Terms of Service

Effective 14 August 2026 · Version 1.2

These terms are a contract between you and Blopus Labs LLC. They cover the Blopus search API, the MCP server, the SDKs, the customer console and the website. Please read them before you create an account.

1. Who we are

Blopus is operated by Blopus Labs LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("Blopus", "we", "us", "our"). Our registered address is listed in the Contact section. "You" means the person or organization that creates an account or uses the service.

2. Accepting these terms

By creating an account, using an API key, or using the service in any way, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, you confirm you are authorized to bind that company.

You must be at least 18 years old to open an account.

3. The service

Blopus provides programmatic access to a web search index that we build and operate ourselves. The service includes:

• a search endpoint that returns ranked results with links and short extracts,
• a fetch endpoint that retrieves the readable content of a page you specify,
• a hosted MCP server and official SDKs,
• a customer console for keys, usage and billing.

We build our index with our own crawler. We do not resell results from other search engines.

4. Accounts and API keys

• Give accurate registration details and keep them current.
• You are responsible for everything done with your account and your API keys.
• Keep your API keys secret. Treat them like passwords. Do not commit them to public repositories or embed them in client-side code that users can read.
• Tell us promptly (see Contact) if you believe a key has been exposed. You can revoke and rotate keys yourself at any time in the console.
• We are not liable for loss arising from a key you exposed, but we will always help you rotate and contain it.

5. Plans, pricing and billing

Prices are in US dollars and exclude any sales tax or VAT, which is calculated at checkout where it applies.

Payments are handled by Stripe. Checkout is hosted by Stripe and card details are entered on Stripe's systems. Blopus never receives, processes or stores your card number. Stripe issues your receipts.

If a payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend the service until payment succeeds.

Changing plan

• Upgrades take effect immediately and start a new billing period. We credit, in full, the time you have already paid for on your old plan, and charge for a full period of the plan you are moving to, beginning that day. Your renewal date moves to the day you upgrade — upgrading an annual plan begins a new twelve-month term.
• Downgrades take effect at your next renewal, so you keep the plan you paid for until the period ends.
• Moving from an annual plan to monthly takes effect at your renewal date. You can request the change at any time and we will schedule it: your annual plan runs to the end of the period you have already paid for, and monthly billing begins on the renewal date. We do not switch mid-term because part of what you already paid would become an unused balance rather than service.
• You can move from monthly to annual at any time.

Discount codes

• Discount codes can be used on a new plan, an upgrade, or a top-up. They cannot be applied to a downgrade, and moving to a lower plan ends a discount that is still running — discounts follow upgrades, not downgrades.
• A discount applies to the plan you are moving to. It does not reduce the credit you receive for time already paid for.
• That credit is always based on what you actually paid. If a discount was already running on your old plan, the credit reflects the discounted amount you paid, not the list price.
• Every code has an expiry date — the last day it can be redeemed — and a code may be withdrawn at any time before then. Once redeemed, a discount runs for 12 months and your plan then returns to its normal price. On an annual plan that covers one annual payment.
• Codes cannot be combined, and one code applies per subscription.

6. Usage caps and top-ups

Every plan has a hard cap. When you reach your monthly allowance, further calls stop and return a quota error until the allowance resets or you upgrade or buy a top-up.

Top-ups are $5 for 1,000 additional searches and are consumed after your monthly allowance is used. Unused top-up credit remains available while your subscription is active.

7. Renewal, cancellation and refunds

• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period, monthly or annual, until canceled.
• You may cancel at any time from the console. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and you keep access until then.
• We do not offer refunds for partial periods or unused allowance. If something has gone genuinely wrong on our side, contact us and we will deal with it fairly.

8. Acceptable use

Do not use Blopus to:

• break the law, or infringe anyone's intellectual property or privacy rights,
• build a product whose main purpose is to resell or redistribute our search results as a competing search API,
• bulk export, mirror or reconstruct a substantial part of our index,
• share one account or key across separate businesses to avoid paying for a plan,
• work around rate limits, quotas or caps, for example by cycling accounts or keys,
• attack, overload, probe or reverse engineer the service,
• generate or amplify spam, malware, harassment or deliberate misinformation.

Building your own application, agent or product that uses Blopus is exactly what the service is for and is fully permitted. What is not permitted is repackaging Blopus itself as a rival search API.

Competitive use, benchmarking and reverse engineering

Without our prior written consent, you may not:

• use the service to design, build, train or improve a competing search index, crawler, or search or retrieval API,
• use the service on behalf of, or for the benefit of, a competitor, including through an employee, contractor, agent or affiliate,
• publish benchmarks, measured performance comparisons or head-to-head competitive analysis of the service without our prior written consent, which we will not unreasonably withhold,
• systematically query, sample or measure results in order to infer the size, coverage, freshness, composition or ranking behavior of our index,
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the service, or attempt to derive its source code, algorithms or ranking logic, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.

If we reasonably believe an account is being used for any of these purposes, we may suspend or terminate it immediately under section 17, and no refund is due.

What needs our written consent is publishing measured benchmark figures or head-to-head performance comparisons. That is not to stop scrutiny. A benchmark run on the wrong plan tier, against a cold cache, or with an unrepresentative query set gives your readers a number that is simply wrong. If you want to publish figures, tell us and we will help you run it properly and give you the context. We will not unreasonably withhold consent.

9. License scope: personal or business

Which one do I need?

Answer two questions honestly and the answer follows:

1. Is the licensee a person or an organization? If a company, agency or institution is paying, benefiting, or would be the party to this agreement, that is Business — however few people are involved. Two developers at one company is still one Business license, not two Personal ones.
2. Does anyone other than the licensee see the results? If Blopus output is shown to your application’s users, delivered to a client, or surfaced inside a product other people use, that is Business — even if you are a sole trader.

If both answers point to you alone, Personal is the right license and it costs what the published plan costs.

What Personal does not cover

• Use by, for, or on behalf of an organization, including your employer.
• Putting results in front of anyone but you — in a product, a service, a client deliverable, or a public website.
• Serving traffic generated by other people, such as an application’s end users.
• Reselling, sublicensing or redistributing the API or the index in any form.

What Business adds

• The right to put results in front of third parties — inside your product, your internal tools, or work you deliver to clients.
• An organization as the licensee, so the agreement sits with the entity rather than an individual, and everyone working for it is covered.
• Volume above the published personal plans, higher rate limits, invoicing and purchase orders where you need them.

Reselling the API as your own search product, or redistributing our index in bulk, is not included at any tier and needs a separate written agreement. Tell us what you need and we will put one in place.

Your account and your API keys

We do not charge per seat and we do not count how many of you there are. What we do require is that a personal license stays with the person it was issued to.

• Your login is personal and non-transferable. Do not share your credentials, let anyone else sign in as you, pass the account on, or sell it. If you no longer want the account, cancel it — it is not yours to hand over.
• An API key is a credential, not a license. Holding several keys does not widen what your license permits — keys exist so you can separate your own applications, environments and budgets. Keep them secret, never publish or commit them, and never sell or rent access to them.
• You remain responsible for everything done with your account and your keys, including use by anyone you gave them to. If a key is exposed, revoke it in your dashboard and issue a new one.

A business license is held by the organization rather than by an individual, so the people working for it are covered without anyone sharing a personal login.

If you are not sure

Ask us before you build. We would far rather size the right agreement with you than discover a mismatch later. Use that is materially outside your license is a breach of these terms and may lead to suspension under Suspension and termination; we will always raise it with you first.

10. Web content and third-party rights

Blopus operates a crawler that visits publicly accessible web pages, and builds a search index from them. We return links and short extracts so you can find and cite the source. This is how web search has always worked, and it sends traffic to the sites we index.

• We do not claim ownership of third-party content that appears in results.
• We do not crawl content behind logins or paywalls.
• Content in results belongs to whoever published it, and their own terms and copyright apply to it.
• You are responsible for how you use content returned by Blopus. If you republish, store or train on material you find through the service, it is your responsibility to have the rights to do so.

11. Removal requests and DMCA

If you own or operate a website and you want it removed from our index, or our crawler is causing you a problem, write to the address in our Privacy Policy. Tell us the domain and how you would like it handled. We aim to respond within 10 business days. There is no charge, there is no form to fill in, and you do not need a lawyer.

We can also reduce our crawl rate on your site, or stop crawling it entirely, if you would rather stay indexed but ease the load. Just ask.

Copyright claims

To submit a copyright notice under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, write to the legal address in Contact with: identification of the work, the URL where it appears in our service, your contact details, a statement of good faith belief, a statement made under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act, and your signature.

We remove or disable material in response to valid notices, and we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

12. Intellectual property

Ours: the Blopus software, crawler, index, ranking systems, SDKs, documentation, brand and site design belong to Blopus Labs LLC. These terms grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the service, and nothing more.

Yours: your queries, your applications and your data remain yours. We claim no ownership of them, and we do not use your queries to train models.

13. Availability and support

We work to keep Blopus fast and available, but we do not offer a contractual uptime guarantee or service level agreement on self-serve plans. The service may be unavailable during maintenance, incidents, or events outside our control.

Support is provided through the console. Vibe Coder and Agentic Pro include priority handling. If you need a formal SLA, contact us about a custom agreement.

14. Disclaimer of warranties

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

In particular, we do not warrant that search results will be complete, accurate, current, or suitable for any purpose, or that third-party content reached through the service is lawful or correct. Search indexes are inherently partial and the web changes constantly.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill.
• Our total liability for any and all claims relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for anything that cannot lawfully be limited.

16. Indemnification

You agree to defend and hold us harmless from claims, damages and reasonable legal costs arising from your use of the service, your breach of these terms, or your use of content obtained through the service, except to the extent the claim is caused by our own wrongdoing.

17. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms, including the competitive use restrictions in section 8, that puts the service or other customers at risk, or that has unpaid invoices. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will warn you first and give you a chance to fix the problem.

You may close your account at any time. On termination your right to use the service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive, including intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, indemnity and governing law, continue to apply.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change is material we will give you notice by email or in the console at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the new terms. If you do not accept them, cancel before they take effect.

We will not change the price of a period you have already paid for.

19. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules. The state and federal courts located in Collin County, Texas have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties consent to that venue.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the United Kingdom, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer law in your country of residence, or of the right to bring proceedings there.

Talk to us first. Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us using the details in Contact. Most problems are solved quickly by email.

20. General

• Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the service.
• Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a right once does not waive it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these terms without our consent. We may assign them to a successor of our business.
• Independent parties. Nothing here creates a partnership, agency or employment relationship.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

21. Contact

Support, billing and account questions are handled in the support console, which keeps the conversation attached to your account and gets you a faster answer than email.

Formal legal notices and copyright claims: [email protected].

Privacy, data requests and removal from the index: use the address in our Privacy Policy.

Blopus Labs LLC
Frisco, Texas, United States