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Prohibition on Competing Product Development

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This restricts competitive uses of the platform and prevents public disclosure of performance data, limiting the Customer's ability to evaluate or publicize how the platform performs relative to alternatives.

Interpretive note: The excerpt appears to be drawn from a list of prohibited uses; additional prohibited uses not shown in this excerpt are not reflected in the canonical claim.

Recent Activity

This document changed recently

Medium May 22, 2026

The updated terms introduce a new deployment architecture option (BYOC) alongside existing Cloud and Hybrid options, giving customers more control over infrastructure placement. LangChain's explicit commitment to not use customer data for large language model training now has clear written language in the Terms, whereas the prior version only referenced 'products' generically. However, the expanded non-warranty clause now states the platform is not warranted to be 'accurate' or 'complete,' which broadens the disclaimers of liability. Customers should review which deployment option aligns with their infrastructure and compliance requirements.

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Consumer impact (what this means for users)

You are prohibited from using the platform to build a competing product and from publicly sharing any benchmarks, performance results, or comparative information about the platform.

How other platforms handle this

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use our services to build a similar service, identify or poach our users or publish any performance or benchmark analysis relating to the site reverse engineer, decipher, modify, or take source code from our site...

NVIDIA NIM Medium

Customer may not indicate that a product or service developed with the Software is sponsored or endorsed by NVIDIA unless expressly authorized in writing by NVIDIA.

Glassdoor Medium

Send messages in violation of the USA CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable anti-spam law.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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use the LangSmith Platform to develop a similar or competing product or service, or to publish or disclose benchmarks, performance results, or comparative information regarding the LangSmith Platform

— Excerpt from LangChain's LangChain Terms of Service

Applicable regulations

Trump Executive Order on AI Policy Framework
US

Provision details

Document information
Document
LangChain Terms of Service
Entity
LangChain
Document last updated
May 12, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-063591
Document ID
CA-D-00804
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
746536421de2b228192ab3641f2d2338717f2e08809c05631b58e42d4efcf096
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 03:53 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: LangChain
Document: LangChain Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-063591
Captured: 2026-07-09 03:53:59 UTC
SHA-256: 746536421de2b228…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/langchain/langchain-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-063591/prohibition-on-competing-product-development/
Accessed: July 13, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does LangChain's Prohibition on Competing Product Development clause do?

This restricts competitive uses of the platform and prevents public disclosure of performance data, limiting the Customer's ability to evaluate or publicize how the platform performs relative to alternatives.

How does this clause affect you?

You are prohibited from using the platform to build a competing product and from publicly sharing any benchmarks, performance results, or comparative information about the platform.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 285 platforms. See the full comparison.

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