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Clay

Clay Foundation
open weights / Overall score: 2.4

Clay is an Earth-observation foundation model that embeds satellite imagery together with location, time, and sensor metadata. The release provides pretrained weights and a configurable training interface for representation learning and downstream geospatial tasks. The Clay Foundation develops and distributes it.

Openness

4 high confidence
4.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
weights
open(Apache-2.0 checkpoint)
data
components-listed(Landsat 8/9, Sentinel-2 L2A, Sentinel-1 RTC, NAIP, LINZ and MODIS named one by one with bands and resolution
code
open(trainer, data module, configs, and model implementation released)

The full training machinery - trainer, data module and configs - is public, and the training-data page names each imagery source in turn rather than describing the corpus in prose. The assembled 33.8TB sample is not redistributed, which keeps Clay at open weights rather than fully open.

Adoption

1 high confidence
1.0

Downloads of the declared checkpoint on Hugging Face are the only adoption signal available for Clay.

Capability

3 high confidence
3.0

Clay documents two readable attributes, a configurable training path and sensor-, time- and location-aware inputs, one fewer than Prithvi-EO documents; capabilities the release page omits are not inferred from the architecture.

Verified 2026-09-10