FreeTheAi is built to keep the free API usable, safe, and hard to abuse. We do not store your prompts, completions, uploaded images, or conversation history in our operational logs. We do log security and usage metadata so we can operate the service, enforce limits, debug failures, and fight abuse.
Effective date: May 31, 2026
The free API has to stop spam, duplicated accounts, stolen keys, proxy abuse, credential sharing, denial-of-service behavior, and clients that accidentally burn shared capacity. Metadata logging is how we verify users, enforce fair limits, investigate outages, and protect the community without storing private prompt or output content.
We use metadata to authenticate keys, apply rate limits, validate daily check-ins, detect abuse patterns, resolve public error IDs, measure reliability, and improve the API surface.
Retention depends on operational need. Normal logs may be rotated as systems are maintained; security, abuse, payment, or availability investigations may require keeping relevant metadata longer.
API requests and responses are transmitted through FreeTheAi and the model/service systems needed to complete your request. That transient processing is different from FreeTheAi storing prompt or output text as message logs. Do not send passwords, private keys, payment data, or other sensitive secrets to any AI API.