anything Model (SAM)

We don't benchmark Segment Anything Model (SAM).

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM) Overview

The Segment Anything Model is a promptable image segmentation foundation model developed by Meta AI, released in April 2023 under the Apache 2.0 license. It introduces a general-purpose segmentation architecture trained on SA-1B, a dataset of over 1 billion masks across 11 million images collected using a data engine that leveraged the model itself. SAM accepts point, bounding box, and mask prompts and generates high-quality segmentation masks for any object in an image, including objects not seen during training.

Segment Anything Model (SAM) License

Apache-2.0 · Permissive license

Segment Anything Model (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 Segment Anything Model (SAM) license is permissive, so no separate commercial license is required.

Commercial use: Permitted. Because Apache-2.0 is permissive, Segment Anything Model (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 Segment Anything Model (SAM) on your own data before you depend on it in production.

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This is the straightforward case: a permissive license is the best technical solution and you are free to deploy Segment Anything Model (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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