Marker
apache-licensed code, and weights you may not use once your company raises five million dollars.
cheap, well-benchmarked and widely believed to be open source — the model weights carry a revenue and funding gate the code licence doesn't.
at a glance marker is apache 2.0 and free. the code is. the model weights, downloaded from the companion surya repository, ship under a modified ai pubs openrail-m licence that grants free use only for personal projects, research, or organisations under $5 million in trailing-twelve-month revenue and under $5 million in total lifetime equity or debt funding — and prohibits use outright, at any size, by anyone offering a product that competes with datalab.
self-hosting does not avoid this, because the restriction attaches to the weights rather than the distribution. a well-funded startup running marker locally on the strength of the apache badge is in breach and owes datalab a commercial licence, and no revenue figure exempts a competitor.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- document extraction apis
- pricing
- $4 / 1,000 pages
- website
- datalab.to
cheap, well-benchmarked and widely believed to be open source — the model weights carry a revenue and funding gate the code licence doesn't.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.