Terms of Use Yandex AI Studio

This document contains specific Terms of Use of Yandex AI Studio (“the Service” “Terms of Use”) and is an integral part of Yandex.Cloud Customer Agreement (”Agreement”) and Service Terms set forth at This document contains specific Terms of Use of Yandex AI Studio (“the Service” “Terms of Use”) and is an integral part of Yandex.Cloud Customer Agreement (”Agreement”) and Service Terms set forth at https://yandex.com/legal/cloud_service_terms. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Agreement and Linked Documents.. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Agreement and Linked Documents.

1. Functional Features of the Service

1.1. The Service provides the Сustomer with the feature to receive the Generated Content based on a Request.

A full description of the functional features of the Service is contained in the Instructions for using the Service posted on the Site.

1.2. As part of the Service, the following features are provided to the Customer:

1.2.1. Make Requests for obtaining the Generated Content;

1.2.2. Embed text and image generation technologies into the Customer’s final product;

1.2.3. other features of the Service that Yandex, at its discretion, makes available to the Customer. The list of functional features is available to Customer on the Site and/or in the Management Console.

1.3. The Service Level of the Service is determined for the Service in accordance with SLA.

2. Tariffication of the Service

2.1. The use of the Service is chargeable.

2.2. The amount of the Service Fee is determined as per Service Rates and billing units specified on Site. Yandex may change Service Rates as stipulated by Agreement.

2.3. The amount of the Service Fee depends on the type of Requests and the volume of use of the Service.

2.4. Yandex may from time to time provide the Customer with additional functional features of the Service for an additional fee.

2.5. As part of the Service, the Customer may be offered special prices and discounts to be published on Site and/or in the Management Console (if applicable).

2.6. The Customer acknowledges that only Statistics shall be used for the purpose of performing the Agreement and the Terms of Use of Yandex AI Studio, in particular, in order to determine the number of Requests, the amount of remuneration, as well as the date of granting access to the Service and its duration.

3. Additional Terms of Use of the Service

3.1 Yandex does not warrant the generation of a response to the Request and/or the display of the Generated Content in the Service, as well as the accuracy, reliability, correctness of the Generated Content.

3.2. Yandex shall not be responsible for the content contained in the Generated Content. The generation of content is performed in a fully automatic mode; Yandex does not perform (and does not have the technical ability to perform) the verification of correctness of the created answer, as well as all publicly available information that forms the grounds for training the artificial intelligence model.

3.3. The Customer shall independently verify the Generated Content for accuracy, reliability, relevance and legality prior to the use of the Generated Content for its own purposes and/or its further distribution.

3.4. The content of the Generated Content does not represent the opinion of Yandex, the Service and its employees and cannot be considered as guidance or advice when making decisions or performing any actions.

3.5. The Customer shall be solely responsible for the compliance of the Request with the applicable law and also assume all risks, including those associated with the violation of rights of third parties, when using the Generated Content.

3.6. The Service may be used for reference and informational purposes and is not intended for use in order to establish legally significant facts, to confirm or refute them or to obtain professional advice and expert opinion.

3.7. The operation of the Service does not imply in each specific case the possibility of accurately identifying the source of information used for the purposes of training the artificial intelligence model on which the operation of the Service is based.

3.8. Yandex may at any time change the Terms and introduce other restrictions and prohibitions on the use of the Service or additional obligations for the Customer, including the obligation to indicate the use of the Service when creating the Generated Content.

3.9. The Generated Content is created using artificial intelligence technologies. Therefore, the Generated Content may not be unique, but coincide in whole or in part with the Generated Content created (generated) upon Requests of other Users.

3.10. The Customer shall assume all risks, including those associated with the violation of exclusive rights of third parties when using the Generated Content for its own purposes.

3.11. When using the Service, it is prohibited to:

3.11.1. use the Service for purposes contrary to the requirements of the applicable law and the provisions of the Terms of Use;

3.11.2. send Requests or otherwise circumvent any restrictions of the Service to obtain information containing:

  • illegal and/or prohibited information;

  • information containing advice on circumventing the applicable law, orders and instructions for violating the rights of third parties;

  • information being unethical or offensive to individuals or categories of individuals;

  • information inciting ethnic hatred, promoting hatred and/or discrimination against people on racial, ethnic, gender, religious, social and other grounds, discrediting the honor, dignity and/or business reputation of third parties;

  • pornographic materials, including those involving minors;

  • information violating privacy rights and other restricted information, including trade secrets, bank secrecy, tax secrecy, family medical secrets, confidentiality of correspondence, etc.;

  • information violating copyrights, trademarks, means of individualization and/or rights to other intellectual property belonging to third parties;

3.11.3. disrupt the normal operation of the Service, including the circumvention of the established limits and quotas on the use of the Service, restrictions on the generation of individual content, the sending of automatic requests and the performance of other actions that may lead to functional failures and the violation of rights and interests of Yandex and third parties;

3.11.4. use the Generated Content for dishonest purposes (in particular, to mislead third parties and present the Generated Content as the result of human labor) in cases where the use of artificial intelligence technologies is not implied or directly prohibited;

3.11.5. use logos, means of individualization, interface design, other intellectual property objects of Yandex and its Affiliates, as well as references to Yandex and its Affiliates when distributing the Generated Content without obtaining the consent of Yandex or its Affiliates, except for cases where special automatic marking is used in the Service (if any);

3.11.6. create products based on the Service violating the requirements of the applicable law and the provisions of the Terms of Use.

3.12. The use of the Service is only possible if the User has access to the Internet.

3.13. The Customer shall be solely responsible for the safety and confidentiality of registration data (login and password). All actions performed in the Management Console using the Customer’s login and password shall be considered as performed by the Customer, while the Customer will be responsible for such actions. All actions performed using the unique user key (IAM token) received by the Customer shall be considered as performed by the Customer, while the Customer will be responsible for such actions.

3.14. The Customer is solely responsible to third parties for actions related to the use of the Service, Generated Content as part of the Customer's final product and provides generation functionality on his behalf, taking into account the requirements of clause 3.11.6.

All communications, including communications with Users, authorities, and other third parties that contain a reference to Yandex, are subject to mandatory prior agreement with Yandex representatives.

3.15. Unless otherwise agreed by the Parties, the Сustomer is the end user of the Service in the form in which it is provided by Yandex, that means a direct ban on reselling the Service to third parties via a simple invocation of the application programming interface (API) functions, while such a prohibition does not apply to cases when the Service is used, directly or indirectly, by the Customer or User to enhance and develop their own product and subsequently sell such a product.

3.16 The Service may be provided using third-party products. These products are used under the terms and conditions of the relevant third parties, and the Client is required to comply with these terms, including, but not limited to the following (depending on the model used):

3.16.1. those found at: https://www.llama.com/llama3_1/license and https://www.llama.com/llama3_3/license.

3.16.2. those found at: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms, including the requirements of the Prohibited Use Policy located at https://ai.google.dev/gemma/prohibited_use_policy.

3.16.3. those found at: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-LLM/blob/main/LICENSE-MODEL including use-based restrictions:

You agree not to use the Model or Derivatives of the Model:

  • In any way that violates any applicable national or international law or regulation or infringes upon the lawful rights and interests of any third party;

  • For military use in any way;

  • For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way;

  • To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;

  • To generate or disseminate inappropriate content subject to applicable regulatory requirements;

  • To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information without due authorization or for unreasonable use;

  • To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;

  • For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;

  • For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;

  • To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;

  • For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories.

3.17. If the Customer uses a search tool "Yandex Search API" within the framework of the functionality of the Service, then the Customer is required to comply with the Terms of Use of Yandex Search API located at: https://yandex.com/legal/cloud_terms_search_api/en/.

3.18. Yandex has the right to restrict the Customer's access to the information search functionality of the Service using AI assistants if the number of Users using such functionality exceeds 1,000,000 per day. The number of Users is determined based on Yandex Statistics and other data, unless the Customer provides other evidence that properly confirms the number of Users. At the same time, the choice of the data source on the number of Users using certain functionality of the Service is in any case carried out by Yandex at its discretion.

4. Intellectual Property

4.1. The Customer shall be entitled to use the Service and the Generated Content in any way that does not contradict the Terms of Use and the applicable law. Any use beyond the scope of the Terms of Use is possible only with the prior approval of Yandex.

4.2. The Customer agrees that Yandex is entitled to use Requests and the Generated Content for the purpose of conducting analytics to study errors and failures in the operation of the Service and improving the operation of algorithms and technologies of Yandex and its Affiliates.

4.3. When starting the use of the Service, the Customer shall warrant that it does not and will not perform any actions aimed at circumventing any technical means of protection against an unauthorized use of the Service.

Any copying, reproduction, processing, distribution, making available to the public or other use of the Service beyond the features provided in accordance with the Terms of Use and any use thereof without the prior consent of Yandex are prohibited.

5. PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

5.1. When using the Service, the Customer shall instruct Yandex to process personal data that may be contained in Requests.

5.2. The Data Processing Agreement (posted on the Internet at: https://yandex.com/legal/cloud_dpa/) applies to the relationship of the parties when using the Service to the extent that does not contradict the Terms of Use, while considering the functional features of the Service. If there are any discrepancies between the Data Processing Agreement and the Terms of Use, the latter shall prevail.

5.3. The Customer warrants that it will ensure the existence and validity of legal grounds for the processing of personal data sufficient in accordance with the applicable law for their processing by Yandex to the extent stipulated by the Terms Use.

5.4. Yandex and its affiliates shall use all information contained in Requests for the purposes of providing the Service. Except for cases stipulated by Clause 5.4.1., no information about the Customer contained in Requests shall be used to train Yandex’s own models or for other purposes other than the above.

5.4.1.Accepting these Terms of Use, the Сustomer:

- agrees that any information from Requests may be used by Yandex or and its Affiliates for the purposes of debugging and training models (improving the quality of the Service) except in cases where the Customer has specified a special parameter prohibiting such use of information;

- represents and warrants that it has obtained all necessary consents and has all the necessary rights to transfer information from Requests to Yandex and its affiliates;

- warrants that any information from Requests does not contain information related to secrets protected by law, special categories of personal data, biometric personal data or other data, the processing of which is prohibited in accordance with the applicable law.

Definitions

Capitalized terms used in the Terms of Use and not defined in the Offer or the Service Terms shall have the following meanings:

Generated Content shall mean any information generated using artificial intelligence technologies;

Request shall mean any text information sent as a question to the Service;

User shall mean any person using the Service by sending Requests.

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Web address: https://yandex.com/legal/cloud_terms_yandex_ai_studio

Date of placement: September 24, 2025

Effective date: September 24, 2025