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DeepSeek API carries highly permissive license terms; Groq carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK API NOT RECOMMENDED · GROQ NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | DEEPSEEK API | GROQ |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $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…”
“ 4.1 Website Content. You acknowledge and agree that the Websites may contain content that is protected by intellectual property rights, such as copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other rights and laws. You agree not to copy, modify, or create a derivative work of, se…”
“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.
“ 6.3 Restrictions . Customer will not, and will not allow its Authorized Users to, (a) copy, modify, or create a derivative work of the Cloud Services; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to extract any or all of the source code of, the C…”
“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.
“ 15.2 Customer Indemnification Obligations . Customer will defend Groq Indemnified Parties providing the Cloud Services and indemnify them against Indemnified Liabilities in any Third-Party Legal Proceeding to the extent arising from (a) Customer Data, any Customer Application, C…”
“ lending, selling, or sub-licensing the entire or part of the Services.”
“ 6.3 Restrictions . Customer will not, and will not allow its Authorized Users to, (a) copy, modify, or create a derivative work of the Cloud Services; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to extract any or all of the source code of, the C…”
“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.
“Data Retention”
The document lists 'Data Retention' as a section heading but the actual content of that section is not included in the provided document text. Retention periods and deletion rights cannot be assessed.
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“ 18.2 All prices for Resold Services will be solely determined between Customer and the reseller and all payment, billing, and invoicing terms under Customer's agreement with the reseller will prevail over this Agreement.”