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Developer API infrastructure terms operated by MAGICFORGE LTD (England & Wales, Company No. 16211132)

Effective Date: November 12, 2026 · Contracting Entity: MAGICFORGE LTD (England and Wales · Company No. 16211132) · Registered Office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom

Key Summary

bf16.ai is operated by MAGICFORGE LTD (a company registered in England and Wales under Company No. 16211132, registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom) for developers aged 18+. One-time non-expiring USD prepaid credits meter verified open-weight LLM endpoints with zero prompt storage, commercial SaaS integration rights on verified endpoints, and preserved mandatory statutory consumer protections.

1. Contracting Entity, 18+ Eligibility & Sanctions Compliance

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a legally binding contract between MAGICFORGE LTD (registered in England and Wales, Company No. 16211132, registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom; "bf16", "we", "us") and you ("Customer"). You must be at least 18 years of age (and of legal majority in your jurisdiction) and must not be located in, organized under, or affiliated with any person, entity, or jurisdiction subject to sanctions enforced by UK HM Treasury (OFSI), the United Nations, US OFAC, or the European Union.

2. Stateless API Service & Open-Weight Model Attribution

bf16 provides OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible API gateways (/v1/* and POST /mcp) serving weight-modified ("abliterated") open-weight language and vision models. Model inference remains subject to applicable upstream open-weight licenses (including DeepSeek, GLM, Apache-2.0, and MIT licenses) linked on each /models/$slug page. Weight orthogonalization reduces over-refusal on benign developer workloads without guaranteeing lossless capability on every task, and bf16 provides inference strictly on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis to the fullest extent permitted by law.

3. Prepaid USD Credits, Merchant of Record Checkout & Taxes

bf16 API balances are single-purpose USD software computation credits settled at nanodollar precision (10^-9 USD) — not bank deposits, electronic money, or regulated payment accounts:

  1. Merchant of Record Checkout: Top-up payments are processed by bf16's authorized Merchant of Record ("MoR") partners — Waffo (primary) and Dodo Payments (secondary) — who calculate, collect, and remit applicable local VAT, GST, or sales taxes and issue official tax invoices. bf16 separately provides downloadable Prepaid Credit Statements in /dashboard/credits.
  2. One-Time Non-Expiring Top-Ups: Prepaid top-ups are one-time user-initiated purchases in integer USD amounts from USD $10 to USD $2,000. Purchased credit balances never expire (expires_at = NULL). bf16 operates zero recurring subscriptions and zero unscheduled off-session saved-card charges; optional low-balance email alerts ($2.50 and $0) notify you when to top up manually.
  3. Promotional & Welcome Credits: Welcome trial ($1.00), promotional, and redeem-code grants are non-cash evaluation credits, carry zero monetary value, and are non-refundable. Refunds of purchased credits are governed by our Refund Policy.

4. Acceptable Use, Commercial Resale Flow-Down & Disputed Charges

Customer may integrate and resell bf16 API inference within Customer's commercial software or SaaS products across general-pool models verified for commercial resale (commercial_resale_permitted = true), provided Customer: (a) binds downstream users to rules at least as strict as our Acceptable Use Policy; (b) keeps sk-bf16-v1-* keys confidential server-side; (c) passes a non-PII hashed identifier (user / metadata.user_id) on multi-user traffic; and (d) indemnifies MAGICFORGE LTD against third-party claims caused by downstream breaches. Initiating a payment card chargeback freezes API access pending MoR dispute resolution.

5. Limitation of Liability, Governing Law & Corporate Contacts

Individual consumers acting outside a trade, business, or profession retain all non-waivable statutory rights under the laws of their habitual residence (including UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 and EU/EEA consumer protections). Subject to that mandatory carve-out, these Terms and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes) are governed by the laws of England and Wales, with exclusive jurisdiction in the courts of England and Wales, and MAGICFORGE LTD's aggregate liability is capped at the total USD fees paid by Customer to bf16 in the 12 months preceding the claim (never excluding liability for fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or non-excludable statutory liabilities). Contacts: support@bf16.ai · billing@bf16.ai · privacy@bf16.ai · legal@bf16.ai.