Cohere gives you a limited right to use its AI services for your own internal business needs, but you cannot transfer, resell, or sublicense that access to others.
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The license is explicitly scoped to internal business use only, which means customers building downstream products or reselling API access to end users may require separate contractual authorization from Cohere.
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The agreement states the license is non-transferable and non-sublicensable, which means enterprise customers cannot pass API access rights to third parties or embed them in products for resale without separate agreement terms authorizing that use.
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"Subject to Customer's compliance with this Agreement, Cohere grants Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the Services during the Term solely for Customer's internal business purposes.Excerpt from Cohere's SaaS Agreement
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The license is explicitly scoped to internal business use only, which means customers building downstream products or reselling API access to end users may require separate contractual authorization from Cohere.
The agreement states the license is non-transferable and non-sublicensable, which means enterprise customers cannot pass API access rights to third parties or embed them in products for resale without separate agreement terms authorizing that use.
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