Terms of Use

CarbonBench, including its website, API, data pipeline, methodology, user interface, design system, and all associated intellectual property, is owned by Ned Karlovich. All rights reserved.

The public API endpoints at carbonbench.ai are provided free of charge for individual and non-commercial use. You may query the API to retrieve carbon intensity, cost, and performance data for AI inference models. You may display this data in your own applications with attribution.

Any public use of CarbonBench data must include visible attribution: "Data from CarbonBench (carbonbench.ai)" or a direct link to carbonbench.ai. This applies to blog posts, dashboards, research papers, presentations, and any other public-facing use of the data.

You may not:

• Redistribute CarbonBench data as a competing dataset or service
• Scrape the website or API to build a derivative product
• Remove or obscure attribution when displaying CarbonBench data
• Use the API for high-volume commercial routing without a paid API license
• Claim ownership of the methodology, calculations, or data pipeline

Carbon intensity data is sourced from Electricity Maps. GPU energy benchmarks are sourced from the AI Energy Score project and ML.Energy leaderboard. Provider pricing is collected from published pricing pages. While we strive for accuracy, CarbonBench provides data on an "as-is" basis. Carbon calculations are estimates based on available data and should not be used as the sole basis for regulatory compliance reporting.

Commercial use of the CarbonBench API — including programmatic carbon-aware inference routing, integration into enterprise platforms, or redistribution of data — requires a commercial API license. Contact ned@nedkarlovich.com for licensing enquiries.

The CarbonBench name, logo, design system, API structure, scoring methodology, and user interface are proprietary. The combination of real-time carbon data with GPU energy benchmarks and provider pricing into a unified carbon-per-token metric is an original methodology developed by Ned Karlovich.

These terms may be updated at any time. Continued use of the service constitutes acceptance of the current terms.