FAQ for Non-Commercial and Professional Memberships

General Membership

  • Professional or Enterprise memberships allow you to use all of the Stability AI Core Models commercially.

  • Please contact us and we can help you determine what kind of membership you need.

  • The Stability AI memberships are specifically designed to give our members commercial rights for self-hosting our Core Models in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), locally on-premise, or on your edge devices. It does not apply to usage of our cloud-hosted services or products, which are powered by the Core Models but which are run on the cloud infrastructure of Stability AI.

  • Self-hosting brings several benefits but it may not be for every company. Self-hosting the Stability AI Core Models may provide you with greater control, flexibility and resiliency for integrating and building on top of the Core Models. It can also provide increased security and privacy because data does not have to leave your IT environment. However, self-hosting requires you to have sufficient compute capacity and relevant technical expertise, in order to be able to manage both your own infrastructure and your deployments of the Core Models

Non-Commercial and Professional Membership: Models

Stability AI has other models not included in the list of Core Models, which anyone, including Non-Commercial members, can use subject to the terms of each model’s applicable license. Some of those models may be available for commercial use under their applicable license. For more information, please see the individual model’s GitHub or HuggingFace page, available through Stability AI’s GitHub or HuggingFace pages

  • The Professional membership provides you with access to and the right to commercially use all of the Stability AI Core Models, as listed on our Core Models webpage, which may be updated from time to time. We will continue to expand and enhance our Core Model offering as we develop new multi-modal generative AI models.

  • We strive to develop leading open models. We employ some of the leading researchers in the world, and they are working on amazing things. When we release our models, we ensure that they are at the top end of the relevant performance rankings, or that they bring additional options to the community in terms of form factors like size and speed.

  • Yes! You can try our models on our GitHub and HuggingFace pages. Once you would like to use the Core Models for commercial use, come back here to get a membership.

Professional Membership: Pricing and Payment

  • You can manage your membership settings in the “Manage Membership” link, on the Stability AI membership page. Here you can do things like cancel your membership, obtain copies of your invoices and receipts, or change your next payment method.

  • Professional membership grants you certain rights to use the Core Models. Stability AI is not providing an online service and usage of the Core Models is at your own determination.

    As a result, if you cancel your membership, that change will take place at the end of your current billing cycle, and you will not receive any credit or refund for the time remaining in your current billing cycle, except where local legal obligations may apply.

    You can cancel your membership for a future period at any time by using the “Manage Membership” link available on the Stability AI membership page. You will remain a member until the end of your current membership period. Once your current membership period expires, you cannot continue to: (a) use all of the Stability AI Core Models for commercial purposes, or (b) making commercially available any product or service that utilizes or embeds any portion of the Stability AI Core Models.

  • Please check your spam or junk folder for the automated email from Stripe, our payment processor. If you are still missing an invoice or a receipt, you can download these by using the “Manage Membership” link available on the Stability AI membership page.

  • Details can be changed by using the “Manage Membership” link available on the Stability AI membership page. If this doesn’t solve your problem, please contact us.

  • If you wish to upgrade to an Enterprise membership or require any other changes to your Professional membership, please contact us.

  • If you cancel your Professional membership, including by failing to pay applicable fees, you will not have the rights to: (a) use all of the Stability AI Core Models for commercial purposes, or (b) make commercially available any products or services that utilize or embed any portion of the Stability AI Core Models. Your rights to use the models will remain in effect until the end of your final billing cycle.

  • We appreciate that the price for Professional membership is currently a single amount applicable to all countries of the world and that individual personal circumstances are not the same, so the affordability of a membership may vary.

    Please contact us if you wish to use our Core Models commercially but find the cost to be a barrier, as we have some discretionary grants available to lower the price.

  • Stability AI is registered to collect taxes in many countries and must charge taxes where it is required to do so. The data you provide to us and Stripe, our payment processor, during the membership purchase process is used to determine what taxes may be applicable and whether you are exempt from paying tax. If you do not supply valid exemption documentation during this process, then we may be required to charge you tax.

    If you are charged tax, but believe this to be incorrect, please contact us within 14 days of your purchase. After this date please contact your local tax office in order to obtain a refund through local tax filing processes.

Non-Commercial and Professional Membership: Terms and Conditions

For Professional members, the full terms and conditions of your membership are contained within the Professional Membership Agreement, which may be updated from time to time. Please read the Professional Membership Agreement carefully before signing up for a membership. The below FAQs summarize some key points that we believe are important for Professional members to understand. In the event of a conflict between these FAQs and the Professional Membership Agreement, the terms of the Agreement will apply.

For Non-Commercial members, the terms governing your use of the Stability AI Core Models are found on each model’s applicable listing on the Stability AI GitHub page or the Stability AI HuggingFace page.

  • Professional members are allowed to use the Stability AI Core Models to:

    • embed or utilize the Core Models within that member’s own product or service, which can then be made commercially available; and

    • optimize that member’s internal business operations and processes.

  • Professional members are not allowed to use the Stability AI Core Models to:

    • violate applicable laws or the Stability AI Acceptable Use Policy;

    • attempt to circumvent or disable the Core Model’s safety or security measures, including any patches, filters or other updates which we may provide;

    • remove, obscure, or alter any notices of a third party’s intellectual property right;

    • pre-install them on any hardware device prior to its first sale, such as PCs, mobile phones, medical devices, etc.; or

    • resell, sub-license or otherwise transfer a member’s rights to the Core Models under the Membership Terms of Service to any third party (subject to the permitted uses contained within the Professional Membership Agreement).

    A full description of Professional member use restrictions and prohibitions are found within the Professional Membership Agreement, please read them carefully before signing up for a Professional membership.

  • Between Stability AI and a member, or its authorized user, that member or authorized user owns the “outputs” that they generate using the Core Model, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

  • If you would like to use the name, product names or logos of Stability AI, in any capacity, you must first contact us.

  • Yes!

    Full details are in the Professional Membership Agreement, but in summary:

    • A membership is needed for commercial use of all the Core Models,

    • As a member, you may build products and services, including fine-tunes, from the Stability AI Core Models, subject to the terms of you membership, and

    • Your customers may also need a membership if they will be receiving model code or weights derived from the Core Models.

    Please contact us if you have any questions.

  • We accept membership purchases from most countries in the world, except Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Crimea and covered regions of Ukraine, subject to changes to U.S. Export Administration Regulations or equivalent regulations of other jurisdictions.

  • Individuals purchasing a membership in their name, as opposed to the name of a legal entity, must be (i) at least thirteen (13) years of age and (ii) of legal age to enter into a binding contract in your legal jurisdiction.