For teams buying AI & LLM vendors
AI contracts hide what matters: who trains on your data, what happens when the model is deprecated, who's liable for the output. Benchside profiles the major AI vendors and generates the questions and clauses generic procurement misses.
The problem
AI contracts shift risk to you
Broad rights to train on your data, liability disclaimers on outputs, and compliance burden on the buyer.
The model you buy isn't the model you keep
Deprecation and behaviour changes aren't governed by a standard uptime SLA.
Generic procurement wasn't built for AI
Model cards, training-data provenance, and explainability aren't on the old checklist.
The evidence
$1.5B
Training-data copyright settlement
A frontier vendor settled the largest copyright payout in US history. Only a third of AI vendors indemnify you for the exposure.
4 months
To burn a full-year AI budget
Token consumption is not a subscription. One enterprise exhausted its annual AI budget a third of the way through the year.
$30,141
Past a $100 alert that never fired
Marketplace billing bypasses standard cost-anomaly detection, so the safeguard you rely on does not cover AI spend.
5-6 wks
Of degraded output, SLA stayed green
Uptime SLAs exclude quality. A model can be 99.99% available while quietly getting worse, with no credits owed.
What you get
Your first project is free. No credit card required.
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