Nonprofit organization using Earth Engine for noncommercial activities

Earth Engine will remain free of charge for nonprofit organizations using the services for scientific research, education, or noncommercial activities. Nonprofit organizations that receive Earth Engine free of charge may not:

• Use Earth Engine to sell a product or a service, including fulfilling a deliverable, output, result, or task of an agreement or contract with a commercial, government, nonprofit, or other entity. In addition, these organizations may not charge or receive compensation from commercial entity for applications or data created by the use of Earth Engine.
• Perform compensated contract work on behalf of government or commercial entities.

If any of these criteria do apply, you require a commercial license to use Earth Engine for these purposes.

Academic or educational institution using Earth Engine for research or teaching

Earth Engine will remain free of charge for students, faculty, or staff at an academic or educational institution, e.g. K-12, college, university, and will use Earth Engine for academic research or teaching purposes. Academic or educational institutions receiving Earth Engine for free may not:

• Use Earth Engine to sell a product or a service, including fulfilling a deliverable, output, result, or task of an agreement or contract with a commercial, government, nonprofit, or other entity. In addition, these organizations may not receive compensation from commercial entity for applications or data created by the use of Earth Engine.
• Perform compensated contract work on behalf of government or commercial entities.

If any of these criteria do apply, you require a commercial license to use Earth Engine for these purposes.

News media organization

Earth Engine will remain free of charge for journalists at an organization whose primary mission is journalism.

Certain government agencies

Earth Engine will remain free of charge for Government agencies using Earth Engine noncommercially in the following cases:

• The agency is from a Least Developed Country, as defined by the United Nations (list).
• The agency is part of an Indigenous Government, officially recognized by the national government.
• The agency is using Earth Engine for scholarly research (e.g. peer-reviewed paper, thesis, report, article, publication, per TOS section 2.1b).

Government agencies are not permitted to use Earth Engine free for charge for the following (in these cases, a commercial license is required):

• Internal research and development, prototyping, or testing for internal purposes.
• The repeated production of data products; the production of tooling for management, analysis, or visualization of data; the production of policy, or web applications.
• Creating datasets, apps, services that are maintained on an on-going basis.
• Producing datasets where the primary goal is to enable operational workloads.

Noncommercial access to Earth Engine for government agencies is subject to review by Google. Government users must use an institutional Google account supported by their agency.

Trainer or Trainee of Earth Engine for a finite period

Earth Engine will remain free of change to users offering Earth Engine training or to users taking a training course to learn Earth Engine. You may use Earth Engine free of charge for training only, for the duration of the training course. You may charge for your training services, but you cannot charge for use of Earth Engine.

Individual using Earth Engine for noncommercial purposes

You are an individual developer using Earth Engine for noncommercial purposes. Individuals receiving Earth Engine for free may not:

• Use Earth Engine to sell a product or a service, including fulfilling a deliverable, output, result, or task of an agreement or contract with a commercial, government, nonprofit or other entity.
• Receive compensation for applications or data created by the use of Earth Engine.
• Perform work (compensated or not) on behalf of entities covered by commercial terms.