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Terms of Service

Last updated: April 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account or using Vector Panda ("Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Service Description

Vector Panda provides a cloud-hosted vector database API. You can store vector embeddings and associated metadata, search and retrieve vectors by similarity, and access the Service programmatically via API keys.

3. Beta Service

The Service is offered in beta. By using it you acknowledge and accept the following:

  • Data loss is possible. We may lose, corrupt, or delete vectors, metadata, or account state without warning. You must keep your own copies of any data you cannot afford to lose.
  • No backup guarantee. We do not promise that your data is backed up, that any backup we do take is recoverable, or that we will restore data on request.
  • No performance guarantee. Query latency, throughput, and availability may vary or degrade without notice. There is no Service Level Agreement during beta.
  • No accuracy guarantee. Approximate-nearest-neighbor indexes may return incorrect or stale results, and brute-force results may not exactly match a reference implementation.
  • Breaking changes. APIs, behaviors, and pricing may change during beta with limited notice.

We try our best to operate the Service responsibly and avoid these outcomes, but during beta you accept that they can happen and that we are not liable beyond the limits in Section 12.

4. Account Responsibilities

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and API keys. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use.

5. Pricing and Billing

Vector Panda offers the following service tiers, billed per GB of stored vectors per month:

  • Free to start: $5 in monthly usage credits applied automatically. No credit card is required for the first 90 days. After day 90, a credit card is required to continue receiving the credits; data is preserved either way.
  • Hot storage: $5.99 per GB per month (in-memory).
  • Warm storage: $1.49 per GB per month (SSD).
  • Paused storage: $0.09 per GB per month (archive, resume in minutes).

Billing is calculated monthly based on the GB-months your vectors occupied at each tier. Pricing is per-GB and dimension-agnostic. By providing a payment method, you authorize Vector Panda to charge for all incurred usage.

Payment processor. Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. We never see or store your full payment-card number; card details are submitted directly to Stripe and held in their PCI-compliant infrastructure. Your use of the Service's billing flow is also subject to Stripe's terms.

Refunds. Usage already consumed is non-refundable. If you downgrade to a lower-cost tier mid-month, charges for the remainder of the month accrue at the lower rate from the moment of the change forward; we do not credit retroactively. If you believe you were charged in error, contact billing@vectorpanda.com within 30 days of the invoice and we will review.

Failed payments. If a charge fails, Stripe retries automatically per its standard schedule. After seven days of unresolved payment failure your account moves to read-only state; after thirty days we may pause or terminate the account.

6. Query Capacity and Fair Use

Queries across all tenants share a single coordinator queue. Rather than enforcing hard per-second rate limits, the Service uses a fair-queue scheduler: each account receives a round-robin slice of cluster throughput. Under low contention a single active account may consume the full cluster's capacity; under high contention throughput divides fairly across active accounts.

To protect against abuse, the Service enforces a maximum of 100 simultaneously in-flight queries per account. Exceeding this returns HTTP 429. This threshold is set well above any normal interactive workload; sustained queueing at this level may also result in account suspension.

7. Free Tier

There is no formal Service Level Agreement for free tier accounts. Vector Panda may modify, limit, or discontinue free tier service at any time. Free tier collections that receive no queries for 30 consecutive days may be automatically paused.

8. Data Ownership

You retain full ownership of all vectors, metadata, and other data you store in Vector Panda. You grant Vector Panda a limited license to store, retrieve, and process your data solely to provide the Service. Upon account deletion, we will delete your data within 30 days.

9. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to:

  • Store illegal content or facilitate illegal activity
  • Conduct attacks against the Service or any other system
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive our source code or algorithms
  • Infringe on intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of third parties
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or other users' accounts

Violation may result in immediate account suspension or termination.

10. Suspension and Termination

Vector Panda may suspend or terminate your account if we believe you have violated these terms, engaged in illegal activity, or pose a security risk. You may delete your account at any time through the dashboard. Upon termination, your access ceases and your data will be deleted per our retention policy.

11. Service Availability

The Service is provided on an "as-is" basis. We aim to maintain high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Scheduled maintenance may occur with reasonable notice. We are not responsible for downtime caused by factors outside our control.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Vector Panda is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost revenue, or lost data, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total cumulative liability for any and all claims arising from your use of the Service is capped at the total amount you have actually paid to Vector Panda for the Service in the 12 months preceding the claim. For free-tier users who have made no payments, that cap is zero. We do not owe you a minimum recovery floor.

13. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided "as-is" and "as-available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, uninterrupted availability, or non-infringement. This disclaimer applies with particular force during the beta period described in Section 3.

14. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Sheridan County, Wyoming, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

15. Changes to Terms

Vector Panda may update these Terms of Service at any time. We will provide notice of material changes by email or by posting a notice on our website at least 30 days before the changes take effect. Continued use after changes become effective constitutes acceptance.

16. Privacy

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

17. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms of Service, contact us at legal@vectorpanda.com. For general support, see /support.

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