Your Own AI

Terms of Service

Effective: August 19, 2026

Acceptance

By using Your Own AI you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. You must be 13 or older (16 in the European Union) and use the app lawfully.

The free app

The desktop app is free and open source (AGPL). Everything local - offline models, your AIs, memory, documents, records, backups to your own Flowsta Vault - is free and stays free. The app is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind.

AI answers can be wrong

AI models make mistakes and can state false things confidently. You are responsible for how you use their output. Nothing an AI says in Your Own AI is professional advice - medical, legal, or financial. The medical model helps you understand your own results and prepare questions; it never diagnoses. Always consult a professional for decisions that matter.

Tools, add-ons and actions

An AI you give tools can act: read and change files in a project you open, run commands, drive other programs and services through add-ons (tools, skills, connected servers), and reach the web where a tool does. You direct and supervise that work, and you are responsible for it and for its results - including anything a tool changes, deletes, sends, or spends. Add-ons are third-party software under their own terms; installing one is your choice, and we do not vet, control, or warrant what it does. The approvals the app asks for keep you in the loop; they are not a guarantee of safety.

Paid plans (online models)

  • Online models are optional. The app is complete without them - offline models, your AIs, memory, documents, and records need no plan and never will. A plan adds online frontier models and web search for the conversations you choose to send further afield.
  • Each plan includes a monthly usage allowance; usage beyond it is metered at the rates shown in the app, and monthly plans bill on the 1st with the first month prorated.
  • When you do use an online model, we make the request as private as we can: your identity is stripped before anything leaves - the provider gets the content, never your name, email, or address - the request travels under Flowsta's account, and our relay stores none of it on the way through. What reaches the provider is then subject to that provider's terms; which providers, and what each says it does with content, is set out in the Privacy Policy.
  • Signing exported conversations uses signatures from your plan's quota. Verification is always free, for anyone.
  • Cancel anytime. Everything local keeps working exactly as before - plans only ever add.

How charges are calculated

  • The rate. For every online model, our rate is the provider's published list price plus 30%. That 30% is the whole business: it carries the relay, payment processing, and Flowsta. It is 30% today; if that ever changes we will say so here and it will not change part-way through a month. When a provider changes its list price, our rate moves with it - same 30%.
  • What is counted. Whatever the provider bills us for a request, we bill you at the same rate plus 30%: input tokens; cached-input tokens at the provider's lower cache rate (automatic when the turns of a conversation share context); cache-write tokens where a provider charges them; output tokens, which include the model's thinking - a long think is billed like any other output; and per-request or per-web-search fees where a provider charges them. Where a provider's price steps up for very long requests or by time of day, our rate steps the same way; the rate shown in the app is the highest step, so you are only ever charged that or less. Token counts are the provider's own report for the request. A request that fails is not charged.
  • Allowance and overage. Usage counts against your monthly allowance at these same rates and shows in the app as it happens. The allowance resets on the 1st; unused allowance does not carry over. When it is used up, online models pause until the 1st unless you turn on overage billing in your account. Overage is billed at the same rates - monthly, or as you go each time accrued overage reaches $100. If an overage payment fails, online models pause until that invoice is paid and overage billing turns itself off; the free app and everything local are unaffected.
  • If we get it wrong. Every charge is recorded with the counts behind it. If a charge looks wrong, write to legal@flowsta.com and we will check it against the record and correct it.

Your data, your responsibility

Your conversations and AIs live on your device. With a Flowsta Vault they back up automatically on your machine; without one, your device is the only copy. Your Flowsta identity itself is protected by your recovery phrase, which only you hold - see the Flowsta Terms for what that means. We cannot recover data or keys for you: that is the design, not a limitation of support.

Acceptable use

Don't use the online services for anything creating direct legal liability (child sexual abuse material, credible threats of violence against specific people), for infrastructure abuse (automated attacks, evading rate limits), or in violation of the online model providers' policies. What you do with offline models on your own machine is your business - that's the point - but the law still applies to you.

If a plan is terminated

If we terminate a plan for abuse of the online services, the free app and everything local remain yours - we cannot take back the app, your data, or your records, and wouldn't if we could.

Your data is portable

Your Own AI's records run on Holochain under the Cryptographic Autonomy License: your data exports readable with its keys, and we impose no technical or legal restrictions on your use of your own data. Even if we ceased operating, the app and your data keep working.

Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our liability is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months before a claim. We are not liable for decisions made on AI output, for actions your AIs or their tools take on your instructions or with your approval, for third-party add-ons, for data on your device, or for the availability of third-party model providers.

Changes, law, contact

We'll note material changes on this page; continued use means acceptance. Governing law: Victoria, Australia. Questions: legal@flowsta.com.