GoDaddy AI Terms 2026: Credits Expire in a Year and Do Not Roll Over

Every hosting company now sells AI features, and almost all of them sit under a separate contract from the one you agreed to when you bought the hosting. We read GoDaddy's AI Terms of Use on its Indian site on 15 October 2026 — the document governing "any Services consisting of AI products, features, bots, agents, services and/or tools".

It is a more candid document than most. It says Output "may be objectionable or contain bias", that it may be "inaccurate, misleading, or false", and that you should "seek independent professional advice before you rely on any Output". Those are useful warnings and GoDaddy deserves credit for printing them.

The clauses worth reading before you buy anything, though, are the ones about credits, about who owns the output, and about who is responsible when an AI bot talks to your customers. All three are below, quoted verbatim.

AI Credits are the currency of GoDaddy's AI features — we priced the allowance on its builder plans separately — and this agreement is the contract behind that number. Eight separate clauses govern them, and every one runs in the same direction.

Read together, the effect is specific: credits are a consumable with a twelve-month shelf life, priced at GoDaddy's discretion, consumed at a rate GoDaddy may change, measured by a meter the agreement makes "authoritative", and forfeited if you leave.

None of that is unusual for a metered software service, and the agreement states the expiry as a plain number rather than burying it in a definitions section — which is better practice than many comparable documents. One clause actively helps the customer: where several balances exist, "GoDaddy may apply usage against the credits that expire first." The reason to read it carefully is simpler than any criticism: an annual credit block is a use-it-or-lose-it purchase, and the contract says so.

The ownership clause is generous on its face: "As between you and GoDaddy, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input and (b) own the Output. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output."

Note "if any". The next sentence explains it: "GoDaddy does not represent or warrant that your Output can be protected by copyright or any other intellectual property right."

And a few lines later: "Outputs may not be unique across users and the AI Services may generate the same or similar Outputs for other user[s]." If you are generating a logo, a tagline or site copy, that is the sentence to sit with — not because GoDaddy is doing anything improper by saying it, but because it is an honest description of how these systems behave, and a brand asset that another customer may also receive is a different kind of asset from one you commissioned.

Whether AI-generated material attracts copyright at all is genuinely unsettled in India and in most jurisdictions, and this page takes no position on it. GoDaddy is declining to warrant a question nobody can currently answer, which is a reasonable thing for a contract to do.

Auto-Publish posts AI Output directly to your website, blog or social accounts "without any human intervention". The agreement is explicit about what follows: "GoDaddy has no control over the Output and does not review any Output prior to or after it is posted"; "You are the sole publisher of all output that is published to Your Properties"; and "You will review all Output immediately after it is posted by the Auto-Publish to Your Properties and immediately remove any inappropriate content."

There is also a consent-by-silence clause: "In some instances, GoDaddy may provide you with a notice prior to Output being published ... If you do not cancel or change the Output pursuant to such notice, you are authorizing publication of the Output as is."

Bots go further, because they talk to your customers. The agreement's own example of what can go wrong is the most quotable line in the document: "Bot responses may contain erroneous or outdated information. Such erroneous responses could include promises, offers, claims, or other representations to your customers on your behalf that you may be required to stand behind."

It adds that "GoDaddy does not review Bot responses", that you "remain fully responsible for all Output made by a Bot", and that "Bots are not qualified to replace professional services." A small business switching on an AI chat agent is, by this contract, underwriting everything it says. The document says so clearly rather than hiding it, which is the point of reading it before the feature goes live.

Training. The authorisation is explicit: you authorise GoDaddy and its third-party providers to store and use Input "to develop and improve the services and products of GoDaddy and such service providers' Third-Party AI Technology, including as part of the design, training and development process for machine learning models." GoDaddy "assumes no responsibility for Third-Party AI Technology", and you "expressly release GoDaddy from any and all liability arising from your use" of it. The third parties are not named in this document.

Marketing. A separate clause covers Input and Output together as "Content": "We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services, comply with applicable law, enforce our terms and policies, to market and advertise our Services and keep our Services safe."

Business use only. This one is easy to walk past and worth noticing: "You must only use AI Services for business, trade, or professional purposes and not for private, personal or household use." A clause of that shape appears in several GoDaddy documents — the Universal Terms read for blog 1960 treats every customer as a business customer too.

Audit. "We reserve the right to audit your use of AI Services to ensure compliance with the Agreement. Failure to cooperate with such audits may result in suspension or termination of your access." And separately, GoDaddy "reserve[s] the right to suspend or terminate your access to our AI Services or delete your account at our sole discretion."

The ceiling is stated in capitals and in dollars: "IN NO EVENT SHALL [GODADDY]'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE AI SERVICES OR ANY OUTPUTS CREATED USING THE AI SERVICES EXCEED $10,000.00 U.S. DOLLARS." It is stated to survive termination.

Above it sits the acknowledgement that explains why the cap is there: "YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT OUTPUTS OF THE AI SERVICES HAVE NOT BEEN REVIEWED FOR ACCURACY, BIAS, EXPLAINABILITY OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS CLEARANCE."

And the obligations the agreement puts on the customer are the sensible ones, stated plainly: "You must perform a human evaluation of the Output to ensure accuracy, truthfulness, and appropriateness for your use case before using or sharing Output"; "You must not remove or alter any AI related or other disclosures incorporated by GoDaddy into the Output"; and "YOU SHOULD SEEK INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL ADVICE BEFORE YOU RELY ON ANY OUTPUT."

That last instruction is the one worth taking literally, and it applies to this page as much as to anything an AI writes. This is a description of what a published contract says. It is not legal advice, and it does not tell you what your rights or obligations are in any particular case. Read the live version that applies to your own account, and take your own advice, before relying on it.