Defined.ai data licensing: terms for sellers

What to know about Defined.ai

• Applications go through a Jira service-desk account. Defined.ai then researches commercial demand, evaluates the data's quality, volume, organization and metadata, and checks licensing rights, legal, compliance and cybersecurity. (Defined.ai, partnership programs, 2026-10-17)
• Commercial terms depend on dataset type, usage and customer needs, and Defined.ai says the partner approves them. It says it can consider usage restrictions case by case. There is no fixed minimum dataset size. (Defined.ai, partnership programs, 2026-10-17)
• All data must have proper consent, documentation and the right to commercialize it for AI training. Applicants with cinematic, anime, coding or STEM data get an expedited onboarding path. (Defined.ai, partnership programs, 2026-10-17)
• The published Data License Agreement is the buyer-side contract. It gives buyers a non-exclusive license and lets them commercially use models trained on the data, and either side can end it on 60 days' notice. A seller's records can therefore stay inside a buyer's models after a license ends. (Defined.ai, data license agreement (buyer side, effective Nov 30, 2022), 2026-10-17)
• Reuters reported in April 2024 that Defined.ai licenses data to Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, at about $1 to $2 per image, $2 to $4 per short video and $0.001 per word of text. Those are buyer prices; the seller's share was not reported. (The Decoder, on Reuters report of AI training data prices, 2024-04-06)
• In January 2026 Defined.ai reported 65% revenue growth, a 1,200% rise in third-party partner datasets and several partners earning more than $1 million a year. It gave no total revenue figure. (Defined.ai, reports 65% revenue growth, 2026-01-27)
• Daniela Braga founded the company in 2015. It has raised more than $85 million and holds ISO 42001 certification. (Defined.ai, awarded ISO 42001 certification, 2026-04-28)