Terms and Conditions

Last updated: 18 August 2026

These Terms govern your use of tokencheat, the service operated at tokencheat.com ("tokencheat", "we", "us"). By accessing tokencheat.com or the tokencheat application, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

Contact: legal@tokencheat.com

Section 14 contains a binding arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver. They affect how disputes are resolved. Please read them.

1. Who may use the service

You must be at least 16 and able to form a binding contract. If you accept on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.

2. The service

tokencheat provides calculators, comparison tables, auditors, and related tooling for estimating the token consumption, cost, and configuration quality of large language model workloads, plus an authenticated application for saving and managing that work.

We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service. For paid features we will give reasonable advance notice of a material adverse change.

3. Accuracy — read this before relying on any number

Every figure tokencheat produces is an estimate. None of it is a quotation, a guarantee, or financial advice.

  • Token counts from pasted text are approximations. Where a vendor publishes a characters-per-token ratio we use it; where none exists we measure against a published corpus or state plainly that the figure is assumed. Each estimate is labelled with its basis. Actual tokenisation depends on your exact content, and the same tokenizer can vary by more than three-fold across content types.
  • Prices are collected from provider documentation and change without notice. We record when each price was verified and against which page. We do not warrant that any price is current.
  • List rates only. Estimates exclude batch discounts, volume tiers, committed-use agreements, regional and long-context surcharges, reasoning-token billing, tool-use surcharges, taxes, and negotiated pricing.
  • Your provider's invoice is the only authoritative statement of what you owe. Verify against it before committing a budget or making a purchasing decision.

You are solely responsible for decisions you make using our output. We are not liable for overspending, underspending, budget variance, or any commercial decision based on an estimate.

4. No affiliation with model providers

tokencheat is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, Cohere, DeepSeek, Alibaba, xAI, Amazon, Moonshot AI, Zhipu AI, or any other model provider.

Provider and model names and logos are the trademarks of their owners, used descriptively under nominative fair use solely to identify the products being compared. Their presence indicates only that a product appears in a comparison; it does not indicate any relationship, endorsement, or approval. Logo artwork is sourced from each vendor's own brand materials or from an openly licensed vector library, and the source is attributed on the page wherever its licence requires it. Such a licence covers the vector artwork only; it does not convey trademark rights in the mark, which remain with the owner.

If you own a mark shown here and object to its use, email legal@tokencheat.com and we will remove it promptly. Provider documentation is cited and linked, not reproduced beyond what fair use permits.

5. Your account

Keep your credentials confidential and tell us promptly at legal@tokencheat.com if you suspect unauthorised access. You are responsible for activity under your account. We may suspend or terminate an account that violates these Terms or creates risk for us or other users.

6. Acceptable use

You will not:

  • break any law, or infringe anyone's intellectual property or privacy;
  • upload malware, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service or its infrastructure;
  • probe, scan, or test our security without our prior written consent;
  • scrape, crawl, or bulk-extract the service, or circumvent rate limits or access controls, except as our published API terms permit;
  • resell, sublicense, or white-label the service without a written agreement;
  • use the service to build a competing product, or to train a machine-learning model on our compiled datasets;
  • submit personal data of third parties without a lawful basis, or any special-category data;
  • misrepresent our estimates as authoritative pricing, or as endorsed by any model provider.

7. Your content

You keep all rights in what you submit. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, and display it solely to operate the service for you — and for no other purpose. We do not use your content to train models, and we do not sell it or share it for advertising.

You are responsible for having the rights to what you submit. The public tools process pasted text entirely in your browser and never transmit it to us, so nothing you enter there is licensed to us, because we never receive it.

8. Our content

The service, its software, design, compiled model catalogue, tokenizer profiles, and documentation are owned by the operators of tokencheat and protected by intellectual-property law. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the service for its intended purpose.

Datasets we publish under an open licence — such as the tokenizer measurement corpus — are governed by that licence, and it prevails over this section for those materials.

9. Paid plans

Fees, billing frequency, and features are those shown at purchase. Payments are processed by Stripe under its own terms; we do not receive your full card details.

  • Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Cancel any time before renewal, effective at the end of the paid period.
  • Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated at purchase.
  • We may change pricing with at least 30 days' notice before it applies to your next renewal.
  • You are responsible for applicable taxes.
  • We may suspend access for non-payment after notice and a reasonable cure period.

Consumers in the EU, UK, and other jurisdictions with statutory withdrawal or cancellation rights keep those rights; nothing here removes them.

10. Third-party services

The service links to and integrates third-party services. Their terms and privacy practices govern your use of them. We are not responsible for third-party content, availability, or conduct.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that any estimate, price, ratio, or comparison is accurate, complete, or current.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties; in those places this section applies to the maximum extent permitted.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, however caused and on any theory of liability, even if advised of the possibility.
  • Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars (US$100).

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death, or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations; in those places they apply to the maximum extent permitted.

13. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold harmless tokencheat and its operators and agents from any claim, loss, liability, and reasonable legal fees arising from your use of the service, your content, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of law or third-party rights.

14. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Mexico, without regard to conflict-of- law rules. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Informal resolution first. Before filing anything, email legal@tokencheat.com describing the dispute. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 60 days.

Binding arbitration. If we cannot, any dispute will be resolved by final and binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before one arbitrator, conducted remotely, or seated in New Mexico if either party requires an in-person hearing. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court for infringement or misuse of intellectual property.

Class-action waiver. Disputes will be brought only in an individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. If this waiver is held unenforceable, the arbitration agreement in this section is void in its entirety.

Opt out. You may reject this arbitration agreement by emailing legal@tokencheat.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and that you opt out. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

Consumers resident in the EU, UK, or other jurisdictions whose law grants a non-waivable right to bring proceedings in local courts keep that right, and this section does not deprive them of it.

15. Termination

You may stop using the service at any time and delete your account. We may suspend or terminate access for breach, legal risk, or non-payment, with notice where practicable. Sections 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 16 survive termination.

16. General

  • Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us on this subject.
  • Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
  • No waiver. Not enforcing a provision does not waive it.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
  • Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond reasonable control.
  • Changes. We may update these Terms and will post the revision here with a new date. Material changes take effect 30 days after notice, except changes required by law, which take effect immediately. Continued use after that constitutes acceptance.
  • Language. The English version is authoritative; if a translation conflicts, English controls.