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Terms of service

Longtake is a studio for shooting AI video: projects, scenes, takes, characters whose voice stays the same between scenes. The subscription pays for the studio. The renders themselves run on your own provider keys, at the provider's own price — we add nothing on top, except for renders paid with studio credit (section 10).

In force since 10 November 2026

1. Who you are dealing with

The studio is operated by IE Pavel Ilin. Contact for anything in this document, including notices and complaints: hello@longtake.studio. By using Longtake you accept these terms; if you don't accept them, don't use it.

2. The account

You sign in with Google or Apple, or with a link sent to your email address. One person, one account; keep access to it safe. Everything created under your account is yours to manage — and yours to answer for. The studio is not for people under 16.

3. Free use, and what the subscription covers

The studio itself is free to use: sign in, add your own provider keys and shoot. There is no trial period, because the tools are not behind the payment at all. Model tokens are never included either way — the providers bill them directly to your keys, and what a take costs there is what it costs you. There is an exception: a render paid with studio credit (section 10).

What a subscription buys is that your work stays. Without one, a project is open for 24 hours from the moment it is created; after that it locks — the files stay on our servers, but the project cannot be opened or added to — and 7 days after it was created it is deleted permanently, together with its takes, assets, characters and images. Deletion cannot be undone, so download what you want to keep while the project is open; once it has locked, the way back is a subscription. The studio shows both dates on the project. A project opened from an Academy lesson or holding a take from one stays open for 30 days and is deleted 37 days after it was created. Projects that existed before this rule took effect started their clock on the day it did.

• €9.99 per month or €95.99 per year on the web; in the iOS app, the price the App Store shows for your country. A subscription unlocks every project on the account and stops the clock on all of them, including projects that have already locked.
• An account that has ever paid gets a longer clock, not an endless one: if a subscription lapses, its projects lock on the usual schedule, and they are deleted 90 days after the paid period ended. The studio shows that date on the project, and the iPhone and iPad app sends a notification 14 days before it; we do not send emails about it, so check the date on the project. Paying for a single month unlocks everything again, which is also the way to download work from a locked project. Your statutory right to a copy of your personal data is not affected: see Privacy.
• The Supercomputer. The project's assistant — a chat that helps with the idea, the shots and the prompt of each take — works with a subscription only. It runs on your own key — Claude (Anthropic), OpenAI or OpenRouter, by the model its conversation runs on — at that provider's price; it never renders or spends anything itself. A take, a character's mockup sheet or a plate it offers is made only when you press its button, on your keys or your studio credit (section 10), at the same price as anywhere else in the studio.
• Storage. A free account holds 300 MB of takes, references and frames; a subscription raises that to 20 GB. When the limit is reached the studio refuses new renders and uploads — it never deletes anything to make room.
• Cancel any time: on the web from the account menu, in the iOS app in your App Store subscription settings (the app's Account › Subscription leads there). Access continues to the end of the period already paid for.
• On the web, payments are handled by Stripe, and the subscription renews automatically each period at the price you chose until you cancel. In the iOS app, the subscription is bought through the App Store: Apple charges your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, the subscription renews automatically at the same price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and the renewal is charged within those last 24 hours. If a payment fails, the subscription lapses and its projects go back on the clock described above; the studio itself keeps working.
• If something goes wrong on our side, write to us — refunds are handled case by case; a refund for an App Store purchase is Apple's to grant. Nothing here limits rights you have by law.
• Prices can change. We will announce a change before it applies to you, and it never affects a period already paid for — you can always cancel instead.

The iOS app itself is licensed to you under Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement; these terms cover the studio it works with.

4. Your keys, your providers

The studio sends your prompts and references to the provider you choose (BytePlus, Google, Kling, fal.ai, OpenAI, OpenRouter; for the Supercomputer — Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter, by the model its conversation runs on) using your key. Those providers set their own prices, limits, content rules and moderation. We can't overrule a refusal, restore tokens spent on a bad take, or promise a model will keep behaving as it does today.

The keys are yours, and so is everything spent through them: keep them safe, watch your provider balance, and remove a key from the studio if you no longer want it used. We are not a party to your agreement with a provider.

Some Academy lessons let you render a take on the studio's own provider key, at no cost to you. The same content rules apply to those takes, the allowance is limited, and we may change or stop it.

5. What you may not do

• Break the law, or the providers' rules, through the studio.
• Depict a living person, or imitate a person's voice, without their consent.
• Make sexual, defamatory or deceptive material about any real person, living or not.
• Upload content you have no right to use — including photos or voice samples of people who have not agreed to it — or use the studio to infringe someone's rights.
• Try to bypass moderation, resell access, or automate abuse of the service.

We may suspend an account that does these things.

6. Your work

Your prompts, uploads and takes remain yours; we claim no rights to them and do not use them to train anything. You give us only the permission the service needs: to store your work, process it, and pass it to the provider you chose to render it. Whether a generated video can be used commercially — and who holds what — follows the terms of the provider that rendered it. We store your work so the studio can show it to you, and delete it when you delete it, when its time under section 3 runs out, or when your account is deleted.

7. Availability

The studio is a small, actively developed product. It can be down for maintenance, a provider can be unavailable, a feature can change. We don't promise uptime, and we recommend downloading takes you care about.

8. Liability

The service is provided as is. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses, lost profit, tokens spent on results you didn't like, or content produced by third-party models. Nothing here removes liability that cannot be excluded by law.

9. Changes, law and ending

These terms can change; the date at the top will change with them. You can stop using the service at any time — cancel the subscription and, if you want, ask us to delete the account. We may suspend or close an account that breaks section 5, and we will say why.

These terms are governed by the law of Georgia, where the operator is registered. If you are a consumer in another country, this does not take away the protections your local law gives you. Let's try to sort out any disagreement by email first — it is faster than anything else.

10. Invitations and studio credit

Every account has a personal invitation link of the form longtake.studio/?ref=CODE and the code itself. A friend can also enter the code by hand within 7 days after signing up, before their first payment. An invited account is a new account that has never held a subscription.

• What your friend gets. 25% off their first subscription payment on the web, on any plan, monthly or yearly. The discount is applied at checkout once the invitation is attached to the account, so a code entered by hand has to come before the payment. It is not available in the App Store.
• What earns a reward. The reward comes from your friend's first subscription payment on the web. App Store purchases do not count yet. The invitation discount is the only discount that payment may carry: if it used a promo code or any other discount, there is no reward, and a later payment does not earn one either. The payment has to be made within 180 days after your friend signed up.
• How much. You get 25% of what your friend paid for it, before tax, as studio credit in US dollars, at the European Central Bank's euro reference rate in force at the moment of the payment: the last rate the ECB published before it (it publishes one each working day at about 16:00 Frankfurt time). With the invitation discount that is about $2.06 for a monthly plan and $19.80 for a yearly one at a rate of $1.10 per euro. The number of friends you can invite is not limited.
• When the credit arrives. The credit is added 14 days after the payment, if the payment has not been refunded or disputed. A refund, a dispute or your friend deleting their account within those 14 days cancels the reward.
• How long it lasts. Credit is valid for 30 days from the day it is added and then expires. It is never paid back as money, cannot be withdrawn or passed to another person, and has no cash value.
• What it pays for. BytePlus only: renders on the Seedance and Seedream models and Seed Speech voice samples, in the web studio and through an agent token (MCP). Google, Kling, fal.ai and OpenRouter are paid with your own keys only. It does not pay for anything in the iPhone and iPad app yet. Credit is spent before your own key is used, except when a draft is finished in 1080p: the finish is paid the way its draft was. A render paid with credit costs the provider's list price plus 15%, rounded up. A render that fails or is rejected returns what it was charged.
• What is not allowed. Inviting yourself (including with a second account) and sending spam. The studio may switch off a code, cancel rewards obtained through abuse, and change or close the programme at any time. Credit that has already been added stays until it expires.
• Publishing your link. If you publish it openly, for example in posts or videos, say plainly that it is a referral link and that you receive a reward for it, and follow your country's rules on labelling advertising.

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