Draft v0.1 · not legal advice

Terms of Service

Two modes, one gateway. What you may do, what we do not promise, and what is still unfinished.

Draft — not legal advice. No binding agreement exists yet: the operating entity, jurisdiction, effective date, billing provider and contact address are undecided, and payments are not live. A qualified lawyer must review this before launch.

1. Status of these terms

These terms describe the current reference implementation of tokencoup so integrators can build against it. They are informational, not a contract. Do not rely on them for production or commercial use.

2. The service

tokencoup provides (a) a static directory of open-source AI agents indexed from GitHub, and (b) a gateway that forwards OpenAI-compatible requests to Baidu Qianfan under two modes: Mode A (you bring your own Qianfan key) and Mode B (metered access to tokencoup's international key pool).

The gateway does not rewrite request bodies. Model availability, model behaviour and upstream errors are Qianfan's. See the API reference.

3. Eligibility and accounts

Access is by gateway API key (X-Gateway-Key). A self-service account and sign-in are not live. You must be legally able to enter a contract and must have the right to use any Qianfan key you supply.

Keep your gateway key private. It is shown only once, stored only as a hash, and can be revoked. You remain responsible for all calls made with it.

4. Mode A — bring your own key

You supply a Qianfan key via Authorization: Bearer … or X-Provider-Key. It is forwarded to the upstream and is not stored by tokencoup. You are responsible for that key's provenance, quota, cost, and compliance with the Qianfan terms that apply to it.

C2 / S3 is permanently prohibited. A domestic Qianfan key on the international endpoint — or an international key on the domestic endpoint — is rejected at the gateway with 403 key_edition_mismatch. Circumventing this check is a violation of these terms.

5. Mode B — metered resale

Mode B needs no provider key. Usage is billed per token on successful (200) responses against your subscription quota; exhausting it returns 402 quota_exceeded. Overage is priced in gateway/plans.py. Failed requests do not consume quota.

The international key pool is not connected yet; Mode B currently returns 503 resale_pool_empty. The TOKENCOUP_SIM_INTL switch is development-only and must never be used in production.

6. Pricing and payment

Plan prices, token quotas and rate limits shown on the Pricing page are injected from gateway/plans.py, the same values the gateway enforces. Billing is in USD. Payment processing, invoicing, VAT handling, refunds and dispute procedures are not implemented and no charges are made today.

EU customers will require VAT handling and a lawful billing entity before paid plans can be offered.

7. Acceptable use

You must not:

Use the service for unlawful content, harassment, malware, or infringement of third-party rights.
Attempt to bypass key-edition validation, rate limits or quota checks.
Resell, share, publish or transfer your gateway key.
Resell access to a Mode A key that you do not have the right to redistribute.
Probe, scrape or overload the gateway, or misrepresent the origin of requests.
Use the directory listings in violation of the upstream repositories' own licences.

We may suspend or revoke a key for violations, abuse, or to comply with law.

8. Intellectual property

Directory entries describe third-party open-source projects; each remains under its own licence and tokencoup claims no ownership over them. tokencoup's own code, documentation and branding are separate. No licence grant is implied by these draft terms.

9. Availability and warranty

Pre-launch, provided as-is. The reference server runs locally in mock mode by default, the production endpoint is not live, upstream base URLs are marked TODO, and only stream: false is supported. There is no SLA, no uptime commitment and no warranty of fitness for any purpose.

10. Liability, termination and changes

To the extent permitted by law, tokencoup is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data, or upstream outages and model output. Either party may stop using the service at any time. Terms will be replaced by a reviewed version before launch; material changes will be announced.

11. Governing law and contact

Governing law, jurisdiction, dispute resolution and the operating entity are undecided. The C2 plan recommends an offshore entity (for example Singapore) for the international business, separated from a mainland-China entity for the domestic edition. See the Cross-border notice.

Contact: to be designated. A legal notice address will be published with the final terms.