Agreement and eligibility
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Ryan Stolliker, the operator of Bench Bazaar (“Bench Bazaar,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your use of the Bench Bazaar website, application, and related services (the “Service”).
By creating an account, purchasing a plan, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into this agreement. If you use the Service for a company or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and “you” includes that organization.
What Bench Bazaar provides
Bench Bazaar lets users create ordered suites of AI tasks, configure automatic and manual grading criteria, select model and routing settings where a plan permits, run those suites from a browser, save results and metadata, review outputs, and share benchmarks through public, unlisted, or private access.
The Service is a benchmarking and collaboration tool. It is not an AI model provider, a reseller of model inference, or a guarantee that a model, benchmark, score, leaderboard, or generated output is accurate, reproducible, unbiased, safe, or fit for a particular purpose.
Features and limits vary by plan. We may introduce, change, meter, or retire features as the Service develops. The current pricing page describes the material differences between Free and Pro.
Accounts and security
You must provide accurate account information, keep it current, and use the Service only through accounts you are authorized to control. You are responsible for activity under your account and for protecting your sign-in method, browser profile, OpenRouter API key, and private access links.
Do not share authentication sessions or allow another person to impersonate you. Private access links are bearer credentials: anyone who receives a valid link may be able to access the associated benchmark until the grant expires or is revoked. Contact us promptly if you suspect unauthorized account use or a security incident.
Your content
What counts as User Content
“User Content” includes benchmark names and descriptions, tasks, prompts, expected answers, grading criteria, model targets, route settings, presets, private grant labels, run data, manual reviews, feedback, and any text, code, HTML, SVG, JSON, Markdown, files, or other material you submit, store, or publish through the Service. Model outputs are also User Content to the extent you have rights in them.
You retain ownership
As between you and Bench Bazaar, you retain your ownership rights in User Content. These Terms do not transfer your User Content to us.
License needed to operate the Service
You grant Bench Bazaar a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, format, display, and otherwise use User Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and improve the Service; follow your visibility and sharing settings; provide support; and comply with law. This license includes the right to use service providers for those purposes and lasts while the content is hosted or retained in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Your responsibility for content
You represent that you own User Content or have all rights, permissions, and lawful bases needed to submit it and grant the licenses in these Terms. User Content and our permitted use of it must not violate law, these Terms, another person's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contract, or other rights.
AI services and outputs
Model inference is initiated from your browser using an OpenRouter API key you supply. If you save the key, it is stored in that browser's local storage; Bench Bazaar does not receive or store it on our servers. You authorize your browser to send benchmark prompts, generation settings, and related data to OpenRouter and the model providers you select.
Your relationship with OpenRouter and each model provider is governed by their own terms, privacy practices, model licenses, acceptable-use rules, geographic restrictions, and charges. You are responsible for your OpenRouter account, API-key usage, inference costs, routing choices, and compliance with all applicable model terms. Review the OpenRouter terms and the terms for each selected model before running sensitive or regulated data.
Ownership and permitted use of an output may depend on the selected provider's model terms and applicable law. We do not assign you rights in model outputs, promise that an output is protectable by intellectual-property law, or guarantee that it will not resemble third-party material.
AI outputs and benchmark scores can be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, unsafe, or inconsistent across runs. Model versions, routing, fallbacks, provider settings, and nondeterminism may affect results even when a benchmark configuration is unchanged. You are responsible for evaluating outputs and applying appropriate human review before relying on them.
Acceptable use
You may not use the Service to:
- violate law, sanctions, export controls, or the rights of any person;
- upload, publish, or solicit content that is unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, threatening, harassing, hateful, sexually exploitative, or abusive, including any material that exploits or endangers a child;
- submit personal, confidential, proprietary, or regulated information without the permissions, notices, safeguards, and lawful basis required for it;
- distribute malware, destructive code, deceptive artifacts, credential-stealing content, or instructions intended to compromise a device, account, model, or service;
- probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities without written permission; bypass authentication, access controls, plan limits, or storage limits; or access another person's account or nonpublic content;
- scrape, automate, or send traffic in a manner that unreasonably burdens the Service, degrades it for others, or violates robots.txt or other technical restrictions;
- manipulate runs, reviews, scores, leaderboards, identities, or provenance to misrepresent how a result was produced;
- use the Service or an output as the sole basis for high-impact decisions about a person in employment, housing, lending, insurance, education, healthcare, legal services, or access to essential services; or
- help another person do any of the above.
Research involving harmful or adversarial prompts is not prohibited merely because it tests model safety. You remain responsible for containing the research, protecting people and systems, following provider rules, and avoiding unlawful publication or operational harm.
Third-party services
The Service depends on third parties, including Clerk for authentication, Stripe and Link for checkout and subscription management, Neon for managed Postgres, Vercel for hosting and private object storage, and OpenRouter and its model providers for user-directed inference. Optional Google or GitHub sign-in is also governed by those providers.
Third-party services are not controlled by Bench Bazaar. Their availability, security, data handling, fees, and terms are their responsibility. We do not warrant them and are not responsible for changes, outages, content, charges, or losses caused by them. Features that depend on a third party may change or stop if that integration becomes unavailable.
Our Privacy Policy explains what information these providers process in connection with Bench Bazaar.
Paid plans and billing
Plans and renewal
Bench Bazaar offers a Free plan and may offer paid plans, including Pro. When you start a paid subscription, you authorize Stripe to charge the displayed price, applicable taxes, and any disclosed fees to your selected payment method. Monthly subscriptions renew each month and annual subscriptions renew each year until canceled.
Cancellation and plan changes
You can manage or cancel a subscription through the Stripe billing portal linked from Settings. Unless the portal or applicable law states otherwise, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period and you keep paid access until then. Deleting your Bench Bazaar account cancels an active subscription immediately as part of the deletion process.
Refunds and failed payments
Payments are nonrefundable except where required by law or expressly stated during checkout. If a payment is late, reversed, or unsuccessful, we may pause paid features, downgrade the account, or suspend access until Stripe confirms payment recovery.
Price and feature changes
We may change plan prices or features. A price change for an existing subscription will take effect no earlier than the next renewal after the notice required by law. If you do not agree, cancel before the new price takes effect. Downgrading or losing paid access may restrict access to retained output bodies and may cause older runs or outputs to be removed under then-current Free plan limits.
Inference charges are separate
Our service and feedback
Bench Bazaar and its licensors own the Service, including its software, design, branding, documentation, and other material we provide, excluding User Content and third-party material. Subject to these Terms, we give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use the Service for its intended purpose.
You may not copy, sell, sublicense, reverse engineer, or exploit the Service itself; remove proprietary notices; frame or mirror the Service; or use nonpublic parts of the Service to build a competing product, except where applicable law gives you a nonwaivable right to do so. These restrictions do not limit the licenses that benchmark authors grant for their User Content.
If you send suggestions or feedback, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation. This does not give us rights to unrelated User Content included with the feedback.
Moderation and termination
We are not required to monitor User Content, but we may investigate reports and remove, restrict, or preserve content when we reasonably believe it violates these Terms, provider requirements, or law; threatens the Service or another person; or exposes us or others to liability.
We may suspend or terminate access, revoke share links, limit features, or take other proportionate action for a material or repeated violation, a security risk, nonpayment, abusive usage, or a legal requirement. Where practical and lawful, we will provide notice and an opportunity to cure before terminating an account, but urgent action may be immediate.
You may stop using the Service at any time and can request account deletion in Settings. Account deletion removes or de-identifies content and account data as described in our Privacy Policy, subject to operational processing time, backups, legal retention, and copies previously made by other users.
Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including licenses for existing shared copies, payment obligations, intellectual-property provisions, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and dispute terms.
Disclaimers
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT, BENCHMARKS, SCORES, LEADERBOARDS, REVIEWS, OUTPUTS, AND FEATURES AVAILABLE THROUGH IT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” BENCH BAZAAR DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ACCURATE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT CONTENT WILL BE PRESERVED; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT A MODEL OUTPUT OR BENCHMARK RESULT WILL BE REPRODUCIBLE, SAFE, LAWFUL, OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR USE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN DISCLAIMERS, SO SOME OF THESE TERMS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Limits on liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BENCH BAZAAR AND ITS AFFILIATES, CONTRACTORS, AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, DATA, CONTENT, MODEL CREDITS, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID BENCH BAZAAR FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) US $100.
These limits do not apply where prohibited by law and do not limit liability that cannot legally be limited, including liability for fraud or willful misconduct. They do not affect nonwaivable consumer rights.
Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Bench Bazaar and its affiliates and contractors from third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal costs arising from your User Content, your violation of these Terms or law, your infringement of another's rights, or your misuse of the Service. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by our own unlawful conduct. We will give you reasonable notice of a covered claim and may control its defense; you will reasonably cooperate, and you may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault by or imposes obligations on us without our consent.
Governing law and disputes
Before filing a formal claim, you and Bench Bazaar agree to try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally. Send a written description of the issue and requested resolution to the contact address below. If it is not resolved within 30 days after receipt, either party may pursue available legal remedies.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any court proceeding must be brought in a state or federal court located in California, and each party consents to those courts' personal jurisdiction. You or Bench Bazaar may bring an eligible claim in small claims court.
If the law where you live gives you mandatory consumer protections or a right to bring a claim in local courts, nothing in this section takes those rights away.
General terms
We may update these Terms as the Service, our business, or law changes. We will post the revised Terms and update the effective date. For material changes, we will provide additional notice when required by law. Changes apply prospectively. If you continue using the Service after revised Terms take effect, you agree to them; if you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and cancel any subscription.
We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law. You may not assign them without our written consent. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, except for payment obligations.
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service unless we both sign a separate agreement. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest will remain effective. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Headings are for convenience only.
Contact
Terms, content, or legal questions
Ryan Stolliker, operator of Bench Bazaar
support+bazaar@ryanws.techFor an intellectual-property complaint, identify the work, the material at issue and its URL, your contact details, the basis for your claim, and a statement that the information you provide is accurate and made in good faith.