MLSoma - User Agreement
Last updated: 4 November 2026
This agreement is between you and MLSoma ("MLSoma", "we", "us"), the maker of the MLSoma desktop application. By choosing "I accept the agreement" - in the installer, or in MLSoma when it first starts - or by creating an MLSoma account, you agree to it. If you do not agree, do not accept it, do not create an account, and do not install or use MLSoma.
It covers the MLSoma application ("MLSoma" or "the app") and, if you use them, MLSoma accounts, Premium, the Market and our website (together with the app, "the services"). Some features may come with their own terms, shown where you use them; where those differ from this agreement, they govern that feature.
Please read it carefully. If you are under 18, read it with a parent or guardian (see section 7).
1. What MLSoma is
MLSoma is a desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux that runs artificial intelligence models on your own computer: language models for chat and writing, and models for speech, music, images, video and 3D. It can also train and fine-tune models, search the web for a chat when you turn that on, and connect to model hubs to find and download models and datasets.
MLSoma does not make or include the models. You choose which models to download or point it at, and they run on your hardware. What a model produces depends on that model and on what you give it, not on us.
Most of MLSoma works without an account and without an internet connection. An MLSoma account is optional. Premium, a paid plan, adds services that run through our servers, such as the Market (section 8). Which services exist, and what they include, can change as MLSoma develops; when a change takes away something you have paid for, we will tell you in the app or by email before it happens. We do not promise that every service is available in every country.
2. The license
The MLSoma software is licensed to you under the PolyForm Small Business License 1.0.0, a copy of which comes with MLSoma as LICENSE.md and can be read at https://polyformproject.org/licenses/small-business/1.0.0. In short, and without replacing its terms: you may use, copy, change and share MLSoma for any purpose if you are an individual, or if your company has fewer than 100 people working for it (employees and independent contractors) and less than 1,000,000 US dollars (2019, adjusted for inflation) of revenue in the prior tax year. Anyone who shares MLSoma must pass on its license and its "Required Notice" line. Where this agreement and the license differ, the license governs what you may do with the software itself.
A company larger than that needs a commercial license from us: see https://mlsoma.com.
The license covers the software only. Our servers, the services and your access to them are not licensed to you to copy, resell or offer to others; sections 7 and 10 cover them. The MLSoma name and logo are covered in section 13.
3. Models and other people's work
The model files you download or point MLSoma at - language, speech, image and video models, LoRAs, datasets - belong to their makers and come with their own licenses and terms, which can be stricter than ours (many models forbid commercial use, some forbid particular uses altogether). You are responsible for having the right to use each model and dataset you use, in the way you use it. The same holds for pictures, sounds, documents and other material you give MLSoma to work with.
4. What you make
Your prompts, files and other material you give MLSoma ("inputs") and what the models produce from them ("outputs") are yours, as far as the law and the terms of the model you used allow. We claim no rights in them. Outputs may not be unique: the same model can give other people the same or similar results.
You are responsible for your inputs and outputs and for what you do with them. Do not use MLSoma or the services to make or spread anything unlawful, including: sexual material involving minors; sexual or intimate images of a real person without their consent; material that defames, harasses, threatens or impersonates a real person; material that promotes terrorism or violent extremism; instructions for committing a serious crime; or material that infringes someone else's rights.
If you publish what MLSoma makes, check it first, and do not present it as made by a person, or as showing a real person or event, when it was generated by AI and doing so would mislead people.
5. Your privacy
MLSoma runs on your computer. Your files, prompts, conversations, models and what MLSoma makes stay on your computer and are not sent to us, except what you choose to send through the Market (section 8). We do not read them, and we do not train anything on them. MLSoma keeps what it stores in the .mlsoma folder in your user folder (%USERPROFILE%\.mlsoma on Windows, ~/.mlsoma on macOS and Linux); uninstalling MLSoma leaves that folder in place so that nothing you made is lost.
MLSoma connects to the internet only when you use a feature that needs to - searching for or downloading models and datasets from a hub, searching the web in a chat, linking an account with a hub, signing in to your MLSoma account, using the Market, or checking for and downloading updates - and then only to the service involved, under that service's own terms. A check for updates tells our release host which version and platform you have, because that is what asking for a file requires.
If you have an MLSoma account, our servers hold your email address, a hash of your password (never the password), your plan and its state, identifiers from our payment provider, your Soma balance and its history, and the devices signed in. They also keep a security log, described in section 10. We keep this for as long as you have an account, except the sign-in history, which is deleted after 90 days.
With Premium, MLSoma can send us an error report from its log when you choose to - never on its own. Your machine removes what it can before it leaves: your home folder becomes "~", anything shaped like a key, token, password, email address or local network address is masked, and prompt, chat and file content is cut out of the log lines. What arrives is the error, the lines around it, the app version, your operating system, a summary of your graphics card, and any note you wrote.
Some companies we use to run the services see part of this: Stripe handles payments and holds what a payment needs (we never see your card details), and Cloudflare serves our website, downloads and Market files. They act for us, under their own terms. We send our email from our own servers. We do not sell your data, and we do not give it to anyone else except where the law requires it.
Our website, mlsoma.com, can show advertising from Google, which uses cookies to choose and measure ads only if you choose "Accept all" when the website asks. What the website collects, and how to change that choice, are explained at https://mlsoma.com/privacy.
To ask for a copy of what we hold, to correct it, or to have your account and its data deleted, write to us (section 21).
6. Your computer
Training and generation can keep your graphics card and processor fully busy for long periods and can fill a good deal of disk space. Make sure your computer is able to do this safely; you are responsible for the hardware you run MLSoma on and for its power and cooling.
7. Your account and Premium
MLSoma is not for children under 13. If you are under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, you may use MLSoma only with the permission of a parent or guardian, and only they may buy Premium or Soma for you. We do not knowingly keep data about children under 13.
An MLSoma account is for one person: you. Create it with your own, real email address; we may refuse or close accounts made with false details or made in bulk. Keep your password and sign-in codes to yourself, sign out of devices you no longer use, and tell us straight away if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for everything done with your account, except what happens because of our own fault.
Do not share your account with anyone, and do not let anyone else use it, its sessions, its sign-in codes, its access tokens or its API keys. Do not sell, rent, lend, resell, sublicense or otherwise pass on access to your account, to Premium or to anything Premium gives you, and do not offer them to others as part of a product or service of your own.
Sign in only on devices that are yours, or that your organisation gives you to use yourself. An organisation's account belongs to one named person, the license holder, and only that person may use it; an organisation that wants Premium for several people needs an account for each of them.
Premium is personal to the account holder and is not transferable: it cannot be moved to another person or another account, and selling or giving away an account does not pass it on. Premium is paid for in advance, by the month or by the year, through our payment provider, Stripe. A monthly subscription renews every month until you cancel it, which you can do at any time with "Manage subscription" on your account page. A yearly subscription renews every year if you chose that when you bought it; you can turn renewal on or off on your account page at any time, and a year that is not renewed ends when the year paid for ends.
You can delete your account at any time. When you do, we delete what we hold about you, except what the law requires us to keep, and records we need to deal with a breach of this agreement that happened before.
8. The Market
The Market, part of Premium, lets members offer work to each other: running a step of a design on their computer for another member, or delivering files someone asked for. It is paid for in Soma.
- Soma is bought on our website in packs, at 100 Soma for each US dollar, with tax added at checkout. It can be used only for the Market; it is not money, cannot be exchanged for money or withdrawn, and cannot be moved to another account. Soma you have bought is not refunded, except where the law requires it or where this section says so.
- A provider sets the price of what they offer. Each use costs the buyer that price plus a fee of 1 Soma to MLSoma, shown before you confirm. The Soma is held when you send the work, paid to the provider only when a valid result comes back, and refunded in full, fee included, if it fails, is cancelled or takes too long.
- When you use a provider, the files the work needs - your inputs, and the model or design it runs - are sent to that provider's computer, through our storage. Send only what you are allowed to share, and nothing you need to keep private.
- When you provide, you run other members' work on your own computer and at your own risk, and you must deliver what you offered. You may refuse work that would break this agreement or the law.
- We check files that pass through the Market against rules on what kinds of files are allowed and against reports from members, and we may hold back, remove or keep for review anything that breaks this agreement or the law, and report it where the law requires.
Market deals are between the members involved. We run the Market and hold the Soma while work is under way, but we are not a party to what members agree, and we do not check or guarantee what a provider delivers.
9. AI output
Outputs come from the models you choose. They are not statements, advice or opinions of MLSoma, and a model mentioning a product, service or person does not mean we endorse it. Outputs can be wrong, incomplete, out of date, biased or offensive, and searching the web in a chat does not make them reliable. Do not treat them as professional advice: for medical, legal, financial and other professional questions, ask a qualified person.
If you use outputs to make decisions that affect other people - about credit, education, employment, housing, insurance, health, legal matters or anything else important to them - a person must review them first, and you are responsible for those decisions.
Outputs may include links to, or content from, other websites. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for them; following a link is at your own risk.
10. Fair use, security and enforcement
Do not get around, or try to get around, the limits of your plan or of the services, or the ways we detect and prevent abuse - for example by using several accounts to get what one account gets, by sharing one account between several people, by changing or disguising devices or network addresses to avoid our checks, or by creating or signing in to accounts automatically. Do not interfere with, overload, probe, scan or attack our servers or the services, do not access accounts, data or servers you are not allowed to, do not spread malware through them, and do not scrape or copy the services or other members' content by automated means.
To keep accounts secure and to enforce this agreement, our servers record, for each account, the devices signed in to it (their name, kind and when they were last used) and, for sign-ups, sign-ins, device approvals, password resets and session refreshes, the IP address they came from, the app or browser that made them, and when. We use automated checks on these records to detect account sharing, reselling, stolen accounts and other abuse, and we look into what they find. The history of sign-ins is deleted after 90 days. We use these records only for security, to enforce this agreement and where the law requires it, and we do not sell them.
We can only see what reaches our servers. What you do with MLSoma on your own computer, offline, we do not see and do not monitor.
11. Other people's services and content
MLSoma works with things we do not run: model hubs such as Hugging Face and ModelScope, the models, LoRAs and datasets on them, the people who made those, web search providers, our payment provider, other members of the Market, and any hub or feed you add yourself. We do not own, check, endorse or control any of it. What you get from them is between you and them, under their terms, and they can change, break, charge for or withdraw it at any time. If one of them is unavailable, serves you the wrong thing, or takes or loses your data, that is not something we are responsible for.
MLSoma also includes open-source software from other people, listed in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt that comes with MLSoma, which comes under its own licenses and with its own absence of warranty.
12. Feedback and complaints
If you think something in MLSoma or the services infringes your rights, see something on the Market that breaks this agreement or the law, or have a question or a suggestion, write to us (section 21); on the Market you can also report a delivery from the app. We look into every report. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without owing you anything for them.
13. The MLSoma name and logo
MLSoma, the MLSoma logo and our other names and marks are ours. The license in section 2 does not give you the right to use them. You may use the name to refer to MLSoma truthfully - for example to say that something works with MLSoma - but not in a way that suggests we made, sponsor or endorse something we did not, and not in the name of your own product, company or domain without our written permission. If you share a changed copy of MLSoma, make clear that it is changed and not from us.
14. No warranty
MLSoma and the services are provided "as is" and "as available", without any warranty or condition of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, satisfactory quality, title and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not promise that MLSoma or the services will meet your needs, be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, or that faults will be fixed, or that what they produce is accurate, lawful or fit for your purpose; the services may at times be unavailable. You decide whether MLSoma suits what you are doing, and you keep your own backups.
15. Limits on our liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary loss, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business, lost goodwill, or lost, corrupted or unrecoverable data, models or work, however it arises and under any kind of legal claim, even if we were told it might happen.
To the fullest extent the law allows, everything we could owe you, added together, for anything arising out of this agreement or out of MLSoma, the services or what is made with them, is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or 100 US dollars.
Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits anything that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited - for example liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud - and some places do not allow the exclusions above, so they may not apply to you. Where you have consumer rights under the law of the place you live, this agreement does not take them away.
16. What you cover us for
You are responsible for how you use MLSoma and the services, for the models, datasets and material you use with them, and for what you make and then do with it. If someone brings a claim against us because of any of that, or because you broke this agreement or the law - including a claim that what you used or made infringes their rights, or breaks the terms of a model or hub - you will cover our reasonable losses, damages and legal costs from it, provided we tell you about the claim and let you take part in dealing with it. This does not apply to anything caused by us, and applies only as far as the law allows.
17. Export controls and sanctions
MLSoma, the services and what you make with them may be subject to export control and sanctions laws. You may not use them in, or send them to, a country under comprehensive sanctions, or use them if you are on a sanctions or restricted-party list, or for any purpose those laws forbid. You are responsible for following those laws where they apply to you.
18. Ending this agreement
This agreement lasts as long as you use MLSoma or the services. You may stop using MLSoma, cancel Premium and delete your account at any time. The license in section 2 ends as its own terms say.
If you break this agreement - sections 4, 7, 8 and 10 in particular - or we have good reason to believe you have, we may warn you, limit what your account can do, sign your devices out, remove what you put on the Market, suspend or close your account, refuse a new one, and end your Premium. Where it is reasonable we will tell you why and give you a chance to explain first. Premium or Soma lost because an account is suspended or closed for breaking this agreement is not refunded, in whole or in part, except where the law says otherwise. If you think we got it wrong, write to us.
19. Changes to this agreement
We may change this agreement, for example when MLSoma or the services change or the law requires it. When we do, MLSoma asks you to accept the new version before you go on using it, and the website shows it with its date. If you do not accept it, stop using MLSoma and the services; you can delete your account, and if the change takes away something you have paid for, write to us.
20. Law
MLSoma is used around the world, so this agreement does not pick one country's law. It is governed by the law of the country where you live, and you can bring a claim about it in the courts there. Before going to court, write to us (section 21) and we will try to settle it with you. If part of it cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a part of it straight away, we have not given it up.
21. Contact
MLSoma - https://mlsoma.com
Email: [email protected]