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The prohibition prevents users from leveraging OpenRouter's infrastructure to create commercial offerings that compete with or replicate OpenRouter's own business.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a fragment of a prohibited-use list rather than a standalone sentence. The prohibition is nonetheless explicit on its face.
The updated terms clarify that enabling prompt logging automatically activates chat logging as well, and grant OpenRouter a perpetual, worldwide license to use your content for service provision and commercial purposes. This includes the explicit right to license or sell your user content in anonymized form. Users accessing Stealth Program models must now also agree to a separate End User License Agreement. You can disable prompt logging in your account settings if you do not wish to grant these permissions.
View change record →Readers cannot use OpenRouter's Site or Service to resell Model API access or to build a service that competes with OpenRouter.
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"access the Site or Service for purposes of reselling API access to Models or otherwise developing a competing service— Excerpt from OpenRouter's OpenRouter Terms of Service
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The prohibition prevents users from leveraging OpenRouter's infrastructure to create commercial offerings that compete with or replicate OpenRouter's own business.
Readers cannot use OpenRouter's Site or Service to resell Model API access or to build a service that competes with OpenRouter.
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