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DeepSeek API carries highly permissive license terms; Dify carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK API NOT RECOMMENDED · DIFY NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK API | DIFY |
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| PPrompt Ownership | ||
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| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
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| $Tier Differences |
“ 4.1 You are responsible for all Inputs you submit to our Services and corresponding Outputs. By submitting Inputs to our Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process the Inputs under our Terms. Y…”
“ 5.1 The Service is made available on a limited access basis, and no ownership rights are conveyed to you. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Terms, we and our licensors have and retain all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in…”
“Specifically, within DeepSeek's product services, these models, based on user input information (referred to as "Inputs"), compute and infer to output corresponding content as a response (referred to as "Outputs" ), including text, tables, and code. U”
The document is truncated and may contain an output-ownership clause later. Absence of an explicit grant to users of output ownership is a risk.
“ 5.1 The Service is made available on a limited access basis, and no ownership rights are conveyed to you. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Terms, we and our licensors have and retain all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in…”
“To improve and develop the Services and to train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms. Including by monitoring interactions and usage across your devices, analyzing how people are using it, and training and improving our technology.”
User inputs, outputs, and behavioral data are explicitly used to train and improve AI models with no opt-out mechanism described in this section.
“Operate, maintain and improve our internal operations, systems, Sites, and Products”
The policy does not explicitly address whether user content is used for AI/ML model training. 'Improve Products' could encompass training use, but this is not confirmed or denied.
“ lending, selling, or sub-licensing the entire or part of the Services.”
“ g. Service interruption caused by measures taken in accordance with regulatory requirements of the competent authority, such as prohibitions or similar notices issued by the competent authority involving your account, service or equipment;”
“the right to delete Personal Data you’ve provided to us, or that we’ve obtained about you;”
The policy references a deletion right but provides no detail on actual retention periods, deletion timelines, or what happens to data already used in model training upon deletion request.
“We use this information to reshare content created through the use of the Service. The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our service and inform our marketing strategy).”
Information from social network interactions can be reshared by LangGenius for marketing strategy purposes under a 'legitimate interests' basis without explicit user consent.
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“ From time to time, Dify.AI may invite Customer and Users to discuss or evaluate certain pre-release or beta releases on a trial basis (collectively “Beta Releases” ) of the Licensed Platform. Customer may accept or decline any such evaluation or trial. Beta Releases designated b…”