The licence shape

Licensing git repositories for AI training: sale or licence?

Updated 2026-10-22

2 buyers describe a non-exclusive licence and 3 leave the shape to the deal, a sale or a licence; 10 do not say.

Sale or licence, by count

Of the 15 buyers on the board, 2 describe a non-exclusive licence and 3 say exclusive or non-exclusive by deal. Among those, FileYield and License My Data also name a one-time sale or buyout as one of the options.

Why it matters before the price

A non-exclusive licence lets a company place the same repositories again; a buyout ends that. 10 buyers do not say which they take on the pages we read, so ask before any figure is discussed. Each buyer's licence wording is on its row of the board.

Tell us about the codebase

Describe the code, its history and who owns it. We tell you which buyers on the board take that kind of codebase and what to settle before you talk to one.

The code you own

What kind of codebase is it?

A production product with years of commits Internal tools and services Mobile or desktop apps A mix across several repositories

Languages, years of history, tickets and docs kept, and anything client-owned in the code (optional)

No repository access asked for
Every buyer answer quotes its own page

Holding years of repositories you no longer ship?

Describe the code, its history and who owns it. We tell you which buyers on the board take that kind of codebase and what to settle before you talk to one.

Describe my codebase

Sources

This site's own dataset, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

Who buys a codebase for AI training, and on what terms: 8 of 15 buyers, brokers and marketplaces for a company's codebase publish a price or range on the pages we read, read 22 October 2026.

No.	Source	Published by
[1]	DataVendor (marketplace: codebases, tasksets, RL environments) (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page)	sellcodebasetoai.com
[2]	SimpleClosure AssetHub (closing companies' codebases and workspace data)	simpleclosure.com
[3]	SimpleClosure, introducing the Asset Hub	simpleclosure.com
[4]	Grepped (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page)	sellcodebasetoai.com
[5]	Troveo business data	troveo.ai
[6]	Mercor Data (connects GitHub: repositories, commits, PRs, issues)	mercor.com
[7]	Nyne data partnerships (payout estimator)	nyne.ai
[8]	aitrainer.work, sell code, data or RL environments	aitrainer.work

Describe my codebase