# Licensing and pricing

> Arieta Data is licensed annually in three paid tiers, plus a free sample. Commercial and Foundation / Lab licences include 12 months of monthly updates and a perpetual right to the snapshots received; Research / Startup licences include updates for the term and data is deleted on expiry. Licence agreement on request: the Arieta Data Master Data Licence (English law, with tier schedules). We send it with your sample and quote; the final text is agreed with you before the first invoice. Licensed deliveries are prepared within 5⁠–⁠6 business days.

| Tier | Indicative price | For | Includes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Open sample | Free upstream licences per record | Evaluating fit, academic work, demos. | 1,233 records · 54 document histories (114 versions) · 2,017 typed edges, same schema as the licensed snapshot; Includes the GDPR, AI Act, Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act; Each record carries its own upstream licence and attribution; Arieta’s structure and metadata under CC BY 4.0; Download now (.jsonl.gz), no sign-up |
| Research / Startup | from €7,000 per year | Companies under about 50 staff, research labs. | Corpus, history and graph for the lanes you choose; Internal R&D, evals and fine-tuning; RAG behind your product for internal use and pilots; Monthly updates for the licence term |
| Commercial | from €18,000 per year | Legal-AI products in production. | Everything in Research; Production RAG and fine-tuned models in your hosted services; 12 months of monthly updates; Perpetual right to delivered snapshots |
| Foundation / Lab | from €50,000 per year · custom terms | Foundation-model developers and AI labs. | Everything in Commercial; Pre-training and distribution in model weights; Custom exports, cuts and delivery; Perpetual right to delivered snapshots |

## Rights matrix (paid tiers)

| Right | Research / Startup | Commercial | Foundation / Lab |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Internal R&D, evaluation and benchmarking | Included | Included | Included |
| Fine-tuning | Internal use | Included | Included |
| RAG behind your own product | Internal and pilots | Included | Included |
| Models served from your hosted services | Pilots only | Included | Included |
| Pre-training | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Release or sell model weights | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Redistribution of Arieta’s dataset | Not included | Not included | Not included |
| Perpetual right to delivered snapshots | Delete on expiry* | Included | Included |

The free sample follows each record's upstream licence; Arieta's structure and metadata in the sample are CC BY 4.0.

## Updates

- **Updates.** Commercial and Foundation / Lab licences include 12 months of monthly delta snapshots: new and changed records (upserts), tombstones for withdrawn ones, and a fresh MANIFEST.json. Research / Startup licences include updates for the licence term.
- **Perpetual right (Commercial, Foundation / Lab).** Every snapshot delivered during a Commercial or Foundation / Lab licence stays licensed to you after the year ends, under the same tier rights. Tombstone obligations continue. Research / Startup data is deleted on expiry, except CC BY and share-alike records.
- **Renewal.** Renewing for another 12 months of updates costs about 40–50% of the first year.

## Key terms

- **No redistribution of Arieta’s dataset.** Licensees may not pass the dataset, or a substantial part of it, to third parties as a dataset, API or embedding dump. This covers Arieta’s structure, metadata, version history and citation graph, and lanes that are not under an open licence. Verbatim text from CC BY lanes stays under CC BY 4.0, which the licence does not restrict; those records are marked in every shard.
- **Tombstone compliance.** When an upstream source withdraws a document, the next monthly delta carries a tombstone. Licensees must delete tombstoned records from their copies of the dataset, indexes and caches.
- **Upstream attribution passes through.** Every record carries its source, licence and attribution, and each snapshot ships LICENCES.md. Where you publish material from the dataset, keep the attribution the upstream licence requires.
- **Statutory restrictions pass through.** Some restrictions come from law, not from a licence. In France, reusing the identity data of judges and court clerks to evaluate, analyse, compare or predict their professional practice is a criminal offence (art. L111-13 Code de l’organisation judiciaire). The licence passes such restrictions on.
- **Not the authentic text.** The dataset is a structured derivative of official publications. Only each official journal or gazette is legally authentic; consolidated texts are for information in most systems.
- **Share-alike stays separate.** Italian Corte costituzionale decisions are CC BY-SA 3.0. They are delivered masked like the rest of national case law, as a separate CC BY-SA 3.0 file, never inside the main shards.

## For procurement

| Item | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| Contracting entity | Arieta Labs Ltd, England & Wales, company no. 16629785 |
| Governing law | England and Wales |
| Data protection | Controller-to-controller data-protection terms in the licence agreement, sent on request |
| Delivery | Parquet (zstd) and gzip JSONL with MANIFEST.json (SHA-256 per shard), DATASHEET.md and LICENCES.md; signed download or your bucket, within 5⁠–⁠6 business days |
| Updates | Monthly deltas; upstream withdrawals are reflected as tombstones in the next delta |
| Personal data | No raw upstream HTML; national case law delivered with personal data masked |
| Website | No cookies; cookie-free Cloudflare Web Analytics only |
| Certifications | None claimed |

## FAQ

### Can I see the licence before I buy?

Yes. The licence agreement and your tier schedule are sent on request, with your sample and quote. The master licence is under legal review, and the final text is agreed with you before the first invoice; prices on this page are indicative.

### Can we evaluate CJEU case law before licensing?

Yes. A CJEU case-law excerpt is available under an evaluation licence on request, prepared within 5⁠–⁠6 business days. Case law is not in the open sample, which is legislation only. Email us with the subject “Arieta Data: CJEU evaluation excerpt”. National case law is delivered with personal data masked; tell us which courts you need.

### Can I pre-train a foundation model on the data?

Yes, on the Foundation / Lab tier, which covers pre-training and distribution in model weights. Research and Commercial tiers cover fine-tuning, RAG and evals.

### What happens when my licence ends?

Commercial and Foundation / Lab licensees keep a perpetual right to every snapshot delivered during the licence, under their tier’s rights, and stop receiving updates. Research / Startup licensees delete the data on expiry, except CC BY and share-alike records. Tombstone obligations continue in every case.

### What is a tombstone and what do I have to do?

A tombstone marks a record its upstream source withdrew, often for personal-data reasons. When a delta contains tombstones, you must delete those records from your copies of the dataset.

### Can I buy only some jurisdictions?

Yes. Licences can be cut per jurisdiction, language, date range or document type, prepared within 5⁠–⁠6 business days. Research licences are priced by the lanes you choose; Commercial and Lab licences usually include all released lanes, and the order form lists them.

### Can I redistribute the data?

Not Arieta’s dataset: its structure, metadata, history and graph stay under the licence. Verbatim text from CC BY lanes stays redistributable under CC BY 4.0, and each record says which licence applies.

### Do you hold security or compliance certifications?

No. We do not claim any certification. We document how the data is produced, what is excluded and why, on the [Provenance](https://data.arietalabs.com/provenance/) page.