Claim · 2026-10-13 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The StepFun Model License 1.0 requires a separate commercial licence agreement with StepFun AI before a hardware maker or brand owner begins to make the model's capabilities commercially available as a feature of its devices, or before commercial use by a licensee operating a Model-as-a-Service business whose combined revenue exceeds US$20 million over twelve months.

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What it connects

StepFun Model License 1.0 → states provision → Separate commercial licence for device makers and for MaaS operators above US$20 million revenue

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Claim and evidence

StepFun Model License 1.0states provision ↓Separate commercial licence for device makers and for MaaS operators above US$20 million revenue

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Provision: Statement · provision ID stepfun-licence-commercial
Date: 2026-10-13 · publication Records dated 2026 →

Scope and limitsWhat the licence text states (Section 2(c)); the section exempts internal use without third-party access and use through channels StepFun AI certifies. Enforcement is not recorded.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Step-5-Preview LICENSE.txt (StepFun Model License 1.0)

StepFun (stepfun-ai, Hugging Face) · 2026-10-13

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Source excerpt

“You must enter into a separate commercial license agreement with StepFun AI before You or Your affiliates”

Location in source Section 2(c), "Commercial License"

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: StepFun
Version: Dated document, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 01aa781a1a68a9007cb01dadf93ead44a31ee0dcd49e13c854c4129b4a894b83) directly from the publisher. Version: f3112587a3eb4b2144b93e95df52b7eb8c78bf7d. LICENSE.txt at the commit of 13 October 2026 ("Upload 2 files"), which added LICENSE.txt and LICENSE-CN.txt; the file at the commit of 15 October 2026 is byte-identical. The Chinese LICENSE-CN.txt was retrieved but not quoted.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: StepFun, “Step-5-Preview LICENSE.txt (StepFun Model License 1.0)”, 2026-10-13.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Chinese frontier-AI institutions, third collection (research/china-labs-3). The quotation (17 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day, read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Step-5-Preview LICENSE.txt (StepFun Model License 1.0)

StepFun (stepfun-ai, Hugging Face) · 2026-10-13

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Source excerpt

“operate a MaaS business, if the combined revenue of You and Your affiliates from all sources exceeds US$20,000,000”

Location in source Section 2(c)(ii)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: StepFun
Version: Dated document, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 01aa781a1a68a9007cb01dadf93ead44a31ee0dcd49e13c854c4129b4a894b83) directly from the publisher. Version: f3112587a3eb4b2144b93e95df52b7eb8c78bf7d. LICENSE.txt at the commit of 13 October 2026 ("Upload 2 files"), which added LICENSE.txt and LICENSE-CN.txt; the file at the commit of 15 October 2026 is byte-identical. The Chinese LICENSE-CN.txt was retrieved but not quoted.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: StepFun, “Step-5-Preview LICENSE.txt (StepFun Model License 1.0)”, 2026-10-13.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Chinese frontier-AI institutions, third collection (research/china-labs-3). The quotation (18 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day, read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

Date. Provision as stated in LICENSE.txt at the cited commit.

Record ID c3-stepfun-licence-commercial