TERMS OF SERVICE

SUMMARY

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

By signing up for or using mcpmeter you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the service. If you're using mcpmeter on behalf of a company, you confirm you have the authority to bind that company — "you" then means both you personally and that company.

These Terms work alongside our Privacy Policy. Together they form the full agreement between you and us.

ELIGIBILITY

To use mcpmeter you must:

• Be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, if higher).
• Be legally able to form a binding contract.
• Not be on a sanctions list, and not be located in a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive US sanctions.

If you're a publisher receiving payouts, you must additionally pass Stripe Connect's KYC checks — we don't run them, Stripe does, and we follow their result.

ACCOUNTS

There are two account types:

• Consumer — you buy credits and call MCPs. This is the default on signup.
• Publisher — you list your own MCP servers and receive payouts. Consumers can upgrade in-place from /profile.

One account per person. If you also operate as a company, use a separate account for the company. You're responsible for everything that happens under your account — keep your password and API keys safe. Tell us at [email protected] if you suspect compromise.

ACCEPTABLE USE

You agree not to:

• Use the service for anything illegal, or to facilitate someone else's illegal activity.
• Try to break, overload, or probe our infrastructure outside of an agreed responsible-disclosure scope.
• Scrape mcpmeter's marketplace, listings, or pricing data to build a competing product.
• Impersonate another person or company, or misrepresent your affiliation with one.
• Reverse-engineer or attempt to extract source code from our hosted services (the open-source proxy is a separate matter — that's already public).
• Use automated means to inflate metrics, fake calls to a publisher (yours or someone else's), or otherwise manipulate the ledger.

PUBLISHER OBLIGATIONS

If you list an MCP server, you specifically agree that:

• You own or have a clear license to operate the upstream service the listing wraps. Listing someone else's API as your own is grounds for immediate removal.
• You're responsible for the availability, correctness, and security of your MCP. We're a router and a meter — we don't validate the substance of what your tools return.
• You'll keep your listing's description, pricing, and tool schemas accurate. Material changes (e.g. removing a tool that consumers depend on) should be communicated, where reasonable, before they ship.
• You won't list anything in the Prohibited Content section below.
• We may suspend or remove your listing at any time for ToS violations, repeated abuse complaints, or because Stripe / our payment processors have flagged the account.

PROHIBITED CONTENT

• Anything illegal in the United States or in the publisher's home jurisdiction.
• Content that infringes someone else's intellectual property, trademark, or right of publicity.
• Malware, exploit kits, credential stealers, or tools designed primarily to harm or surveil others without consent.
• Unlicensed gambling, lotteries, or sweepstakes.
• Sexually explicit material involving any person, real or generated, regardless of age. (Other adult content is also not permitted at this time.)
• Spam, phishing, or content designed to deceive end users.
• Hate speech, content that incites violence against a protected class, or terrorist content.
• Personal data of third parties shared without their consent.

CONSUMER OBLIGATIONS

• API keys are secrets. Don't commit them to public repos, share them in screenshots, or hand them to third parties. If a key leaks, revoke it from /keys and rotate.
• Don't abuse listings. Don't run high-volume automated calls against a publisher's MCP solely to drain a competitor, run up someone else's payout for refund-fraud purposes, or stress-test without permission.
• Top-ups are non-refundable beyond 30 days. See Payments below.
• Spending caps are your responsibility. We provide per-project caps; configure them. If your agent runs away with your balance because you didn't set a cap, that's on you.

PAYMENTS, FEES, REFUNDS

mcpmeter is USD only at this time.

• Pre-paid credits. You buy credit in fixed amounts via Stripe Checkout. Credit is added to your balance once Stripe confirms the payment.
• No expiry. Credits don't expire. They sit in your balance until you spend, refund, or close your account.
• Per-call debits. Each successful billable call debits the publisher's per-call price from your balance, recorded in our ledger to the µ¢ (micro-cent).
• Refunds. You can request a refund of unused credits within 30 days of the original top-up by emailing [email protected]. Refunds are processed back to the original card via Stripe. After 30 days, top-ups are non-refundable but the credit remains usable indefinitely.
• Failed calls. Calls that return a non-2xx status from the upstream MCP are not billed. Calls that fail at our proxy (502, 504) are not billed. See the status codes doc.
• Stripe handles processing. We never see your card number, CVC, or full PAN. Stripe's terms apply to the payment leg.

PUBLISHER PAYOUTS

• Schedule. Payouts are batched and sent on or shortly after the 1st of each month, covering paid calls from the previous calendar month.
• Minimum. $5.00. Below that, the balance rolls forward to next month.
• KYC. Payouts only flow once your Stripe Connect Express account is fully verified. Stripe runs identity, banking, and (where applicable) tax checks. We can't release funds until Stripe says go.
• Taxes. Publisher payouts are gross of any taxes you owe. Tax compliance is your responsibility. We don't withhold income tax. Where US law requires, Stripe will issue you a 1099-K via the Connect dashboard.
• Refund clawback. If a consumer is refunded for calls already paid out, the refunded amount is deducted from your next payout (or invoiced if there's no upcoming payout).

PLATFORM FEES

We take a percentage of paid call revenue — not of free calls, not of top-up amounts, just the per-call money that flows through your listings.

TIER	WHO	PLATFORM TAKE	PUBLISHER NET
FOUNDER	First 100 publishers	10%	90%
STANDARD	All other publishers	20%	80%

Your tier is shown on your publisher dashboard. Founder status is permanent — once granted, your rate doesn't change. We may introduce additional tiers (e.g. volume-based) later, but we won't ever silently raise your rate.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• You keep what's yours. Publishers retain all IP in their MCP servers, source code, tool schemas, and the responses their MCPs return.
• License to us. By listing, you grant mcpmeter a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display your listing (name, description, tool schemas, screenshots), proxy calls to your endpoint, log call metadata, and otherwise operate the marketplace and meter on your behalf. This license ends when you remove the listing — except for retained metadata as described in our Privacy Policy.
• Our marks. "mcpmeter", the meter logo, and our amber-on-console design are ours. Don't use them in a way that suggests endorsement we haven't given.
• DMCA. If you believe content on mcpmeter infringes your copyright, send a takedown notice with the standard 17 USC § 512(c)(3) elements to [email protected].

PROXY METERING

The meter, the ledger, and the per-µ¢ debit math are all visible. If you ever doubt a charge, you can replay the call against the public proxy and reconcile the numbers. We'll fix any discrepancies promptly.

SUSPENSION / TERMINATION

We may suspend or terminate your account, listings, or access to all or part of the service if:

• You materially breach these Terms.
• Your balance is negative and remains unpaid after a reasonable cure period.
• We're required to by law, court order, or our payment processor.
• Continued operation poses a credible security or fraud risk.

Where the breach is curable and the situation isn't an emergency, we'll give you notice and a chance to fix it before suspending.

You can close your account at any time from /profile. On closure, your remaining credits are refundable for 30 days; after that they're forfeited. Publisher listings are removed; pending payouts are released on the next normal cycle.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, or lost data, even if advised of the possibility.

Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to mcpmeter is capped at the greater of:

• The fees you paid us in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or
• $100 USD.

Some jurisdictions don't allow these limits; where that's the case, the limits apply to the maximum extent permitted.

INDEMNIFICATION

Each party will defend, indemnify, and hold the other harmless from third-party claims arising out of that party's breach of these Terms, violation of applicable law, or infringement of third-party rights. The indemnified party must promptly notify the indemnifying party of the claim and reasonably cooperate in the defense.

Specifically: publishers indemnify us for claims arising from their MCP content or operation; consumers indemnify us for claims arising from their misuse of the service.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

We'd much rather resolve a problem with you than fight one. So:

• Step 1 — Informal. Email [email protected] with a description of the dispute. We'll have 30 days to try to resolve it directly.
• Step 2 — Arbitration. If we can't resolve it informally, the dispute will be settled by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies.
• No class actions. You and we agree that disputes will be resolved on an individual basis only. No class arbitrations, no class actions, no representative actions.
• Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of [GOVERNING_LAW_TBD], without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

CHANGES TO TERMS

We may update these Terms over time. If we make a material change, we'll email all account holders at least 30 days before it takes effect. Non-material changes (typos, clarifications, additional examples) may take effect immediately, with the updated date shown at the top of this page.

If you don't agree with an update, your remedy is to close your account before the update takes effect; continued use afterwards counts as acceptance.

CONTACT

Legal questions, ToS violations, dispute notices: [email protected].

For privacy requests, billing, or security issues, see the dedicated addresses in the Privacy Policy.