Non-exclusive
You receive the right to train on the data; the vendor may license the same data to others. This is the default for DataClue's in-stock datasets and is reflected in the published per-hour prices.
- Lowest cost per hour
- Fast delivery from stock
- Best for pretraining at scale
Exclusive
The vendor agrees not to license the data to anyone else, either permanently or for a fixed term, sometimes limited to a field of use (for example, household robots). Exclusivity on in-stock data is quoted case by case and depends on whether the data has already been licensed.
- Competitive moat on a specific domain
- Usually paired with custom collection
- Priced per project
Questions to settle in any licence
- Can you sell or deploy models trained on the data commercially?
- Can contractors (labelling vendors, cloud providers) access it?
- What happens to the data and models when the licence term ends?
- Who is the end buyer, and can the licence be assigned in an acquisition?
