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Cohere API carries highly permissive license terms; Cursor carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: COHERE API NOT RECOMMENDED · CURSOR NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | COHERE API | CURSOR |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
“You agree that any suggestion or idea provided by you (such suggestions or ideas, “ Feedback ”) will not be treated as confidential, and nothing in these Terms of Use will restrict our right to use, profit from, disclose, publish or otherwise exploit any Feedback, without compens…”
Feedback submitted by users — which could be interpreted broadly to include prompts or suggestions provided to the platform — is subject to a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free worldwide license with no compensation to the user.
“ 13. Indemnity. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you are responsible for your use of the Service, and you will defend and indemnify Anysphere, its affiliates and each of their respective shareholders, directors, managers, members, officers, employees, consultants, and agen…”
“ publish, market, advertise or in any way distribute the Content;”
“ 5.1. Service. Anysphere and its licensors shall own and retain all right, title and interest in and to the Service, all improvements, enhancements or modifications thereto, and all intellectual property rights associated with the foregoing. There are no implied licenses in these…”
“For Trial Users and Researchers (i.e. users interacting with Cohere Products on research-specific platforms like Hugging Face, Cohere Labs grantee users, or users demoing Cohere Products under a free trial account), we collect content you submit to the Cohere Products, and output…”
Trial Users and Researchers have their inputs and outputs used for model training and R&D by default, with no explicit opt-out described in this section.
“ 1.4. Limitations for Suggestions. You acknowledge that Suggestions are generated automatically by machine learning technology and may be similar to or the same as Suggestions provided to other customers, and no rights to any Suggestions generated, provided, or returned by the Se…”
“use the Cohere Solution or any Content that You receive through or from the Cohere Solution for the purpose of building a similar or competitive product or service;”
Users are expressly prohibited from using outputs to build competing or similar products/services, significantly restricting downstream commercial development.
“ Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply where Anysphere acts as a data processor and processes personal data on behalf of commercial customers using our commercial services, for example, if your employer has provisioned a Cursor account for you to use at work. Our us…”
“Safeguards, Retention and Privacy Governance”
The document references a 'Safeguards, Retention and Privacy Governance' section but does not provide its content in the supplied text. Retention periods and deletion rights cannot be assessed from this excerpt.
“Anysphere retains your personal data only for as long as necessary to operate the Service effectively and to support legitimate business needs such as legal compliance, safety, dispute resolution, and enforcement of our agreements. The appropriate retention period varies dependin…”
No specific retention periods are stated. 'As long as necessary' and 'legitimate business needs' are vague standards. Safety and system monitoring data is retained for an unspecified 'limited duration' even for ephemeral interactions.
“Section 2.3 (Research and Model Improvement): Analyzing usage patterns and using Trial or Research User Inputs/Outputs to improve the performance and safety of our AI models.”
Model training use of inputs/outputs is explicitly scoped to 'Trial or Research Users', implying paid or enterprise users may not have their data used for training. However, this distinction is not clearly defined elsewhere in the extracted text, creating ambiguity about which tier a given user falls into.
“ 1.6. Beta Services . From time to time, Anysphere may make Beta Services available to you. Beta Services shall be clearly designated as beta, pilot, limited release, non-production, early access, evaluation or a similar description. You may choose to use or not use such Beta Ser…”