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| 2 | Last updated: August 5, 2026 These Meta Model API Terms of Service (“ Terms ”) are an agreement between you and Meta Platforms, Inc. or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (if you are located in the European Region as defined here ) (“ Meta ”, “ we ” or “ us ”). | 2 | Last updated: August 28, 2026 These Meta Model API Terms of Service (“ Terms ”) are an agreement between you and Meta Platforms, Inc. or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (if you are located in the European Region as defined here ) (“ Meta ”, “ we ” or “ us ”). |
| 13 | The Services are intended for your commercial use, except where Meta expressly makes the Services available for personal or consumer use, including through a consumer subscription. | ||
| 28 | Managed Accounts, Meta Accounts, and Meta Model API Keys. | 29 | Accounts, API Keys and Subscriptions. 3.1 Accounts and Keys . |
| 37 | You may not share your Meta Model API key with any third party without our prior written permission. | 38 | You may not share, sell, or transfer your Meta Model API key with any third party without our prior written permission. |
| 38 | Upon termination of your Account or right to use the Services, you must immediately delete all Meta Model API keys provided to you. 4. | 39 | Upon termination of your Account or right to use the Services, you must immediately delete all Meta Model API keys provided to you. 3.2 Subscriptions and Keys . |
| 40 | Notwithstanding the foregoing, Meta may offer a subscription that provides access to the Services through an artificial intelligence coding harness (a " Coding Harness Subscription "). | ||
| 41 | Your purchase of a Coding Harness Subscription, and the subscription relationship it creates, are governed by the Meta Subscription Terms of Service . | ||
| 42 | These Terms govern your access to and use of the Services and, to the extent of any conflict, prevail with respect to that access and use. | ||
| 43 | Access to the Services under a Coding Harness Subscription is enabled by a Meta Model API key or other credential that Meta connects for use with the coding harness. | ||
| 44 | That key or credential is for use only with the coding harness under your Coding Harness Subscription, is subject to the restrictions on Meta Model API keys in Section 3.1, and may not be used to access the Services outside the coding harness or to circumvent your subscription's usage limits or billing. 4. | ||
| 41 | You are responsible for the accuracy and validity of your information, data, or other content, such as your text, documents, libraries, code, databases, images, videos, or recordings that you provide to the Services including those that you may authorize the Services to access, including through connectors or integrations or as context or background for your specific prompts or instructions (“ Inputs ”). | 47 | You are responsible for the accuracy and validity of any information, data, or other content you provide to the Services, in any form or format, including but not limited to text, documents, libraries, code, databases, images, audio, videos, or recordings (collectively, "Inputs" ). |
| 48 | Inputs also include content you authorize the Services to access, whether through connectors or integrations or as context or background for your prompts or instructions. | ||
| 90 | You agree that you will not do any of the following in connection with use of the Services, unless applicable laws or regulations prohibit these restrictions (and then only after advance notice to Meta) or unless expressly permitted by Meta: (i) access or use the Services on behalf of any third party, or grant access to the Services (including any related Meta Model API key) to any third party other than allowing End Users to interface with the Meta Materials through use of your Integrated Products; (ii) extract any data from the Services except to the extent expressly permitted by these Terms; (iii) remove, modify, or obscure any proprietary or other notices contained in the Services; (iv) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services or any related systems or networks; (v) access, use, or make the Services, Outputs, Actions, or Integrated Products available in any country or geographic area not permitted by the Meta Model API Model Designation and Geographic Use Policy ; (vi) access or use the Services, Outputs, Actions, or Integrated Products, or allow others to access or use the Services, Outputs, Actions, or Integrated Products, in any manner prohibited by the Model API AUP; (vii) access or use the Services, Outputs, Actions, or Integrated Products to engage in or facilitate any action, or generate any content, that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any third-party rights, including through the outputs or results of any products or services; (viii) misappropriate Meta's models, harnesses, code, resources, or intellectual property; (ix) use or facilitate the use of the Services (including by taking Actions), or the Outputs of the Services, to train, fine-tune, distill, or otherwise improve or create any artificial intelligence or machine learning model or other product or service that competes with Meta’s models or services, or systematically collect Outputs or other data to build training datasets for use in developing competing models or services, without Meta's prior written authorization. | 97 | You agree that you will not do any of the following in connection with use of the Services, unless applicable laws or regulations prohibit these restrictions (and then only after advance notice to Meta) or unless expressly permitted by Meta: (i) access or use the Services on behalf of any third party, or grant access to the Services (including any related Meta Model API key) to any third party other than allowing End Users to interface with the Meta Materials through use of your Integrated Products. |
| 91 | For the avoidance of doubt, using Services or Outputs solely for evaluation, benchmarking, or quality assessment of your own systems does not constitute a prohibited use under this Section; (x) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt or assist others to derive the underlying models, harnesses, algorithms, weights, systems, or source code of the Services, including through systematic querying, model extraction techniques, reverse engineering, probing of inputs and outputs, or any other method designed to reconstruct or approximate the proprietary components of the Services; (xi) publicly disseminate performance benchmarks or evaluations of the Services for the purpose of promoting or marketing a competing product or service, without Meta's prior written authorization; (xii) circumvent, violate, hack, disable, or evade rate limits, usage quotas, content filters, access controls, or other technical safeguards or restrictions applied to the Services; (xiii) consume computational resources in a manner that is excessive relative to your authorized use, that degrades the Services for others, or that is inconsistent with legitimate end-user application use; (xiv) copy or create any derivative works of any Downloadable Materials, sell, lease, publicly, display, publicly perform, redistribute, sublicense, or otherwise make available any Downloadable Materials to any third party, or modify any Downloadable Materials, including any modification enabling any Downloadable Materials to operate with any model or service not provided by Meta; or (xv) use or redistribute the Services or any portion thereof in any manner that would cause the Services (or any portion thereof) or Meta to become subject to the terms of any open source license or other restrictions. 10.2 Notification of breach . | 98 | For the avoidance of doubt, you may not resell, or otherwise provide access to the Services (including the Meta Models or any Meta Model API key) to any third party on a standalone basis, or through any model aggregator, API gateway, proxy, or similar offering, in each case except as expressly authorized by Meta in writing; (ii) extract any data from the Services except to the extent expressly permitted by these Terms; (iii) remove, modify, or obscure any proprietary or other notices contained in the Services; (iv) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services or any related systems or networks; (v) access, use, or make the Services, Outputs, Actions, or Integrated Products available in any country or geographic area not permitted by the Meta Model API Model Designation and Geographic Use Policy ; (vi) access or use the Services, Outputs, Actions, or Integrated Products, or allow others to access or use the Services, Outputs, Actions, or Integrated Products, in any manner prohibited by the Model API AUP; (vii) access or use the Services, Outputs, Actions, or Integrated Products to engage in or facilitate any action, or generate any content, that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any third-party rights, including through the outputs or results of any products or services; (viii) misappropriate Meta's models, harnesses, code, resources, or intellectual property; (ix) use or facilitate the use of the Services (including by taking Actions), or the Outputs of the Services, to train, fine-tune, distill, or otherwise improve or create any artificial intelligence or machine learning model or other product or service that competes with Meta’s models or services, or systematically collect Outputs or other data to build training datasets for use in developing competing models or services, without Meta's prior written authorization. |
| 99 | For the avoidance of doubt, using Services or Outputs solely for evaluation, benchmarking, or quality assessment of your own systems does not constitute a prohibited use under this Section; (x) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt or assist others to derive the underlying models, harnesses, algorithms, weights, systems, or source code of the Services, including through systematic querying, model extraction techniques, reverse engineering, probing of inputs and outputs, or any other method designed to reconstruct or approximate the proprietary components of the Services; (xi) publicly disseminate performance benchmarks or evaluations of the Services for the purpose of promoting or marketing a competing product or service, without Meta's prior written authorization; (xii) circumvent, violate, hack, disable, or evade rate limits, usage quotas, content filters, access controls, or other technical safeguards or restrictions applied to the Services; (xiii) consume computational resources in a manner that is excessive relative to your authorized use, that degrades the Services for others, or that is inconsistent with legitimate end-user application use; (xiv) copy or create any derivative works of any Downloadable Materials, sell, lease, publicly display, publicly perform, redistribute, sublicense, or otherwise make available any Downloadable Materials to any third party, or modify any Downloadable Materials, including any modification enabling any Downloadable Materials to operate with any model or service not provided by Meta; or (xv) use or redistribute the Services or any portion thereof in any manner that would cause the Services (or any portion thereof) or Meta to become subject to the terms of any open source license or other restrictions. 10.2 Notification of breach . | ||
| 104 | If you are using Standard Services, you are responsible for paying all fees arising from your use of the Services (“ Services Fees ”) and any applicable national, state, or local sales or use taxes, value added taxes, or similar taxes (“ Transaction Taxes ”). | 112 | If you are using Services, you are responsible for paying all fees arising from your use of the Services (“ Services Fees ”) and any applicable national, state, or local sales or use taxes, value added taxes, or similar taxes (“ Transaction Taxes ”). |
| 108 | You must pay all Services Fees and applicable Taxes when due. | 116 | Except as provided in Section 13.4, you must pay all Services Fees and applicable Taxes when due. |
| 117 | Meta or a Meta affiliate entity will charge, invoice, and otherwise allow you to pay for the Services as described below. | 125 | Depending on the country in which you are located: (a) invoicing and payment for your access to the Services may be through one or more affiliates of Meta (each, a "Meta Affiliate" ), (b) you may contract directly with the applicable Meta Affiliate solely for purposes of such payment transaction, and (c) you may be subject to other special provisions as may be incorporated by reference herein. |
| 138 | Unless Meta expressly states otherwise in your Accounts or in these Terms, use of the Services through promotional credits will be treated as Discounted Services. | — | Removed |
| 140 | Unused promotional credits may expire within a set period of time as stated in your Account or otherwise indicated in the Supplemental Managed Account Terms, and cannot be reinstated. 14. | 147 | Unused promotional credits may expire within a set period of time as stated in your Account or otherwise indicated in the Supplemental Managed Account Terms, and cannot be reinstated. 13.4 Coding Harness Subscriptions . |
| 148 | You may access the Services (i) by paying the Services Fees described in this Section 13, (ii) through a Coding Harness Subscription as described in Section 3.2 and the Meta Subscription Terms of Service , or (iii) both. | ||
| 149 | For your use of the Services through a Coding Harness Subscription, the applicable fees are governed by the plan you select under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service , and the Services Fees and other provisions in this Section 13 do not apply to that use. | ||
| 150 | Use of the Services through a Coding Harness Subscription is subject to a recurring per-period allowance, which expires at the end of each period and does not roll over or accumulate. | ||
| 151 | Such usage does not qualify as "Additional AI Usage" as that term is defined in the Meta Subscription Terms of Service . | ||
| 152 | A Coding Harness Subscription does not provide any discount, fee reduction, or increased per-period allowance based on the Models you select, including Discounted Models. | ||
| 153 | The Models you select determine how Meta may use your Content, as described in Sections 5 and 6. | ||
| 154 | Any use of the Services that is not covered by a Coding Harness Subscription is subject to the Services Fees and other provisions of this Section 13. 14. | ||
| 151 | Upon termination of these Terms for any reason: (i) you must immediately cease using the Services and destroy or return any cached or stored content, software, or other materials containing any Downloadable Materials; (ii) you may continue to use any Integrated Products you have created provided that those Integrated Products do not contain any Downloadable Materials and that you continue to comply with the obligations in these Terms that apply to your use of Integrated Products; and (iii) the following Sections will survive: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Exhibit A , and Exhibit B. 15.5 Modification . | 165 | Upon termination of these Terms for any reason: (i) you must immediately cease using the Services and destroy or return any cached or stored content, software, or other materials containing any Downloadable Materials; (ii) you may continue to use any Integrated Products you have created provided that those Integrated Products do not contain any Downloadable Materials and that you continue to comply with the obligations in these Terms that apply to your use of Integrated Products; and (iii) the following Sections will survive: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Exhibit A, and Exhibit B. 15.5 Modification . |
| 175 | Any claims, causes of action or disputes that arise out of or relate to these Terms or the Services between you and Meta (“ Claims ”) will be governed by the terms set forth on** ** Exhibit A . 20. | 189 | Any claims, causes of action or disputes that arise out of or relate to these Terms or the Services between you and Meta (“ Claims ”) will be governed by the terms set forth on Exhibit A. |
| 190 | If you access the Services through a Coding Harness Subscription, then notwithstanding any conflicting dispute-resolution provisions in any other terms, this Section 19 and Exhibit A (and Exhibit B, where applicable) govern Claims to the extent they relate to your access to or use of the Services, including any Claim that relates to both your access to or use of the Services and your Coding Harness Subscription. | ||
| 191 | Any Claim that concerns only your purchase of the Coding Harness Subscription, or only the subscription relationship it creates, is governed by the dispute-resolution provisions of the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. 20. | ||
| 220 | Without prejudice to the foregoing, you agree that, in our sole discretion, we may also bring any Claim we have against you related to efforts to abuse, interfere, or engage with our Services in unauthorized ways in the country in which you reside that has jurisdiction over the Claim. | 236 | Without prejudice to the foregoing, you agree that, in our sole discretion, we may also bring any Claim we have against you related to efforts to abuse, interfere, or engage with our Services in unauthorized ways in the country in which you reside that has jurisdiction over the Claim. 3. |
| 237 | Disputes in the EU/UK . | ||
| 238 | Nothing in this Exhibit A shall limit or restrict any rights and remedies you have under Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 (the “ Digital Markets Act” or “ DMA ”) or, if you are a Consumer (as defined in Exhibit B), your statutory rights, the governing law, or right to commence litigation in your country of residence. | ||
| 239 | Without prejudice to any other rights and remedies you may have under these Terms and applicable laws, if you are a “business user” of our online social networking core platform service(s), please see the alternative dispute settlement mechanism offered subject to Article 6(12) of the DMA. “Business user” is defined under Article 2 paragraph (21) of the DMA. | ||
| 260 | Meta © 2026 Terms of Service Acceptable Use Policy | 279 | Terms of Service Acceptable Use Policy |
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