Models and licensing

Approved models, detector support, and commercial licensing boundaries.

Models and licensing

deepface.dev only exposes models and detectors that have been reviewed for the managed service.

Approved backbone models

• Facenet
• Facenet512
• OpenFace
• Dlib
• SFace

Excluded models

VGG-Face

VGG-Face remains excluded. Its released weights are restricted to non-commercial research use and are not available on deepface.dev.

ArcFace via InsightFace weights

ArcFace models derived from InsightFace weights may require a separate commercial license. Do not assume those weights are cleared for commercial use without explicit legal review.

Detector guidance

The active detector allowlist is exposed through GET /capabilities. Start with the default detector unless you have measured a better fit for your input distribution.

Attribute analysis

Attribute analysis is intentionally absent from the managed API. The upstream attribute stack depends on VGG-Face-based components that are not approved for commercial use in this service.