# Provider terms Which third-party terms apply to your hardware use through Pauli ([Terms of Service](https://pauli.xyz/terms) §8 and §9). Last updated: July 5, 2026. ## Your own provider credentials (BYOK) When you register your own provider credentials, your hardware use runs under **your** provider account and is governed by **your own agreement with that provider**, not by any agreement between Pauli and the provider. By registering credentials you make the representations in [Terms of Service §8](https://pauli.xyz/terms#provider-terms): you hold a valid direct agreement with the provider in your own name; that agreement and applicable law permit delegating access to third-party tooling, including credential storage or role assumption by Pauli; you bear all provider fees and provider-terms compliance, including any credential-sharing restrictions; you will revoke Pauli’s access at the provider when your use ends; and Pauli is not a party to your provider agreement. How Pauli handles registered credentials (operational disclosures, not warranties): credentials are validated against the live provider before they are stored, stored encrypted, and never returned by any endpoint. For AWS, Pauli stores no keys at all: you create a cross-account IAM role that Pauli assumes with a Pauli-issued external ID. A job whose credential is unusable fails rather than falling back to Pauli’s own provider accounts. Providers bill you directly for hardware; Pauli charges only its platform fee. ## Managed hardware (Pauli’s provider accounts) No managed-hardware provider agreement is in effect yet. As each agreement executes, this section will list that provider’s acceptable-use, security, data-handling, and export terms that flow down to your use of the provider’s hardware through Pauli’s accounts. ## Benchmark publication restrictions Per [Terms of Service §9](https://pauli.xyz/terms#benchmarks), you may publish results of jobs you run except where a provider’s terms restrict benchmark publication. No such restriction has been identified for the results Pauli currently publishes (IonQ cloud simulator runs, labeled as simulator, not QPU hardware). Per-provider restrictions or consents will be listed here as they are identified or agreed.