Ask whether an open model allows commercial use and the answer is usually yes: 192 of the 200 models in our dataset allow it. The condition hiding inside that yes is a user cap, a clause that counts your monthly users and, past a fixed number, ends the permission the license granted. We counted the caps across all 200 records. 29 records carry a user threshold figure. Under the rule this site applies everywhere, a figure counts as a cap only when crossing it requires a separate license or permission. By that rule, 28 of the 29 are true caps.
The split: 23 at 700 million, 5 at 100 million
Every true cap in the dataset sits at one of two numbers. 23 models cap at 700 million monthly active users. Five cap at 100 million:
- Qwen 72B (Qwen)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct (Qwen)
- Qwen2.5-Math 72B Instruct (Qwen)
- Qwen1.5-MoE A2.7B (Qwen)
- MiniMax-Text-01 (MiniMax)
The other 172 records carry no threshold at all. If your product will never report nine figures of monthly users, the 100 million group is the only part of this table that can reach you, and it is five models out of 200.
Why the 700 million block is one family wearing many names
20 of the 23 records at 700 million are Meta's own Llama releases, from Llama 2 through Llama 3.3. The other three are not Meta products: Hermes 3 from Nous Research, Vicuna 7B from LMSYS, and NVIDIA's Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B. They carry the cap because they are built on Llama weights, and the Llama license terms travel with the weights into the derivative. A fine-tune does not shed the clause by changing the name on the model card. Our 700M MAU threshold explainer walks through the clause itself, including the part most summaries skip: it measures the monthly users of everything you and your affiliates ship, not just the product the model sits in.
Trap one: a number that is not a cap
Kimi K2 Instruct also records a 100 million figure, and it is the record that turns 29 thresholds into 28 caps. Crossing 100 million monthly users on Kimi K2 does not end your permission and does not require a new license. It triggers a branding duty instead: your product must display "Kimi K2" prominently, and a revenue line in the same clause works the same way. Our Kimi K2 license walkthrough covers the clause in full. A threshold that asks for a name tag is a real obligation, but it is a different kind of obligation, and counting it as a cap would overstate the wall by one.
Trap two: the cap Gemma does not have
One of the most common license questions reaching this site pairs Gemma with 700 million monthly active users. The Gemma terms contain no user threshold at all, not at 700 million and not at any other number. What the Gemma Terms of Use restrict is conduct: a prohibited use policy whose restrictions pass down to anyone who receives your derivatives, plus notice duties. Our Gemma license walkthrough covers those actual restrictions. In this dataset the 700 million figure belongs to the Llama family alone, and attaching it to Gemma sends founders off to negotiate a license that does not exist.
What crossing a cap actually means
A cap is not a speed limit with a fine. On the Llama pattern, a company above the threshold must request a license from Meta, and the grant sits at Meta's sole discretion; until it arrives, the materials are not authorized for that company at all. That is why the check belongs before the architecture hardens around a model. ShipSafe Filter runs exactly this rule: switch on the no user-count cap constraint, or type your expected monthly users into the optional field, and any model whose recorded cap sits below your number drops out, with the cap printed on its card. Two filter runs a day are free on your connection; after that, an email unlocks unlimited runs for the rest of the day.
None of this makes the capped models bad choices. It makes the cap a known date on the calendar instead of a surprise in a legal review, which is the whole point of counting them.
How we counted
The counts come from the user threshold field across all 200 records in the LocalAITools model license dataset, last verified September 15, 2026. A record counts as capped only when its recorded terms tie the threshold to a separate license or permission; display and branding duties triggered by a threshold are recorded as duties, not caps. Models released after that verification date are not in these counts. License texts govern over any summary, including this one, so read the license attached to the exact checkpoint you ship. This article is information about license terms, not legal advice.