These plain-language terms describe the baseline rules for using GDELT Cloud during early access.
GDELT Cloud provides access to generated Events, Stories, Entities, summaries, APIs, MCP tools, alerts, briefs, and related product surfaces built from GDELT Project data and GDELT Cloud processing.
The product is actively improving. Features, limits, availability, and supported workflows may change as the service evolves.
You are responsible for activity under your account, API keys, and connected tools. Keep credentials secure and contact us if you believe access has been compromised.
Paid plan features and limits are controlled by the active subscription catalog shown in the product.
Free plan accounts are intended for individual evaluation and non-production use. Each person may hold one free account, and each organization may hold one free account, unless we agree otherwise in writing.
You may not create or use multiple accounts — whether registered to different people, email addresses, domains, or affiliated entities — in order to obtain additional free quota, exceed a plan limit, or otherwise avoid fees that would apply if the usage were combined under a single account. Rotating API keys or accounts to reset a quota is included in this restriction.
Where accounts are controlled by, or operated for the benefit of, the same organization, we may treat their usage as a single account for the purposes of plan limits and billing. We may ask you to consolidate those accounts onto an appropriate paid plan, and may suspend, rate-limit, or close accounts that continue to circumvent plan limits after we have contacted you and given you a reasonable opportunity to move to a suitable plan.
For customers with an active paid subscription, Customer grants GDELT Cloud permission to use Customer's organization name and standard public logo in customer lists, website materials, presentations, sales materials, investor materials, and related marketing channels solely to identify Customer as a GDELT Cloud customer or user.
GDELT Cloud will not imply endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, testimonial approval, press release approval, case study approval, or any relationship beyond Customer's use of GDELT Cloud without separate permission.
GDELT Cloud will comply with reasonable trademark usage guidelines Customer provides in writing and will remove Customer's name or logo upon reasonable written request.
Use GDELT Cloud for lawful research, analysis, monitoring, and integration work. Do not abuse the service, bypass limits, disrupt infrastructure, or use the service to harm others. Bypassing limits includes distributing usage across multiple accounts to exceed the quota, rate limit, or price of the plan that would otherwise apply.
API and MCP use is also governed by the Acceptable Use and API Terms page.
GDELT Cloud data is generated from public-source signals and automated processing. Outputs may be incomplete or incorrect and should be reviewed before operational, legal, financial, or safety-critical decisions.
You are responsible for how you interpret, distribute, and act on GDELT Cloud output.
Your subscription grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use GDELT Cloud output — Events, Stories, Entities, summaries, and related data — for your own internal business, research, and product purposes, including integrating it into your own applications and analyses.
You may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, republish, mirror, or otherwise make GDELT Cloud data available to third parties as a feed, dataset, or substitute for GDELT Cloud, and you may not systematically extract or store it to reconstruct the underlying database or build a competing product. Redistributing derived, materially-transformed insights to your own customers — or any other redistribution or resale — requires a separate written redistribution license; contact hello@gdeltcloud.com.
Early access subscribers receive priority support where included in the active plan. We may update these terms as the product matures.
For questions, account help, or commercial discussions, contact hello@gdeltcloud.com.
