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Cohere API carries highly permissive license terms; Instantly carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: COHERE API NOT RECOMMENDED · INSTANTLY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | COHERE API | INSTANTLY |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
“6.1 Instantly Platform and Technology . Subscriber acknowledges that Instantly retains all right, title and interest in and to the Instantly Platform, including all algorithms, AI, language and visual models and improvements thereto, Integration Tools and all software and all In…”
“ publish, market, advertise or in any way distribute the Content;”
“ 4.1 Access Rights. Commencing as of the date that Subscriber purchases or orders the applicable Instantly Service, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and Instantly’s approval of your use of the Instantly Service, Instantly hereby grants to Subscriber a ter…”
“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.
“ We also use the Information described above for our own internal purposes – such as to improve, test, update and verify our own database; develop new products; operate, analyze, improve and secure our Services and our databases and servers. Deidentified Personal Informat…”
“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.
“ Data marketing services, for example: Operating our data cooperative and providing marketing information to our Clients (which may include companies, non-profit organizations, other data compilers, resellers and platforms, advertising networks, and political organizations),…”
“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.
“ Whether We “Sold” or “shared” This Category of Personal Information in the Last 12 Months ”
“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.
“This no-refund policy applies to all subscription plans, Credits, and any add-on or ancillary services, including but not limited to the VIP Services, “Done-For-You” service, Warmup Service, and Supersearch. 5.4 Third-Party Service Provider. Instantly uses Stripe, Inc. and it…”