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These Terms govern your use of OpenRouter's AI model service and contain several provisions that significantly affect your rights. OpenRouter can end your access at any time without notice, and if you opt in to prompt logging, you give OpenRouter a permanent, irrevocable right to use your content for its own commercial purposes. All disputes must go through binding arbitration — you cannot sue OpenRouter in court or join a class action, and the most money you can ever recover from OpenRouter is capped at what you paid them in the past year or $100, whichever is higher.
OpenRouter's Terms of Service establish the conditions under which users may access its AI model routing service, including strict financial limitations, intellectual property grants, and access controls. The document caps OpenRouter's aggregate liability at the greater of amounts paid in the prior 12 months or $100, excludes warranties for high-risk or regulated use cases, and mandates binding arbitration with a class-action waiver for all disputes. Users who opt in to prompt logging grant OpenRouter a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use and distribute that content for commercial purposes, while a baseline service-operation license applies to all User Content regardless of logging preference. OpenRouter retains sole discretion to suspend or terminate accounts at any time, for any or no reason, and may restrict model access based on reasonably anticipated violations of Model Terms.
As an OpenRouter user, your financial recovery for any claim is capped at the greater of your last 12 months of payments or $100, and cryptocurrency payments are never refundable under any circumstances. If you pay by other means, you have only 24 hours from the time of your transaction to request a refund for unused Credits — missing that window eliminates your refund right entirely. If you have opted in to prompt logging, OpenRouter holds a perpetual and irrevocable commercial license to your submitted content; if you have not yet opted in, you can avoid triggering that license by keeping prompt logging disabled.
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3 important changes detected
20 versions captured · Latest change detected by ConductAtlas: September 2026
OpenRouter restructured its User Content section to clarify how it handles user inputs and outputs. The updated terms now explicitly state that when users opt into prompt logging, OpenRouter gains …
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