Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI are now paying the Wikimedia Foundation for enterprise-level access to Wikipedia and its related projects.
The announcement was made as part of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary celebrations.
These companies have joined Google in the Wikimedia Enterprise program, which was launched in 2021. The program offers a paid, premium version of Wikipedia’s API designed specifically for large businesses and AI companies that need reliable, structured, and scalable access to Wikimedia’s content.
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, the enterprise service is tailored for commercial use. It allows companies to request features, receive better-organized data, and access tools that better support products like search engines and artificial intelligence models. Wikimedia says this helps companies use its content more efficiently while reducing the technical strain caused by heavy automated traffic.
Microsoft, Perplexity, and Mistral AI joined the program over the past year, while Meta and Amazon were already partners but had not been publicly named until now. The fees collected through Wikimedia Enterprise help fund Wikipedia and other nonprofit projects run by the foundation, supporting long-term sustainability.
The Wikimedia Foundation says AI companies especially benefit from Wikipedia’s content, as it plays a major role in training language models and powering knowledge-based features. By paying for enterprise access, these companies are contributing financially to the platform they depend on.
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Wikimedia believes these partnerships create a more balanced relationship between the nonprofit and large technology firms. The foundation says reaching a sustainable model is important not only for Wikipedia’s future, but also for the companies that rely on its content to build and improve their products.
