Entities

ChatGPT (consumer) allows commercial use of outputs; free/Plus tier conversations may be used to train models unless you opt out.

Claude (consumer product by Anthropic) allows commercial use of outputs; conversation data handling differs by plan.

Gemini (Google consumer AI) permits use of outputs with attribution caveats; free-tier conversations may be reviewed and used for improvement; paid Workspace tiers have separate terms.

GitHub Copilot suggestions are usable commercially; prompts from paid plans are not used to train Copilot by default; Business/Enterprise disable training entirely.

Perplexity (AI answer engine) permits commercial use of responses; Pro search and API are separate products; source citations are mandatory by design.

Anthropic API permits commercial use; customer owns outputs; API inputs are not used to train Anthropic models by default.

Google Gemini API (paid tier) permits commercial use and does not use prompts for training by default; free tier uses data to improve Google products.

Groq is an ultra-low-latency inference API for open models (Llama, Mixtral, Gemma); commercial use permitted; data is not used to train base models.

Hugging Face hosts 1M+ ML models with per-model licenses; Inference API and Spaces free tiers permit commercial use; individual model licenses vary widely.

Mistral offers both proprietary and open-weights models; La Plateforme API permits commercial use; some open models are under permissive licenses usable commercially with attribution.

OpenAI API allows commercial use; you own outputs; inputs are not used for training by default on API tier.

Replicate lets you run open-source ML models via API with pay-per-second billing; commercial use permitted; individual model licenses vary per model card.

xAI's Grok API permits commercial use; API prompts are not used for training by default; Grok Heavy / Premium consumer tiers on X differ in data handling.

Cloudflare Pages is a free-tier-generous static/edge hosting; commercial use permitted on all plans; unlimited bandwidth included.

Cloudflare Workers is a serverless edge runtime; free plan allows commercial use with 100k requests/day; cron triggers and custom domains available on all plans.

Firebase (Google) offers generous free Spark tier for commercial use; paid Blaze tier is pay-as-you-go; custom domains on Hosting are free.

Fly.io deploys apps as VMs near users globally; pay-as-you-go only (no free tier as of 2025); commercial use permitted; good for stateful apps and custom protocols.

Netlify hosts static sites and serverless functions; Starter (free) tier allows commercial use but has bandwidth/build limits.

Railway is a developer-friendly PaaS for full-stack apps with $5/mo trial credit; commercial use permitted; services billed by usage (CPU/RAM/egress).

Render is a Heroku-like PaaS with free static sites + free web service tier; commercial use permitted on all plans; free web services sleep after 15min inactivity.

Supabase (open-source Firebase alternative) allows commercial use on all plans; free-tier projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity.

Vercel is a frontend hosting platform; Hobby plan is for non-commercial use only, commercial sites require Pro or higher.

BASE (Japan) is a free-to-start EC platform with strict checkout-page constraints; external ads on the storefront are limited; adult content is prohibited.

PayPal offers payments, checkout, and payouts APIs; commercial use is the core model; prohibited category list excludes adult, firearms, certain digital goods.

Shopify is a full commerce platform with rich API and checkout customization; ads are permitted; checkout customization is limited to Plus tier.

STORES (Japan) is a no-code EC platform (heyday/hey-merged); free plan is ad-supported storefront with fixed checkout; API access is limited.

Stripe is a payments API platform; commercial use is the primary model; restricted/prohibited business categories exist in the Services Agreement.