DeepL Terms and Conditions

This is DeepL's terms of service for its Pro subscription and API translation services, covering what you can and cannot do when paying for DeepL's AI translation tools. The most important thing to know is that your subscription auto-renews automatically — if you do not cancel before your renewal date, you will be charged again for the next billing cycle. You should check your renewal date in your account settings and cancel before it passes if you do not want to continue paying.

This document governs access to and use of DeepL Pro subscription services, including the DeepL API, under a contract formed between the user and DeepL SE (a German corporation), with German law as the governing law and Cologne courts as the exclusive jurisdiction. The most significant obligations include users' duty to keep login credentials secure and not share accounts, DeepL's right to modify or terminate services with varying notice periods, and users' obligation to pay subscription fees that auto-renew unless cancelled within specified windows. Notably, the document contains a broad intellectual property licence from users to DeepL to process submitted content, a provision permitting DeepL to use anonymised translation data for service improvement, and a liability cap limiting DeepL's damages exposure in ways that may conflict with mandatory consumer protection laws in certain EU jurisdictions. The document engages GDPR (as a German/EU-based processor handling user content), German Telemedia Act (TMG), and EU consumer protection directives including the Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU, with DeepL explicitly carving out statutory consumer rights under applicable law. Material compliance considerations include the data processing terms embedded in or referenced by the ToS, the interaction between German governing law and mandatory local consumer protections for non-German EU users, and obligations for business users deploying DeepL API in downstream products.