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Who grants the right to sell

The creator, through what their membership or tier says. Patreon hosts it and takes the payment, but the designer decides what you get for your money and writes that into the offer. It usually covers everything published behind it, rather than being set model by model.

Where to find it

This section is about the platform's web pages, not its terms, so the terms can't confirm it. We haven't checked it against the live site recently, so treat it as a starting point and check the site yourself.

• The tier description itself. Commercial permission on Patreon is something the creator writes into what the tier includes; Patreon's own terms grant you nothing beyond access.
• The creator's pinned posts or linked terms page — many set out the commercial conditions once rather than repeating them per tier.
• Check whether the permission is described as lasting while you subscribe, or as something you keep for work made during the period. Those are very different and the difference is usually in the creator's words, not Patreon's.

What the labels mean

A tier's benefits

What the creator has undertaken to give you for the money. If selling prints is permitted, this is where it says so — and if it does not say so, it is not included.

Patreon's own licence

Access only. Patreon's terms say the creator grants members a limited, non-transferable licence and that members may not use creations in any way the creator has not authorised.

Worth knowing

• Patreon's terms call the licence a creator grants "revocable", and cancelling a membership or dropping below a tier threshold can end your access. That is the opposite of MakerWorld, whose terms call its licences irrevocable once published. It is also why a lapsed Patreon is such a common way to end up selling without permission.
• Access ending is not the same as permission ending, and neither Patreon's terms nor most creators' say clearly which happens to prints you have already made and not yet sold. Ask the creator, in writing, before it comes up.

What to keep

Terms change, and in a dispute what counts is what you agreed to on the day. Save a copy when you buy, not when someone asks for it.

• A copy of the tier description as it read on the day you joined, and each time it changes. Of everything on these pages, this is the most important thing to save, because the creator can edit the tier description whenever they like.
• Payment receipts showing exactly which months you were subscribed for.
• The creator's name and the tier name, so the record points at a specific undertaking.

The authority

This page describes how licensing works here in our own words. It is not a statement of what you are permitted to do, and it does not reproduce anyone's terms. Read the Patreon terms

Patreon is not a model platform — it is where many designers sell the commercial tier that a model platform does not offer. So whether you can sell prints is up to the creator. Patreon's terms only cover access.

Confirmed against the platform's own terms on 12 Sept 2026. Their document was last updated 27 May 2026 — if that date has moved, so may this page have.