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OpenAI · OpenAI Enterprise Privacy · View original document ↗

API fine-tuned models exclusive to customer use

High confidence Common · 250 of 343 platforms

Key Facts · in the document’s own words

Who does OpenAI reserve fine-tuned models exclusively for?
“Your fine-tuned models are for your use alone and never served to or shared with other customers or used to train other models.”
Version CA-V-005281, captured July 26, 2026 · live source ↗
Our reading, not the document’s words
OpenAI reserves fine-tuned models exclusively for the customer who created them and does not serve, share, or use them to train other models.
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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

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The clause establishes that fine-tuned models carry a hard exclusivity guarantee, preventing customer data from benefiting competing customers or OpenAI's broader model training.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

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Your fine-tuned models remain exclusively yours and cannot be accessed by other customers or incorporated into OpenAI's model training.

How other platforms handle this

Anyscale

Anyscale may use Customer's name, trademarks, and logos...on Anyscale's website and in its marketing materials to identify Customer as Anyscale's customer...provided that Anyscale will use commercially reasonable efforts to adhere to the usage guidelines furnished by Customer...

Zoom

You grant Zoom permission and the right to (i) identify you as a customer and to use your logo across Zoom marketing materials (e.g., the Zoom Website, emails, presentations, brochures)...

Kling AI

The Company may use and disclose Feedback in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever without further notice or compensation to you and without retention by you of any proprietary or other right or claim.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Your fine-tuned models are for your use alone and never served to or shared with other customers or used to train other models.

Excerpt from OpenAI's Enterprise Privacy

Provision details

Document information
Document
OpenAI Enterprise Privacy
Entity
OpenAI
Tracking information
First captured by ConductAtlas
May 12, 2026
Text quoted from version
CA-V-005281, captured July 26, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-062743
Document ID
CA-D-000825
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Extracted-text SHA-256 (version CA-V-005281)
0c25699bc3c20c13ead95ab1bc1fc06c9552397328b9ef2365fddd4c635e98ef
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 04:24 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Excerpt found in version CA-V-005281, captured July 26, 2026 (checked Oct. 5, 2026)
Citation Record
Entity: OpenAI
Document: OpenAI Enterprise Privacy
Record ID: CA-P-062743
Version: CA-V-005281
Captured: 2026-07-26 00:06:29 UTC
SHA-256: 0c25699bc3c20c13…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/openai/openai-enterprise-privacy/provision/CA-P-062743/api-fine-tuned-models-exclusive-to-customer-use/
Accessed: Oct. 18, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does OpenAI's API fine-tuned models exclusive to customer use clause do?

The clause establishes that fine-tuned models carry a hard exclusivity guarantee, preventing customer data from benefiting competing customers or OpenAI's broader model training.

How does this clause affect you?

Your fine-tuned models remain exclusively yours and cannot be accessed by other customers or incorporated into OpenAI's model training.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 250 platforms. See the full comparison.

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