Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By creating an account, checking the box that you agree to these Terms, or using the FreeTheAI website, any of its subdomains (including chat.freetheai.org and stocks.freetheai.org), the FreeTheAI API, or any FreeTheAI widget or embed (together, the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree, do not create an account and do not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, and able to form a binding contract. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" includes it.

2. What FreeTheAI is

FreeTheAI is a marketplace and gateway that routes your API requests to artificial intelligence models run by third parties ("Upstream Providers"), including independent sellers, donated keys, and commercial model providers. FreeTheAI does not create, train, or control those models.

The Service also includes FreeTheAI Chat (chat.freetheai.org), a chat application for signed-in accounts that sends your messages to those models, and FreeTheAI Stocks (stocks.freetheai.org), a market information website whose summaries are written automatically by AI. Sections 6, 7, and 8 apply to them in addition to the rest of these Terms.

FreeTheAI may add, change, rate-limit, suspend, or remove any model, provider, feature, free allowance, or plan at any time, with or without notice. Free access is a courtesy, not an entitlement, and may be reduced or ended at any time.

3. Your account

• You must give accurate information, use an email address you control, and verify it. Accounts whose email is not verified within 10 days of signup may be deleted without notice.
• You are responsible for everything done with your account and API keys. Keep your password and keys secret and tell us promptly through Support if you believe they were compromised.
• One person may hold one account. Creating multiple accounts to multiply free allowances, evade limits, or avoid a suspension is prohibited, and so is letting someone else use your account or API keys.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service, directly or indirectly, to:

• violate any law or regulation, or any right of any person, including intellectual property, privacy, and publicity rights;
• generate or distribute child sexual abuse material, content that sexualizes minors, or non-consensual intimate imagery;
• harass, threaten, defraud, impersonate, or deceive any person, or run spam, phishing, or malware campaigns;
• develop weapons capable of mass casualties, or plan or promote violence or terrorism;
• attack, probe, overload, scrape, or reverse engineer the Service, its CAPTCHA, or its infrastructure, or bypass any rate limit, allowance, verification, or security measure;
• resell, share, or pool access to the Service or your API keys except as FreeTheAI expressly allows;
• use the Service in violation of the usage policies of the Upstream Provider that serves your request.

We may investigate suspected violations and may suspend or terminate accounts, revoke keys, block IP addresses, and report unlawful activity to authorities, at our sole discretion and without liability to you.

5. Your content and outputs

You are solely responsible for the prompts, files, and other input you send ("Input") and for how you use the model responses you receive ("Output"). You represent that you have all rights needed to send your Input and that it complies with these Terms.

FreeTheAI does not store the content of your prompts or of model responses. To deliver a request, your Input passes through FreeTheAI's servers, which process it only as needed to route it, apply limits and abuse controls, and return the response, and it is transmitted to the Upstream Provider that serves it, which handles it under its own terms and policies (section 9). If an Upstream Provider returns an error, we may keep the error details it sends for troubleshooting, and in rare cases those details can quote part of the request.

Output is generated by third-party models, may be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, or harmful, and may be similar to output given to others. You must evaluate Output yourself before relying on it, and you must not present it as human-generated where that would mislead. As between you and FreeTheAI, you own your Input and, to the extent permitted by law and by the Upstream Provider, the Output.

6. AI output: may be wrong, never professional advice

EVERY RESPONSE YOU RECEIVE THROUGH THE SERVICE IS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. IT CAN BE WRONG, INCOMPLETE, OUT OF DATE, BIASED, OFFENSIVE, OR ENTIRELY MADE UP, EVEN WHEN IT SOUNDS CONFIDENT, CITES SOURCES, OR APPEARS TO COME FROM AN EXPERT. YOU USE OUTPUT ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

• Not professional advice. Output is not medical, mental health, legal, financial, investment, tax, accounting, insurance, engineering, safety, or any other professional advice, and it is not a substitute for it. No doctor-patient, attorney-client, fiduciary, adviser, or other professional relationship is created between you and FreeTheAI or any model. For any decision that matters to your health, money, legal position, safety, or anyone else, consult a qualified human professional.
• Not for emergencies. Never rely on the Service in an emergency or a crisis. If you or someone else may be in danger, contact your local emergency number or a crisis service immediately.
• Verify before you rely. You must check Output against reliable sources before acting on it, sharing it, or presenting it as fact. Names, numbers, quotations, dates, citations, links, prices, and descriptions of real people, places, products, and events may be wrong or invented, and links may lead to sites that are unsafe or not what the Output describes.
• Code and instructions. Code, commands, and step-by-step instructions in Output may be insecure, broken, or destructive. Review and test them in a safe environment before you run them, and keep backups. You alone are responsible for what you run.
• No high-stakes automated decisions. Do not use Output, alone or without meaningful human review, to make decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on people, such as decisions about employment, credit, housing, insurance, education, healthcare, immigration, or legal rights.
• Not our views. Output does not represent the views, opinions, or statements of FreeTheAI or its operators. Models may claim an identity, abilities, or knowledge they do not have, and may describe themselves or other models inaccurately.
• Your responsibility. You are solely responsible for every decision you make and every action you take based on Output, and for any harm to you or anyone else that results. FreeTheAI is not liable for any loss, injury, or damage of any kind arising from your use of or reliance on Output, as further set out in sections 13 and 14.

7. FreeTheAI Chat

• Saved on your device. Your chat history is stored only in your browser on the device you use. FreeTheAI does not store your conversations on its servers, cannot read your saved history, and cannot recover it. Clearing your browser data, using a private window, or switching devices or browsers can permanently lose it. FreeTheAI is not liable for any loss of chat history, and you are responsible for keeping copies of anything you need and for the security of any chat you download.
• Sent to get a reply. Saving history on your device does not mean your messages stay on it. Each time you send a message on a FreeTheAI model, that message is sent, together with the earlier messages of the conversation that the model needs for context, any images and the text read from any files you attach, your saved memories, and your chosen settings, through FreeTheAI's servers to the Upstream Provider that serves the model. Sections 5 and 9 apply to that content: FreeTheAI does not keep it, and the Upstream Provider handles it under its own policies, which may include logging, storing, reviewing, or training on it.
• One conversation, several services. If you use FreeTheAI models and a connection of your own in the same conversation, the earlier messages of that conversation are sent to whichever service answers your next message.
• Compacting. When you compact a chat, or Chat compacts it for you as it fills up, the conversation is sent to the model you chose to write a summary, which counts as a message. From then on the summary is sent in place of the earlier messages. A summary is AI output (section 6): it can leave out or get wrong what was said, and FreeTheAI is not liable for what it misses. The earlier messages stay saved on your device until you delete them.
• Memories. Facts saved as memories, the ones you ask to keep and lasting facts the model saves on its own from what you tell it, are stored only in your browser on this device and sent with each of your messages, on FreeTheAI models and on your own connections alike, so the model can use them. You can view and remove them or turn memories off at any time, and while they are off nothing is sent or saved. Do not save secrets or sensitive personal information as memories.
• Limits and checks. Messages count against free allowances and limits we set, which may change at any time. To protect the Service, we may refuse to continue a conversation we cannot verify was produced for your account by the Service, and we may require additional checks before a message is sent.
• Your own provider keys: Chat is only the interface. If you add a connection with your own API key, FreeTheAI Chat acts only as software running in your browser. Messages on that connection, together with the earlier messages of the conversation, go directly from your browser to the address you entered, without passing through FreeTheAI. That provider sees your IP address and your browser's ordinary request details, and may be told that the request comes from FreeTheAI Chat. FreeTheAI does not receive, store, transmit, review, or control those messages or that key, is not a party to your relationship with that provider, and does not endorse or vouch for any provider.
• That provider's rules apply. The provider's terms, usage and content policies, privacy and logging practices, prices, and charges govern everything you send on your connection. You are solely responsible for complying with them, including any rule about using third-party apps, for all usage, costs, and quota on your key, and for any action the provider takes against your account. FreeTheAI is not responsible or liable for that provider's service, availability, security, data practices (including whether it logs, stores, reviews, shares, or trains on your messages), or output, and section 6 applies to that output as well. Connections to software on your own computer or network, such as a local model server, are entirely your responsibility.
• Keys in your browser. Keys and connection settings you add are stored only in this browser on this device, like other site data. Anyone with access to your device or browser profile, or a malicious browser extension, may be able to read or use them. Use keys with spending limits where your provider offers them, revoke a key you believe was exposed, and remove your keys before using a shared device (deleting all chats also removes them). FreeTheAI is not liable for any use or misuse of a key you store in Chat.
• Do not enter passwords, payment card numbers, government identification numbers, health records, or other sensitive personal information about yourself or anyone else into Chat, whichever model or connection you use.

8. FreeTheAI Stocks

FreeTheAI Stocks provides general market information for informational purposes only. Its news summaries are written automatically by AI from market information gathered across the web and are published without human review. Prices, charts, ratings, and other data may be delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate. Nothing on FreeTheAI Stocks is investment, financial, tax, or legal advice, a recommendation or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold any security, cryptocurrency, or other asset, or an offer of any kind. FreeTheAI is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner. You alone are responsible for your investment decisions and their results, and you should consult a licensed professional before making any. The disclaimer published on FreeTheAI Stocks forms part of these Terms.

9. Third-party providers: no guarantee

Requests, including messages sent from FreeTheAI Chat on FreeTheAI models, are fulfilled by Upstream Providers that FreeTheAI does not own or control, which may be located in other countries. FreeTheAI makes no promise, representation, or guarantee about how any Upstream Provider handles your data, including whether it logs, stores, reviews, or trains on your Input or Output, where it processes data, or how long it keeps it, and FreeTheAI cannot retrieve or delete data that an Upstream Provider holds.

Paid models on the marketplace are served by independent third-party sellers, who are Upstream Providers. FreeTheAI cannot and does not promise zero data retention (ZDR) for any request: a seller that serves a request may log or keep its content under its own practices, and FreeTheAI cannot see, control, retrieve, or delete what a seller keeps. Sellers agree to our Seller Terms, which limit how they may use request content, but that agreement is between FreeTheAI and the seller and is not a guarantee to you.

FreeTheAI is not responsible or liable for any act, omission, data practice, outage, security incident, or content of any Upstream Provider. Do not send data you are not prepared to share with a third party, including secrets, credentials, or personal, health, or financial information about anyone.

10. Payments, cryptocurrency, and no refunds

ALL PAYMENTS ARE FINAL AND NON-REFUNDABLE. BY ADDING FUNDS TO YOUR WALLET OR BUYING A PLAN, YOU AGREE THAT FREETHEAI WILL NOT REFUND ANY DEPOSIT, WALLET BALANCE, OR PLAN PURCHASE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, EXCEPT AS STATED IN THIS SECTION OR AS REQUIRED BY A LAW THAT CANNOT BE WAIVED BY AGREEMENT.

• Cryptocurrency only. Deposits and plan purchases are paid in cryptocurrency through our third-party payment processor, whose own terms also apply to the payment. Prices are set in U.S. dollars. The processor shows the cryptocurrency amount to send, and your wallet is credited with the U.S. dollar value the processor confirms for your payment.
• Blockchain payments are irreversible. A payment is complete once it is confirmed on its blockchain, and neither FreeTheAI nor the processor can cancel or reverse it. You alone are responsible for sending the exact asset, network, amount, and address shown at checkout before the invoice expires. Funds sent to the wrong address or network, in the wrong asset, after the invoice expires, or short of the amount due may be delayed or permanently lost, and FreeTheAI is not liable for them; we may, but are not required to, try to help recover or credit them. Network, gas, and exchange fees are yours and are never refunded. FreeTheAI is not responsible for any change in the value of any cryptocurrency before or after you pay.
• No refunds for any reason, including a change of mind; unused or partly used balance or plan time; models, providers, prices, free allowances, or features that change, are rate-limited, or are removed; outages or errors of FreeTheAI or of any Upstream Provider; dissatisfaction with any Output; or suspension or termination of your account for a violation of these Terms, suspected fraud, or abuse.
• Wallet balance is prepaid credit for the Service only. It is not money, currency, a deposit account, or property. It earns no interest, has no cash value, and cannot be withdrawn, cashed out, exchanged, or transferred to another account. Plans run for the period shown when you buy them and are not prorated or cancelled early.
• Charges. Paid requests are charged from your wallet at the prices shown when each request is made. Failed requests are not charged: an amount held for a request that fails is released back to your wallet automatically, which is a release, not a refund. We may correct billing errors in either direction. You are responsible for any taxes that apply to your purchases.
• Immediate supply and withdrawal rights. Wallet credit and plan access are digital content supplied immediately after your payment is confirmed. By paying, you expressly request immediate supply and acknowledge that, where the law gives you a right to withdraw from or cancel a distance purchase, you lose that right once your wallet is credited or your plan starts. You confirm this by checking a box before each purchase, and your confirmation is recorded.
• Our limited exception. If FreeTheAI permanently shuts down the Service, or closes your account for a reason other than your violation of these Terms, suspected fraud or abuse, or a legal requirement, you may ask through Support within 60 days for the unused balance you paid for. We will return it in cryptocurrency, at its U.S. dollar value on the day we pay it, to an address you provide, less network fees. Promotional or free credit is never returned. Any other refund, credit, or accommodation FreeTheAI makes is a one-time courtesy at its sole discretion and does not change this policy.
• Fraud, reversals, and legal holds. We may hold, reverse, or forfeit balances and plans connected to fraud, stolen or illicit funds, payment reversals, sanctions or other legal requirements, or a violation of these Terms, and we may report such activity to the authorities.
• Monetary donations. Money you give through our donation pages (such as Buy Me a Coffee or our cryptocurrency donation link) is a voluntary gift. DONATIONS ARE FINAL AND NON-REFUNDABLE. They cannot be reversed, cancelled, or transferred, and they do not buy any product, service, credit, plan, perk, priority, or account status. A donation is not a payment for the Service, and the limited exception above does not apply to it. By donating, you confirm that you are authorized to use the payment method and that you will not dispute or charge back a donation you made. We may report a dispute of a donation you made to the payment processor as fraud, and we may suspend accounts connected to it. Donations to FreeTheAI are not tax-deductible charitable contributions.
• This refund policy is shown to you before you pay. You may request a written copy of it at any time through Support.

11. Donated API keys and sellers

If you donate an API key, you represent that you own it and are permitted to share it, and you authorize FreeTheAI to use it to serve other users' requests until you revoke it. You are responsible for any cost, quota use, or consequence under that provider's terms. Donations earn only the perks FreeTheAI chooses to offer, which may change at any time.

Sellers are also bound by the Seller Terms at https://freetheai.org/seller-terms, which they accept when they apply to sell.

12. Suspension and termination

We may suspend, limit, or terminate your access, delete your account, or refuse service to anyone, at any time and for any reason, including suspected abuse, security risk, legal requirements, or inactivity. You may stop using the Service at any time and may ask us through Support to delete your account. Section 10 governs what happens to a paid wallet balance or plan when an account is suspended, terminated, or deleted. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive it.

If we suspect abuse, we may pause your access to free models while we review it. Models you pay for from your wallet keep working during a pause. You can appeal through Support. We review the information we hold, our decision on an appeal is final, and we may not explain how a decision was reached. If we restore your access and the violation happens again, the account is terminated permanently. Accounts created or used to get around a pause, a limit, or a termination are closed as well.

When you ask us to delete your account, we close it: you can no longer sign in, your API keys and sessions stop working, and we remove your sign-in details and linked accounts. We keep your email address and the records described in our Privacy Policy, so the address cannot be used to register again. Deleting an account does not lift a pause or end a termination.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE, ALL MODELS, AND ALL OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FREETHEAI DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. FREETHEAI DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE, SECURE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY OUTPUT, SUMMARY, PRICE, OR OTHER INFORMATION WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, LAWFUL, OR SAFE TO RELY ON. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AI OUTPUT IS INHERENTLY UNRELIABLE AND THAT YOU ASSUME ALL RISK OF RELYING ON IT.

14. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FREETHEAI AND ITS OPERATORS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, ANY OUTPUT, ANY RELIANCE ON OUTPUT OR ON ANY INFORMATION PUBLISHED THROUGH THE SERVICE (INCLUDING ANY HEALTH, LEGAL, FINANCIAL, OR INVESTMENT DECISION OR LOSS), ANY LOSS OF CHAT HISTORY, ANY PROVIDER YOU CONNECT WITH YOUR OWN KEY, OR ANY UPSTREAM PROVIDER, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

FREETHEAI'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FREETHEAI IN THE THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) TEN U.S. DOLLARS. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THESE LIMITATIONS, SO THEY APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS.

15. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless FreeTheAI and its operators and contributors from any claim, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your Input, your use of or reliance on Output, any decision or action you take based on Output, your use of the Service, any provider key you connect, any key you donate, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us through Support and try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. Any claim that is not resolved must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction. To the extent permitted by law, claims must be brought individually and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative proceeding.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The version and effective date at the top show which version applies. When we make material changes we will give notice on the website or by email, and we may ask you to accept the new Terms. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept them.

18. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and FreeTheAI about the Service. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them. Questions about these Terms can be sent through Support in your dashboard.