Incident #E11482 · 09 MAY 2026notable
OpenRouter makes you answer for model providers' terms and adds provider-linked suspension and third-party clauses
OpenRouter added a new Model Terms section. You must follow each model provider's terms, which can change at any time, and you are responsible for your Authorized Users' and customers' violations. OpenRouter may suspend your access at a provider's request, may ask you for compliance information, and names providers as third-party beneficiaries. It also adds a general license to your content for running the Service, shared-content rules and a non-OpenRouter services section. The prompt-logging license, the red-teaming ban, the resale ban and the arbitration fallback were already in the old terms.
Taken from you
- Responsibility for compliance of your Authorized Users and customers with every model provider's terms, which may change at any time
- Must supply information or certifications on request to show Model Terms compliance, or risk restricted access
- OpenRouter disclaims warranties on model providers' data handling, training, retention and security
- Model providers become intended third-party beneficiaries of several sections
- No refund or compensation if integrations with non-OpenRouter services are discontinued
Won back
- Clearer disclosure of which terms govern the relationship with OpenRouter versus model providers
Evidence · 4 of 4 quotes matched in source
you grant OpenRouter a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid right and license (with the right to sublicense) to host, store, transfer, display, perform, reproduce+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
OpenRouter may suspend, restrict, disable, or terminate your, any of your Authorized User's, and your customers' access to any Model if we reasonably believe that you, one of your Authorized Users+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
conduct, or work with any third parties to conduct, without OpenRouter's prior written approval, any Red Teaming of Models.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
access the Site or Service for purposes of reselling API access to Models or otherwise developing a competing service;+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
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