The AUP applies to everyone using the Service, is part of your agreement, and controls on acceptable-use conflicts
Anysphere's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) applies to anyone using the Service, including consumers, developers and businesses, regardless of subscription tier or how the Service is accessed. It forms part of, and is incorporated by reference into, your agreement with Anysphere, Inc. or its Affiliates. Your AUP obligations are in addition to your obligations under your Agreement, and if the AUP conflicts with the Agreement, the AUP controls with respect to acceptable use. The page is labeled “Last updated August 11, 2026.”
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applies to anyone using our Service, including consumers, developers and businesses, regardless of subscription tier or how the Service is accessed.
This AUP forms part of, and is incorporated by reference into, your agreement with Anysphere, Inc. or its Affiliates
Your obligations under this AUP are in addition to your obligations under your Agreement.
In the event of a conflict between this AUP and your Agreement, this AUP controls with respect to acceptable use.
Last updated August 11, 2026
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Your “Agreement” is not defined in this source, so which agreement the AUP is incorporated into depends on your relationship with Anysphere.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
You must follow the AUP and ensure others on your account do too; violations can lead to suspension or termination
By using the Service you agree to comply with Anysphere's policies. If you let others use the Service under your account, you are responsible for ensuring they know and follow the AUP. Violating the policies could result in action against your account, up to suspension or termination. Anysphere says its policies will evolve over time as the Service and user base change and based on what it learns.
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If you allow others to use the Service under your account, you are responsible for ensuring they know and follow this AUP.
By using our Service, you agree to comply with our policies.
Violating our policies could result in action against your account, up to suspension or termination.
Our policies will evolve over time as our Service and user base change, as well as based on what we learn over time.
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How Anysphere notifies users of policy changes is not stated in this sentence.
The text says “could result in action”; which actions short of suspension or termination apply is not specified.
Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception
Your data may be routed to Anysphere and third-party AI models; Model Providers' acceptable use policies also apply
The Service may route your data to AI models provided by Anysphere and by third-party model providers (“Model Providers”). When you access a third-party AI model through the Service, that Model Provider's acceptable use policy also applies, and you are responsible for ensuring your use complies with both the AUP and that policy. Those third-party policies are not part of this source.
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The Service may route your data to AI models provided by us and by third-party model providers
When you access a third-party AI model through the Service, the applicable Model Provider
acceptable use policy also applies.
You are responsible for ensuring your use of the Service complies with this AUP and the applicable third-party Model Provider
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Which third-party Model Providers receive data, and what their acceptable use policies say, is not stated here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Permission or license
You may use the Service if you act safely and responsibly, follow the law, do not harm people and respect guardrails
Anysphere says you are free to use the Service so long as you use it to be a good human, act safely and responsibly, comply with the law, not harm people and respect its guardrails. A list of more specific prohibitions follows.
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You are free to use our Service so long as you use it to be a good human, act safely and responsibly, comply with the law, not harm people, and respect our guardrails:
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“Be a good human” is not defined beyond the specific prohibitions that follow.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not use the Service or Suggestions to promote or engage in illegal, harmful or abusive activities
The first AUP rule says to comply with the law. As an example, you should not use the Service or Suggestions to promote or engage in illegal, harmful or abusive activities, including the specific items listed after it. In the extracted text the list nesting is not preserved, so which items fall under which “including by:” lead-in is read from their order.
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Comply with the law. For example,
use our Service or Suggestions to promote or engage in illegal, harmful, or abusive activities, including:
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The nesting of the following items under this rule is not preserved in the extracted text.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not copy, resell, reverse engineer or distill the Service or its models, except where law prohibits the restriction
Under the heading of detrimentally impacting the Service, you may not modify, copy, translate, lease, sell, resell, distribute, distill or manipulate the Service, use bots to access it, or reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise seek to obtain the source code of the Service, including its systems, models or algorithms. This restriction does not apply to the extent applicable law prohibits it.
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Detrimentally impacting the Service, including by:
Modifying, copying, translating, leasing, selling, reselling, distributing, distilling, manipulating, using bots to access, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise seek to obtain the source code of our Service, including our systems, models, or algorithms (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law)
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Do not jailbreak or prompt-inject, introduce malware, spam or DDoS, or disrupt or bypass the Service's protections
Detrimentally impacting the Service includes jailbreaking, adversarial prompting or prompt injection; introducing viruses or malware, spamming or DDoSing the Service, or bypassing its systems or protective measures; and disrupting, interfering with, or gaining unauthorized access to the Service or its safety systems, including circumventing rate limits, restrictions, protective measures and safety mitigations.
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Detrimentally impacting the Service, including by:
Jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, or prompt injection
Introducing viruses or malware, spamming or DDoSing the Service, or bypassing our systems or protective measures
Disrupting, interfering with, or unauthorized access to the Service or its safety systems, including circumventing any rate limits or restrictions or protective measures and safety mitigations
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Whether any authorized security testing is permitted is not stated here; a later guardrails item refers to Anysphere's official written consent.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not strip, alter or circumvent embedded provenance metadata or watermarks
Detrimentally impacting the Service includes stripping, altering or circumventing embedded provenance metadata or watermarks.
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Detrimentally impacting the Service, including by:
Stripping, altering or circumventing embedded provenance metadata or watermarks
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Which outputs carry embedded provenance metadata or watermarks is not stated.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Do not build competing AI models with the Service, or scrape, harvest, resell or distill Inputs and Suggestions
Detrimentally impacting the Service includes using the Service or any Suggestion to develop machine learning models or related AI services that compete with Anysphere or the Model Providers, and scraping, harvesting or reselling any Input or Suggestion, or distilling model data or Suggestions.
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Detrimentally impacting the Service, including by:
Using the Service or any Suggestion to develop machine learning models or related AI services that compete with Anysphere or the Model Providers
Scraping, harvesting or reselling any Input or Suggestion, or distilling model data or Suggestion
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Whether reselling your own Inputs is covered is not stated; the text says “any Input or Suggestion”.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Do not manipulate billing or usage metering or exploit account workflows to avoid fees or obtain unearned credits
Detrimentally impacting the Service includes manipulating, circumventing or interfering with Anysphere's subscription, billing or usage-metering systems, including through direct or automated means, and exploiting account provisioning, team management or user assignment workflows to avoid or reduce fees, obtain unauthorized credits or refunds, or otherwise receive the Service without paying applicable charges.
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Detrimentally impacting the Service, including by:
Manipulating, circumventing, or interfering with Anysphere
subscription, billing, or usage-metering systems, including through direct or automated means
Exploiting account provisioning, team management, or user assignment workflows to avoid or reduce fees, obtain unauthorized credits or refunds, or otherwise receive Service without paying applicable charges
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not critically harm or promote harming human life, including pro-terrorist activity, or engage in animal cruelty
Under the lead-in about causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, you may not critically harm, or promote critically harming, human life (yours or anyone else's), including pro-terrorist activities, or engage in animal cruelty. In the extracted text the items after the lead-in are a flat list, so the grouping is read from their order.
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Causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, including by:
Critically harming or promoting critically harming human life (yours or anyone else
including pro-terrorist activities
Engaging in animal cruelty
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The source's list nesting is flat; the grouping under the causing-harm lead-in is inferred from order.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Do not violate copyright, trademark or other intellectual property law
Under the lead-in about causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, you may not violate copyright, trademark or other intellectual property law.
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Causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, including by:
Violating copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property law
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not violate privacy or publicity rights, including nudifying, impersonating or defamatorily depicting real people
You may not use the Service in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates a person's privacy or right to publicity, including by undressing or nudifying real persons or otherwise altering a real person's image or likeness to depict them in an intimate or sexual context; deceptively impersonating a real person; depicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic manner; or depicting a person in a defamatory manner or portraying them in a false light.
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Using the Service in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates a person
Undressing or nudifying real persons, or otherwise altering a real person
Deceptively impersonating a real person
Depicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic manner
Depicting a person in a defamatory manner or portraying them in a false light
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Whether consent from the depicted person changes any of these items is not stated.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not sexualize or exploit children
Under the lead-in about causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, you may not sexualize or exploit children.
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Sexualizing or exploiting children
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not engage in espionage, hacking, fraud, scamming, stalking, doxing, phishing or forgery or misrepresentation
Under the lead-in about causing harm or engaging in abusive activity, you may not engage in espionage, hacking, defrauding, defaming, scamming or spamming; stalking, doxing or phishing; or falsifying, forging, fabricating or materially misrepresenting documents, records, identities, credentials, signatures, endorsements, evidence or other information.
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Engaging in espionage, hacking, defrauding, defaming, scamming, or spamming
Engaging in stalking, doxing, or phishing
Engaging in falsifying, forging, fabricating, or materially misrepresenting documents, records, identities, credentials, signatures, endorsements, evidence, or other information
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not provide services that encourage others to violate the AUP, such as websites selling violative Suggestions
You may not provide services that encourage others to violate the AUP, including by operating websites that offer violative Suggestions from the Service in exchange for payment.
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Providing services that encourage others to violate this AUP, including by operating websites offering violative Suggestions from our Service in exchange for payment
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not take unauthorized actions for others, generate illegal content, or violate export laws
Under the lead-in about not complying with laws or regulations, you may not take unauthorized actions on behalf of others; attempt to generate, access, distribute or make available content that is illegal or prohibited under the applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction; or violate any laws relating to exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries. In the extracted text these items follow the lead-in as a flat list, so the grouping is read from their order.
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Not complying with laws or regulations, including by:
Taking unauthorized actions on behalf of others
Attempting to generate, access, distribute or make available content that is illegal or prohibited under the applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction
Violating any laws relating to exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries
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The source's list nesting is flat; the grouping under the not-complying-with-laws lead-in is inferred from order.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not operate in a regulated industry without complying, such as unlawful securities trading or advice
Under the lead-in about not complying with laws or regulations, you may not operate in a regulated industry without complying with its rules, for example by using the Services to unlawfully buy or sell securities or to provide or receive advice about securities, commodities, derivatives or other financial products or services. Anysphere says it is not a broker-dealer or a registered investment adviser under the securities laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction.
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Not complying with laws or regulations, including by:
Operating in a regulated industry without complying with those regulations, for example, by using the Services to unlawfully buy or sell securities or to provide or receive advice about securities, commodities, derivatives, or other financial products or services, as Anysphere is not a broker-dealer or a registered investment adviser under the securities laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction
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Which regulated industries beyond the securities example are meant is not specified.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not use the Service in a region where Anysphere does not offer it
Under the lead-in about not complying with laws or regulations, you may not operate in a region where Anysphere does not offer the Service.
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Not complying with laws or regulations, including by:
Operating in a region where we do not offer the Service
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Which regions Anysphere does not offer the Service in is not stated in this policy.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not generate, access or distribute content that is illegal or prohibited under the law of the relevant jurisdiction
Among the prohibited uses, you may not attempt to generate, access, distribute or make available content that is illegal or prohibited under the applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction. Whether content is covered therefore depends on the law of the relevant jurisdiction, which the policy does not identify. The same item also appears with the law-compliance lead-in in the earlier card.
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Attempting to generate, access, distribute or make available content that is illegal or prohibited under the applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction
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Which jurisdiction's law applies when a user and the content are in different places is not stated.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not violate laws on exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries
Among the prohibited uses, you may not violate any laws relating to exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries. The policy does not name the laws. The same item also appears with the law-compliance lead-in in the earlier card.
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Violating any laws relating to exporting data or software to and from the United States or other countries
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The specific export laws and any list of restricted countries or parties are not named in this policy.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not use the Service for high-stakes automated decisions about a person's safety, rights or well-being
Among the prohibited uses listed under the comply-with-the-law rule, you may not make high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person's safety, legal or material rights, or well-being, such as financial credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical or other important decisions about or for them.
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Making high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person
safety, legal or material rights, or well-being (such as making financial credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about or for them)
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Whether a decision with human review still counts as “automated” is not stated.
The source's list nesting is flat, so this item is read as one of the prohibited uses under the comply-with-the-law rule.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not mislead others about your use of AI, including phishing, fake accounts or falsely attributing services
Among the prohibited uses, you may not mislead others or fail to be transparent about your use of AI, including by phishing, creating fake accounts, providing services that appear to be from you when they are in fact from Anysphere, or providing services that appear to originate from Anysphere when they do not.
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Misleading others or not being transparent regarding your use of AI, including by phishing, creating fake accounts, providing services that appear to be from you, when they are in fact from Anysphere, or providing services that appear to originate from Anysphere, when they do not
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When disclosure of AI use is required, and in what form, is not specified.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Do not access the Service through bots, scripts or other automated or non-human means
Among the prohibited uses, you may not access the Service through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise. The earlier prohibition on copying and reverse engineering also mentions using bots to access the Service. The policy does not say whether access through an authorized API or Anysphere's own tools counts as automated access.
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Accessing the Service through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise
using bots to access
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Whether access through an authorized API, plug-in or Anysphere's own tools is covered is not stated; the introduction defines the Service to include APIs.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Do not use the Service to harm people or property, including developing bioweapons or weapons of mass destruction
A separate rule says not to harm people or property. It includes using the Service or Suggestions to critically harm, or promote critically harming, human life (yours or anyone else's); take unauthorized actions on behalf of others; develop bioweapons, chemical weapons or weapons of mass destruction; or destroy property. Some of these repeat items listed earlier under other lead-ins; the earlier harm-to-life item also names pro-terrorist activities.
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Do not harm people or property. This prohibition includes things like using our Service or Suggestions to:
Critically harm or promoting critically harming human life (yours or anyone else
Take unauthorized actions on behalf of others
Develop bioweapons, chemical weapons, or weapons of mass destruction
Destroy property
including pro-terrorist activities
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The text says “includes things like”, so the list is not stated to be exhaustive.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Respect guardrails and do not mislead; do not circumvent safeguards without Anysphere's official written consent
A final rule says to respect guardrails and not mislead, and not to circumvent safeguards unless you have Anysphere's official written consent. This gives a consent route for circumventing safeguards that the earlier prohibitions on bypassing protections do not mention.
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Respect guardrails and don't mislead. Don't circumvent safeguards unless you have our official written consent.
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How to request Anysphere's official written consent, and what it covers, is not described.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Anysphere reports suspected child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Anysphere says it reports suspected child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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We report suspected child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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What information accompanies a report, and whether the user is notified, is not stated.