Which open translation models can be used commercially?
Among the 50 most downloaded open translation models on Hugging Face, the top one whose license tag allows commercial use is google-t5/t5-small (apache-2.0, 19,660,741 downloads in 30 days). License tags are a first-pass reading — check the model card before shipping.
| google-t5/t5-small | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 19,660,741 downloads |
| google-t5/t5-base | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 2,872,417 downloads |
| Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-ru | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 622,028 downloads |
| Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-zh-en | cc-by-4.0 (permissive) · 594,648 downloads |
| Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 387,924 downloads |
| Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-de-en | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 325,139 downloads |
| Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-en | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 316,509 downloads |
| Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de | cc-by-4.0 (permissive) · 269,018 downloads |
| ai4bharat/indictrans2-en-indic-dist-200M | mit (permissive) · 251,501 downloads |
| google-t5/t5-3b | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 226,475 downloads |
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