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Key Facts · in the document’s own words

What is each party's total cumulative liability to the other capped at?
“EACH PARTY'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO THE OTHER PARTY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED THE FEES PAID OR PAYABLE TO LANGCHAIN UNDER THIS AGREEMENT DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS...”
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Each party's total cumulative liability to the other for any claim arising out of or relating to the Agreement is capped at the fees paid or payable to LangChain during the twelve months preceding the claim.
Who may access and use the LangSmith Platform?
“Only authorized Users are permitted to access and use the LangSmith Platform. Customer is solely responsible for (a) approving and maintaining access, identifying and authenticating Users...”
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LangChain requires that only authorized Users may access and use the LangSmith Platform, and the Customer is solely responsible for approving and maintaining access and for identifying and authenticating Users.
What must the Customer defend LangChain against?
“Customer will defend LangChain from and against any third-party claim to the extent resulting from Customer Data, when used by LangChain as authorized in this Agreement...”
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LangChain requires the Customer to defend LangChain against any third-party claim to the extent that claim results from Customer Data when used by LangChain as authorized in the Agreement.
Who owns Customer Data and Customer Confidential Information?
“As between Customer and LangChain, Customer Data and Customer Confidential Information are and will remain owned exclusively by Customer, the User, or their licensors, as applicable.”
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LangChain establishes that Customer Data and Customer Confidential Information are and will remain owned exclusively by the Customer, the User, or their licensors, as applicable.
What liability will neither party nor its affiliates have under the Agreement?
“IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER PARTY OR ITS AFFILIATES HAVE ANY LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, GOODWILL, OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL...”
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LangChain establishes that neither party nor its affiliates will have any liability under the Agreement for lost profits, revenues, goodwill, or indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages.
What must each party comply with in connection with providing and using the LangSmith Platform?
“Each party will comply with all applicable Export Control and Sanctions Laws and Regulations in connection with providing and using the LangSmith Platform.”
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LangChain requires each party to comply with all applicable Export Control and Sanctions Laws and Regulations in connection with providing and using the LangSmith Platform.
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Summary
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This document sets the rules for using LangChain's LangSmith Platform. LangChain will not use your data to train its AI products, and you keep ownership of your data — but you are responsible for managing who on your team has access. If something goes wrong, neither side can recover more than one year's worth of fees, and neither side can claim lost profits or business losses from the other.

Analysis

This Agreement establishes the terms under which Customers access and use the LangSmith Platform, setting out reciprocal intellectual property protections whereby LangChain retains exclusive ownership of the platform and its confidential information while Customers retain exclusive ownership of Customer Data and Customer Confidential Information. LangChain expressly prohibits using Customer Data to train, develop, or improve its products or large language models, and requires Customers to bear sole responsibility for authorizing and authenticating their Users. Liability is capped bilaterally at fees paid or payable in the twelve months preceding a claim, and consequential, indirect, and lost-profits damages are excluded for both parties. The Agreement imposes mutual export control and sanctions compliance obligations, establishes reciprocal indemnification duties tied to Customer Data use and platform patent infringement respectively, and fixes payment obligations as non-cancelable and non-refundable except where the Agreement expressly provides otherwise.

What this means for you

As a Customer, you retain exclusive ownership of your data, and LangChain is contractually prohibited from using that data to train or improve its AI products, including large language models. You bear sole responsibility for controlling which users are authorized to access the platform, so maintaining accurate user access lists is a direct obligation on you. Your financial recovery against LangChain for any claim is capped at the fees you paid in the preceding twelve months, and fees you have already paid are non-refundable except where the Agreement expressly says otherwise. LangChain may disable your or your users' access based on its reasonable determination that a security risk or adverse impact exists, which could interrupt your use of the platform.

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3 versions captured · Latest change detected by ConductAtlas: May 2026

May 22, 2026

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What changed LangChain updated its Terms of Service to introduce a new deployment option called 'Bring Your Own Cloud Deployment' (BYOC), which allows customers to run the LangSmith Platform within their own cloud infrastructure while LangChain manages it through APIs without direct access to customer data. The company also clarified its Hybrid Deployment definition to specify that customer workloads execute in the customer's environment with traces and run data transmitted to LangChain's cloud, and expanded its commitment not to use customer data for training to explicitly include large language models. Additionally, the warranty disclaimer was revised to state that LangChain does not warrant the platform will be 'accurate' or 'complete' in addition to the existing error-free and uninterrupted guarantees.
Why this matters The updated terms introduce a new deployment model (BYOC) that allows customers to maintain their infrastructure while LangChain manages the platform through cloud APIs without direct access to customer data, providing an alternative to cloud-hosted and hybrid options. The terms now explicitly state that LangChain will not use customer data to train large language models, expanding the prior commitment beyond general product improvement. The warranty disclaimer has been revised to state that LangChain does not warrant the platform will be accurate or complete, in addition to existing disclaimers about error-free operation and uninterrupted service.
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This version captured June 4, 2026 01:29 UTC
Last successful capture October 15, 2026 01:10 UTC
Date stated by the document June 2, 2026 (as printed in this version)
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Document ID CA-D-000804
Version ID CA-V-003420
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