1. Two instruments
DeAI datasets (currently the Decentralized Inference Provider Tracker) are distributed under two instruments, split by surface:
- Current-state surfaces — CSV snapshots and current-state API responses — are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): free to use, share and adapt, including commercially, with attribution.
- History surfaces — append-only change logs, the change feed, and full JSON snapshots — are provided under these DeAI Data License Terms.
2. What the grant covers
The grant covers the DeAI dataset as a compilation: selection, arrangement, schema, per-field verification grades, and history curation, including EU sui generis database rights. Underlying facts are facts and are not owned or restricted by DeAI. Third-party licensed data shown on DeAI pages is excluded from the dataset and from this grant.
3. Express permissions on history surfaces
The following uses of DeAI history surfaces are expressly permitted, royalty-free, with attribution as set out in section 4:
- Journalism and editorial use, including charts, excerpts and derived graphics, in any outlet — including for-profit outlets;
- Academic and policy research, including publication of results and derived analyses;
- Citation, quotation and fact-checking in any medium;
- AI assistants and search/answer engines retrieving, summarizing and answering user queries from this data, with source attribution.
For clarity: permission (d) covers retrieval and indexing for the purpose of answering user queries with attribution at inference time; it does not extend to use of the dataset as training data, which falls under the reserved acts.
What is reserved is defined by act, not by actor. The following require a commercial license (via the contact address):
- systematic bulk extraction of history surfaces;
- redistribution of the dataset, or a substantial part of it, as a dataset;
- embedding the dataset or a substantial part of it in a commercial product, database, or model-training corpus.
Time-limited internal evaluation for the purpose of assessing a commercial license is permitted within fair-use rate limits.
4. Required attribution
Human-readable:
DeAI News, "Decentralized Inference Provider Tracker", https://deai.org/tracker
HTML:
<a href="https://deai.org/tracker">DeAI News — Decentralized Inference Provider Tracker</a>
Every API response and bulk file carries the same attribution machine-readable in its attribution field.
5. Rate limits, keys and future tiers
Current-state endpoints are open — no key. History endpoints (/api/v1/changes) work without a key at 60 requests/hour per IP. A free API key raises this to 1000 requests/hour (fair use); keys are issued by email and require assent to these terms — that assent is the license agreement between you and DeAI. Metered or commercial tiers may be introduced with 30 days' notice on this page; free tiers described here will not be silently withdrawn.
6. Verification notice
This dataset carries per-field verification grades (see the tracker's "About the data" section and methodology). A field's grade is not a warranty that the underlying claim is true — it states how confident DeAI is, and why.
7. Governing law
[Placeholder pending counsel review: governing law and venue clause. Final wording to be supplied by counsel; nothing in this section is operative until then.]
Changelog
Append-only, like the datasets: terms changes get new dated entries below, never rewrites.
- 2026-08-24 — v1.0: inaugural terms, effective from dataset publication.