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Watermark detail is secondary (press).","sources":["https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/","https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing/"],"last_checked":"2026-10-17","age_days":6,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-image-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Adobe Firefly","category":"image","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Limited daily generations (no published number)"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Adobe says outputs of non-beta features (and beta features unless stated otherwise) can be used commercially, free plan included.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":9.99,"note":"Firefly standard plan"},"output_ownership":"Commercial use permitted; Adobe makes no free-tier carve-out","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"Content Credentials metadata","notes":"\"Commercially safe\" framing covers Adobe's own Firefly models; no Adobe statement found extending it to partner models (Nano Banana, OpenAI, FLUX) inside the app. IP indemnity is an enterprise add-on, not on free or individual plans.","sources":["https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/plans.html","https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/faq.html"],"last_checked":"2026-10-23","age_days":0,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-image-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Canva","category":"image","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"20 uses of Standard/Premium AI tools a month, resets on the 1st"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Canva's AI Product Terms say you own your output and may use it for any lawful purpose, with no free/paid distinction.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":12,"note":"Pro, $144/yr"},"output_ownership":"User owns output (AI Product Terms, updated 2026-06-26)","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"Canva stock elements mixed into an output keep their own stock licence, which restricts selling items where the stock is the main value.","sources":["https://www.canva.com/policies/ai-product-terms/","https://www.canva.com/pricing/"],"last_checked":"2026-10-17","age_days":6,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-image-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Runway","category":"video","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"125 credits, one time, never refill; limited model set"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Runway says content you make is yours to use with no non-commercial restrictions, no free-plan carve-out. Free videos are watermarked.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":12,"note":"Standard, billed yearly ($15 monthly); removes watermark"},"output_ownership":"User retains ownership","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"Runway watermark on every free-plan video","notes":"Credits cannot be topped up on the free plan.","sources":["https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/18927776141715-Usage-rights","https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/50404627334547-Free-plan-details","https://runwayml.com/pricing"],"last_checked":"2026-10-22","age_days":1,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-video-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Ideogram","category":"image","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Weekly credits (no published number)"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Ideogram claims no ownership and permits commercial use, no tier restriction. Free-plan images are public.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":15,"note":"Plus, billed annually; first plan with private generation"},"output_ownership":"Ideogram claims no ownership","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"Every free-plan image is published to a public feed and can be remixed, so unlisted designs are visible to competitors.","sources":["https://ideogram.ai/pricing"],"last_checked":"2026-10-17","age_days":6,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-image-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Stable Diffusion 3.5 (self-hosted)","category":"image","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes, for individuals and businesses under $1M annual revenue (Stability AI Community License).","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"Enterprise licence above $1M annual revenue"},"output_ownership":"User owns outputs","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","notes":"Whether Stability still asks commercial users to register was not verified.","sources":["https://stability.ai/license","https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3.5-large"],"last_checked":"2026-10-18","age_days":5,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-image-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"FLUX.1 schnell / FLUX.2 klein 4B (self-hosted)","category":"image","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Both are Apache 2.0.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Apache 2.0; no output claim","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","notes":"Not FLUX.1 dev / FLUX.2 dev / klein 9B: those models are non-commercial, though their licence permits commercial use of outputs. Selling dev images is allowed; running dev inside a paid product is not.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell","https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-4B"],"last_checked":"2026-10-18","age_days":5,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-image-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"HiDream-I1 (self-hosted)","category":"image","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. The model is MIT-licensed and its card says generated images may be used commercially.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Model card says you own what you create","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","notes":"Bundled parts carry their own licences: FLUX.1 schnell VAE and T5 encoder (Apache 2.0) and a Llama 3.1 8B text encoder (Llama 3.1 Community License), so check that licence too before shipping it inside a product.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1-Full"],"last_checked":"2026-10-18","age_days":5,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-image-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Qwen-Image (self-hosted)","category":"image","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model (20B parameters); your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Not stated on the model card; Apache 2.0 places no claim on outputs","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"Released 2025-08-04; the card names no hardware minimum. Keep the Apache 2.0 licence notice if you redistribute the weights.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image"],"last_checked":"2026-10-21","age_days":2,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-image-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Google Cloud Text-to-Speech","category":"voice","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"4M chars/mo Standard + WaveNet; 1M chars/mo Neural2, Studio, Chirp 3 HD; Gemini voices no free tier"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. It is a commercial pay-as-you-go API with a free monthly allowance.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"$4 per 1M chars Standard/WaveNet; $30 per 1M Chirp 3 HD"},"output_ownership":"Commercial API","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"Needs a cloud account with a payment method; set a budget alert. 4M characters is roughly 70 hours of narration.","sources":["https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing"],"last_checked":"2026-10-19","age_days":4,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-voice-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Azure AI Speech","category":"voice","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"0.5M neural characters a month (F0 tier)"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. It is a commercial API with a free tier.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"Pay as you go; per-character price varies by region (not recorded)"},"output_ownership":"Commercial API","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"Same voice family as Clipchamp, with clearer terms.","sources":["https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/speech/"],"last_checked":"2026-10-19","age_days":4,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-voice-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Amazon Polly","category":"voice","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Older accounts: 12-month free tier (5M standard chars/mo plus smaller neural/long-form/generative allowances). Accounts opened since 2025-07-15: up to $200 AWS credits instead"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. It is a commercial API; new accounts get credits rather than the old free tier.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"$4 per 1M chars standard; $30 per 1M generative"},"output_ownership":"Commercial API","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"Payment method required.","sources":["https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/"],"last_checked":"2026-10-19","age_days":4,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-voice-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Kokoro-82M (self-hosted)","category":"voice","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; runs on a laptop; 54 voices, 8 languages"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Apache 2.0, and its model page says it can be deployed in production.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Apache 2.0","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","sources":["https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M"],"last_checked":"2026-10-19","age_days":4,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-voice-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Chatterbox (self-hosted)","category":"voice","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. MIT licence (Resemble AI).","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"MIT","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"Invisible \"Perth\" watermark on every file (Resemble says it survives MP3 compression and editing)","sources":["https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox"],"last_checked":"2026-10-19","age_days":4,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-voice-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"MeloTTS (self-hosted)","category":"voice","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free software (MIT); runs in real time on a CPU"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. The model card says the MIT licence makes it free for commercial and non-commercial use.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Not stated on the model card; MIT places no claim on outputs","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"English accents (American, British, Indian, Australian) plus Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Keep the MIT licence notice if you redistribute it.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/myshell-ai/MeloTTS-English"],"last_checked":"2026-10-22","age_days":1,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-voice-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"OpenVoice V2 (self-hosted)","category":"voice","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free software (MIT); voice cloning from a reference clip"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. The model card says V2 is released under the MIT licence and is free for commercial use.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Not stated on the model card; MIT places no claim on outputs","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"Native English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. It clones voices, so get consent from the person whose voice you copy. Keep the MIT notice if you redistribute it.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/myshell-ai/OpenVoiceV2"],"last_checked":"2026-10-23","age_days":0,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-voice-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Parler-TTS Mini v1 (self-hosted)","category":"voice","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model (about 0.9B parameters, English); your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Apache 2.0, a permissive licence that allows commercial use.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Not stated on the model card; Apache 2.0 places no claim on outputs","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"The card does not mention commercial use directly; the yes rests on the Apache 2.0 licence. Voice style is set with a text description.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/parler-tts/parler-tts-mini-v1"],"last_checked":"2026-10-23","age_days":0,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-voice-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"ACE-Step 1.5 (self-hosted)","category":"music","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; under 4GB VRAM for the base model; XL needs about 12GB with offload and quantization, 20GB without"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. MIT licence.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"MIT","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","notes":"XL variant added 2026-04-02. The project asks users to check outputs are original and disclose AI involvement.","sources":["https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5"],"last_checked":"2026-10-21","age_days":2,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-music-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Stable Audio Open (self-hosted)","category":"music","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes, under $1M annual revenue (Stability AI Community License).","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"Enterprise licence above $1M annual revenue"},"output_ownership":"User","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","sources":["https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-audio-open-1.0","https://stability.ai/license"],"last_checked":"2026-10-21","age_days":2,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-music-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"YuE (self-hosted)","category":"music","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model (7B); your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. The weights are Apache 2.0 (since January 2025) and the card encourages using outputs in commercial projects.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Card leaves outputs to the creator, who is responsible for not infringing existing works","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"Released 2025-01-26 by HKUST/M-A-P. Credit and an AI-generated label are requested, not required. The card lists no VRAM minimum.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/m-a-p/YuE-s1-7B-anneal-en-cot"],"last_checked":"2026-10-22","age_days":1,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-music-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"DiffRhythm (self-hosted)","category":"music","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; full songs up to about 1 min 35 s (base model); your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Code and weights are Apache 2.0. The developers ask you to check originality and disclose AI use.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Not stated on the model card; Apache 2.0 places no claim on outputs","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None stated","notes":"The card does not mention commercial use directly; the yes rests on the Apache 2.0 licence. It warns that outputs can resemble existing styles, which could infringe copyright.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/ASLP-lab/DiffRhythm-base"],"last_checked":"2026-10-23","age_days":0,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-music-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Wan 2.2 (self-hosted)","category":"video","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Apache 2.0; developers claim no rights over generated content.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"User","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","sources":["https://huggingface.co/Wan-AI/Wan2.2-T2V-A14B"],"last_checked":"2026-10-07","age_days":16,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-video-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"Mochi 1 (self-hosted)","category":"video","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes. Apache 2.0.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"n/a"},"output_ownership":"Apache 2.0","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","sources":["https://huggingface.co/genmo/mochi-1-preview"],"last_checked":"2026-10-07","age_days":16,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-video-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"LTX-2 (self-hosted)","category":"video","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; your own hardware"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes, unless your company has $10M+ annual revenue (LTX-2 Community License).","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"Paid commercial licence at $10M+ annual revenue"},"output_ownership":"Lightricks claims no rights in output","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","sources":["https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2/blob/main/LICENSE"],"last_checked":"2026-10-07","age_days":16,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-video-generators-commercial-use-2026"},{"tool":"HunyuanVideo 1.5 (self-hosted)","category":"video","free_tier":{"exists":true,"limits":"Free model; 14GB+ GPU memory"},"commercial_use_on_free":"yes","answer":"Yes, outside the EU, UK and South Korea; separate licence above 100M monthly active users.","paid_entry":{"usd_month":null,"note":"Separate Tencent licence above 100M MAU"},"output_ownership":"Tencent claims no rights in outputs","attribution_required":"no","watermark":"None","notes":"Licence territory excludes the European Union, United Kingdom and South Korea.","sources":["https://huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanVideo-1.5/blob/main/LICENSE"],"last_checked":"2026-10-07","age_days":16,"stale":false,"confidence":"verified","article":"https://money-lab.app/blog/free-ai-video-generators-commercial-use-2026"}],"fine_print":{"tier":"open","free_remaining_today":23,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","trace":"f1d9f8333f93","more_free":"send X-FP-Key (free key, 500/day) or a proof-of-work (50/day)","terms":{"free_with_key":"500 calls per UTC day per verified or funded key (POST https://money-lab.app/api/fp/key: GitHub account 90+ days old or a wallet with on-chain history). 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