5 Documents
16 All provisions 5 High severity 8 Medium severity 3 Low severity
21 Changes · 12 mo
Jun 28, 2026 Last change

High — provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium — provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low — standard terms with minimal consumer impact.

Governance Coverage
Platform Discretion
9 provisions · 2 high · 4 med
Liability Limitation
4 provisions · 1 high · 3 med
Acceptable Use
3 provisions · 1 high · 2 med
Content Moderation
2 provisions · 2 high
Legal Jurisdiction
1 provision · 1 med
Payment Fees
1 provision · 1 high
Key Governance Provisions
High Acceptable Use Policy and Prohibited Conduct

This provision places affirmative compliance obligations on the deploying organization rather than on DeepSeek, meaning that legal responsibility for lawful and non-harmful use of the model's outputs…

High Anti-Distillation Clause

This provision directly limits how AI developers and researchers can use the model's outputs, specifically barring a common practice of using outputs from one model to improve or train another, which…

High Prohibited Uses (Safety and Legal Restrictions)

The prohibited use clause establishes absolute restrictions on harmful applications of the model. The incorporation of an external Acceptable Use Policy by reference means the full scope of restricti…

High Prohibition on Developing Competing AI Models

This clause prohibits using DeepSeek-V3 or any of its generated outputs as a basis for training or developing external AI models. This restriction goes beyond standard open-source licensing and could…

High Commercial Use Threshold (100M MAU)

This clause creates a hard commercial licensing gate tied to platform scale. Any organization that crosses the 100 million MAU threshold without a separate agreement is operating outside the terms of…

Document Coverage
Acceptableusepolicy Privacypolicy Termsofservice
Last change detected: Jun 28, 2026 Changes (12 months): 21 Documents monitored: 5 Provisions tracked: 16
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Documents

DeepSeek Model License

Medium

The DeepSeek Model License establishes the terms governing use of the DeepSeek-R1 model, permitting research and commercial deployment while imposing restrictions on model output use and redistribution. The license prohibits …

Last updated May 12, 2026 · Terms of service
8 provisions 22 versions captured Version history →

DeepSeek Acceptable Use Policy

Low

The submitted document is not DeepSeek's Acceptable Use Policy but rather an AWS WAF CAPTCHA security verification page that was served in place of the policy content. The actual policy …

Last updated May 12, 2026 · Acceptable use policy
0 provisions 1 version captured Version history →

DeepSeek Open Source License

High

This document establishes the open source license governing DeepSeek-V3, specifying permitted uses, restrictions, and conditions for download, modification, and distribution of the model. The license prohibits commercial use by any …

Last updated May 11, 2026 · Terms of service
8 provisions 1 version captured Version history →

DeepSeek Privacy Policy

Low

The submitted document is a security verification screen rather than DeepSeek's privacy policy. The page implements automated bot-detection challenge functionality that prevents access to the underlying policy content. The actual …

Last updated May 5, 2026 · Privacy policy
0 provisions 1 version captured Version history →

DeepSeek Terms of Use

Low

The DeepSeek Terms of Use document could not be retrieved due to a security verification page returned by AWS WAF at the submitted URL. No terms, conditions, or operational provisions …

Last updated May 5, 2026 · Terms of service
0 provisions 1 version captured Version history →
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Medium Severity Provisions (2)

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Applicable Regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
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California AB 2013 AI Training Data Transparency
US-CA
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CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
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Colorado AI Act
US-CO
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CFAA
United States Federal
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Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
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ePrivacy Directive
European Union
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EU AI Act - High Risk Provisions
EU
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FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
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GDPR
European Union
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Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
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Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
US-KY
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Texas AI Act
Texas, USA
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Trump Executive Order on AI Policy Framework
US
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Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US
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