MiniMax updates M2.7 license, explicitly states free usage for personal use, commercial restrictions remain unchanged

ME News message. On April 15 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by 1M AI News, two days after the license dispute, MiniMax’s Head of Developer Relations, Ryan Lee, added a new clause to the license: the 5th “Permitted Free Uses,” bringing the degree of freedom for personal use from prior verbal commitments into the legal text. The new provision clearly lists three categories of free licensed uses: (a) personal use, including self-deployment for programming, building applications, Agents, tools, integrations, research, and experiments; (b) non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and researchers for non-commercial research or education; © modifying the model solely for the purposes listed above.

The overall license framework remains unchanged: it is still the “NON-COMMERCIAL LICENSE.” For commercial use, written authorization from MiniMax is still required, covering paid services, commercial APIs, and commercial applications after fine-tuning. Clauses 3 and 4, which previously caused controversy, remain unchanged in full. In other words, individual developers can feel assured that they may self-deploy to run code, but third-party platforms such as OpenRouter that want to provide external M2.7 inference services still need to obtain authorization from MiniMax.

(Source: BlockBeats)