Fact · Speech recognition
Distil-Whisper, Hugging Face's distilled version of Whisper, is MIT licensed, so it can be used for commercial applications.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Permissive license: Distil-Whisper is MIT licensed , meaning it can be used for commercial applications.”
Distil-Whisper README, Hugging Face, GitHub (huggingface/distil-whisper), n.d., README, licensing section.
Open the original- What it measures
- The README lists the license among the project's headline features.
- What it does not show
- The MIT license covers Distil-Whisper's code and the project's own weights. Check each checkpoint's card, because the models Distil-Whisper was distilled from carry their own terms.