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Weaviate has moderate defaults; Cohere API carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: COHERE API NOT RECOMMENDED · WEAVIATE ENTERPRISE TIER ACCEPTABLE
| RISK SURFACE | COHERE API | WEAVIATE |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
“ Feedback. ”
“ publish, market, advertise or in any way distribute the Content;”
“ As between the parties, Weaviate exclusively owns all right, title, and interest in and to the Weaviate Offering, System Data, and Weaviate’s Confidential Information, while Customer exclusively owns all right, title, and interest in and to the Customer Data and the Customer Con…”
“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.
“ “ Technical Services ” means consulting, configuration, technical training or other professional services provided by Weaviate to Customer.”
“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.
“ Weaviate provides the Weaviate Offering, including related software and technology, for ultimate federal government end use solely in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. If Customer is an agency, department, or other entity of any government, the use, duplication, repro…”
“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.
“ Please note that we may require you to provide additional information to verify your identity before responding to your request. Furthermore, there may be situations where we are lawfully entitled to deny or restrict your rights described in this Section. In any case, we will ca…”
“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.
“ Weaviate Cloud. ”