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Ahrefs AI carries highly permissive license terms; Gemini Code Assist (Google) carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: AHREFS AI NOT RECOMMENDED · GEMINI CODE ASSIST (GOOGLE) NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | AHREFS AI | GEMINI CODE ASSIST (GOOGLE) |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“ 12.1. Ahrefs retains sole ownership of all intellectual property rights in Ahrefs Services, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and any other proprietary rights inherent in Ahrefs Services which encompass innovations, visual interfaces, graphics, design, com…”
“ You also agree that our Privacy Policy applies to your use of our services. We also provide resources like the Copyright Help Center , Safety Center , Transparency Center , and descriptions of our technologies from our policies site to answer common questions and to set expectat…”
“ c) reproducing, duplicating, copying, using or publishing any portion of Content or User Content to an infringing extent under any laws and regulations applicable to you under the Terms.”
“ Some of our services include content that belongs to Google — for example, many of the visual illustrations you see in Google Maps. You may use Google’s content as allowed by these terms and any service-specific additional terms , but we retain any intellectual property rights t…”
“ 13.2. You agree to our use of a third-party payment processor to process payments made for and in relation to Ahrefs Services. By submitting payment information such as your credit card details to us, you authorise the third-party payment processor to store such information and/…”
“This license is for the limited purpose of: operating and improving the services , which means allowing the services to work as designed and creating new features and functionalities. This includes using automated systems and algorithms to analyze your content: for spam, malware…”
The 'developing new technologies and services' purpose, combined with 'improving the services' and pattern recognition via automated systems, effectively authorizes use of user content for model/AI development without explicit opt-out for most users.
“ e) modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or reduce Ahrefs Services to human-readable form, or attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of models or algorithms of Ahrefs Services (unless legally compelled to by ap…”
“using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology”
Google expressly prohibits users from using Google's AI-generated outputs to train competing ML models or AI technology. This is a significant restriction on commercial use of outputs in AI/ML development contexts.
“ We only use your sensitive personal information for purposes referenced at Subsection 1798.121(a) of the CCPA, namely to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average California resident who requests those goods or services, and we do not use sensit…”
“ (ii) does not result in a material reduction of the”
“ 7. Subscription Plans and Payments ”
“ https://cloud.google.com/terms/direct-tos-exemptions for the applicable Services, these terms do not apply to you, unless you and Google agree otherwise in writing. If you become exempt from these terms after the Effective Date, this will not affect any liability arising be…”