Fact · Speech recognition
The NVIDIA Canary 1B model card lists its license as CC-BY-NC-4.0, a Creative Commons license that does not allow commercial use.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“arxiv: 2305.05084 arxiv: 1706.03762 License: cc-by-nc-4.0 Model card”
canary-1b model card, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, n.d., License line on the model card.
Open the original- What it measures
- The license appears in the card's metadata, next to the paper references.
- What it does not show
- The NC term means NonCommercial, so a company cannot use this model in a paid product without a separate license. The same family has newer models under CC-BY-4.0, so read the card for the exact model you want.