# API terms of use

> Original: https://api.6io.io/en/docs/terms/ (HTML). All pages: https://api.6io.io/llms.txt

By creating a key or sending requests to the API you accept these terms.

1. **What the 6io API is.** It is a 6io service: one access point to AI models and the infrastructure for working with them — accepting and sending requests, queues and background jobs, error handling, limits, cost accounting and a balance in credits. The models themselves are built and run by their developers and providers: the models' answers, their work, availability and rules do not depend on us.
2. **Liability.** We bear no responsibility whatsoever for users and providers: neither for the content of requests and answers, nor for the actions of users, nor for the work, quality, availability, rules and decisions of providers (refusal, blocking, changing or switching off models), nor for the consequences of using the answers you receive.
3. **Risks.** You use the API at your own risk and take on all risks connected with using the service and the models' answers.
4. **Your duties.** You are responsible for the content of your requests, for obeying the law and the providers' rules, and for keeping your keys safe: anything done with your key is considered done by you. If you give a link to a file, you confirm that you may use it; to process the task we download the file and keep a copy for at most 15 minutes, and the copy is deleted when the task ends.
5. **Money.** Charges are described in "Balance and charges".
6. **Restrictions.** We may change the API, prices, limits and the list of models, and may restrict or switch off keys and access.
7. **As is.** The service is provided "as is", with no guarantee of uninterrupted work or of any result.