Terms of Service
Last updated: 15 August 2026 · Effective: 15 August 2026
1. Who we are, and what these Terms cover
Debut is an AI video generation service available at debut.video. You describe the video you want, an AI agent builds and iterates on a video project for you, and the Service generates the images, video, voice and music that go into it.
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a contract between you and Debut. They apply every time you access or use the Service, and they cover:
the account you create,
the projects and content you make with the Service,
the credits you buy or receive, and how they are spent,
what each of us is responsible for if something goes wrong.
Two further documents form part of these Terms and are incorporated into them by reference:
our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out what you may and may not make with the Service, and
our Privacy Policy, which explains what we do with personal data.
If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use the Service.
Debut is operated by Benjamin Soukiassian, Paris, France. Full publisher details are set out in our Legal Notice. Throughout these Terms, “Debut”, “we”, “us” and “our” mean that operator.
You can reach us at hello@debut.video for anything concerning these Terms.
2. Definitions
Term
Meaning
Service
The Debut application, its website, its API where offered, and everything we make available through them.
Account
Your personal login to the Service.
Project
A video project you create in the Service, including its chat history, its source code, its settings and its media.
Your Content
Everything you put into the Service: prompts, chat messages, briefs, instructions, uploaded images, video, audio and fonts, and any edits you make.
Output
Everything the Service generates for you: images, video clips, voices, music, sound effects, transcripts, project source code and rendered videos.
Credits
The unit in which the Service meters generation. See section 9.
Model Provider
A third party whose AI models the Service calls to produce Output. See section 7.
Consumer
A natural person acting outside their trade, business, craft or profession, as defined by EU consumer law.
3. Eligibility and your Account
Age. You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. If you are between 16 and the age of legal majority where you live, you may only use the Service with the authorisation of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the Service and for any amounts payable. We may ask for evidence of that authorisation and may suspend an Account until we receive it.
Accuracy. You agree to give us accurate registration information and to keep it up to date.
Access. Access to the Service is currently by invitation, through a waitlist. Being on the waitlist gives you no right to an Account, and we may grant, defer or decline access at our discretion.
One person, one Account. Your Account is personal to you. You are responsible for everything done through it and for keeping your sign-in method secure. Tell us at hello@debut.video as soon as you believe someone else has used your Account.
Sign-in. We sign you in with a one-time code sent to your email address, or through Google. You are responsible for keeping access to that email address.
4. What the Service does — and what it does not do
The Service builds a video project for you: an AI agent writes and edits a React/Remotion project, generates media through third-party models, assembles a timeline, and renders a finished video you can download.
To use the Service you need a current web browser and a reliable internet connection. Rendered videos are delivered as MP4 files at the resolutions and aspect ratios offered in the app. Project previews run in your browser while your project session is active.
What the Service is not. It is not a stock library, an editor for footage you supply, a broadcast delivery system, or an archival storage service. You should keep your own copy of anything you care about. We describe our storage and retention practices in the Privacy Policy, but the Service is not a backup, and we do not guarantee that any Project, Output or rendered video will remain available.
5. Your Content and your Projects
You keep your rights. You keep all rights you already have in Your Content. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of Your Content to us.
The licence you give us. So that we can run the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, adapt, process and transmit Your Content, for as long as we hold it and only for the following purposes:
(a) to operate and provide the Service to you, including storing your Projects and rendering your videos;
(b) to transmit Your Content to the Model Providers listed in our Privacy Policy so they can generate Output at your request;
(c) to diagnose and fix technical, security or abuse problems, and to respond to a support request you make;
(d) to enforce these Terms and the Acceptable Use Policy;
(e) to comply with the law; and
(f) to monitor, diagnose and improve the quality, cost and reliability of the Service, as described in our Privacy Policy.
That list is exhaustive. The licence ends when Your Content is deleted, except for copies retained in routine backups for the period described in the Privacy Policy.
We do not train models on your work. We do not use Your Content or your Output to train, fine-tune or improve any AI model, and we do not license Your Content to anyone for that purpose. What a Model Provider may do is governed by its own terms: we select providers on the basis that content sent through their APIs is not used for training, and we enable a no-training or zero-retention mode wherever one is offered. Section 8 of our Privacy Policy says who receives your Content and where they are, and we will give you the named list on request.
People can see your work in limited circumstances. A person at Debut can look at the content of a Project only where you have asked us for support, where we are investigating a specific report or signal of abuse or illegal content, where we are diagnosing a technical fault, or where the law requires it. We do not browse user projects for any other reason.
Your responsibility. You are responsible for Your Content and for having the rights you need in it — including rights in any image, footage, voice, music, logo, trade mark or person’s likeness you upload or refer to. You must not upload anything you do not have the right to use.
How your files are stored — please read this. For the Service to work, generated media and files you upload are stored at web addresses that are not guessable but are not password-protected: anyone who has the address can open the file, and that stays true until the file itself is deleted. The same is true of the live preview of a Project while your session is running. Do not put anything confidential into a Project. Rendered video exports are the exception — those are stored privately and can only be downloaded by you.
6. Output: what you get, and what we do not promise
As between you and us, the Output is yours. You own the video projects, source code and media generated for you through the Service, and we place no restriction on your commercial use of them, subject to any third-party rights and to your compliance with these Terms. The Service does not currently offer a way to download a Project’s source code — ask us and we will send you a copy.
But understand what an AI model can and cannot give you. Because Output is produced by machine learning models, we make no representation and give no warranty that Output:
is accurate, complete or fit for any particular purpose;
is unique — the Service may produce the same or a very similar result for you and for another user, from a similar prompt;
is protected by copyright in any country. In several jurisdictions, including France, material generated without sufficient human authorship may attract no copyright at all. We cannot tell you whether a given Output is protectable, and you should not assume it is; or
does not incorporate or resemble third-party material. A model may reproduce something protected. Checking that your Output is clear to use, in the countries where you intend to use it, is your responsibility.
Synthetic media. Output is artificially generated. Labelling it as such where the law requires — including under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU AI Act — is your responsibility as the person publishing it. See section 11 of the Acceptable Use Policy.
7. Third-party Model Providers and infrastructure
The Service generates images, video, voice and music by sending your prompts and Your Content to third-party Model Providers, and it runs on third-party infrastructure. We choose those providers, and we may add, replace or remove them at any time to improve quality, cost or availability. Section 8 of our Privacy Policy describes them, and we will give you the current named list on request.
Because those providers operate independently of us:
their outages, rate limits, queue times and maintenance can interrupt, slow or degrade the Service;
their content filters may refuse a generation that we would have allowed, and their policies may change without notice to us;
a model available yesterday may be withdrawn today, and results from a replacement model may differ; and
their own terms and content policies may apply to what you generate through them.
We are not responsible for the acts or omissions of a Model Provider. This does not affect our own obligation to supply a Service that conforms to what we promised, or any mandatory right you have as a Consumer.
8. Acceptable use
Your use of the Service is subject to our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Terms. It prohibits, among other things, sexual content involving minors, non-consensual intimate imagery, impersonating a real person without their documented consent, synthetic media of political figures that could be taken for real, fraud, and infringement of other people’s rights.
We do not pre-screen what you generate. If we become aware of content or conduct that breaches the Acceptable Use Policy, we may act under section 11.
9. Subscriptions, Credits and payment
9.1 How pricing works
The Service is metered in Credits. Each generation — an image, a video clip, a voice, a render — costs a number of Credits, which depends on the model used and what you ask for. Our plans and Credit packs are described on our pricing page, and your balance and your spending history are always visible in the app.
You obtain Credits in two ways, and they behave differently:
Plan Credits
Top-up Credits
Where they come from
Included with your subscription, granted at the start of each billing period
Bought separately, in fixed packs
Roll over between periods
Yes, while your subscription is active
Yes
Expiry
None while your subscription is active
None
If your subscription ends
Removed at the end of the paid period
Kept. They stay on your Account and remain spendable
We do not delete Credits you bought separately. If your subscription lapses or you cancel, they stay on your Account.
Credits are a prepaid right to use the Service. They are not money, not a deposit, not stored value and not a financial instrument. They have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for cash, and cannot be transferred to another account or to another person, except where the law requires otherwise.
9.2 How Credits are spent
When you send a request to the AI agent, the Service reserves a ceiling of Credits for that turn, draws against it as work is done, and returns the unused remainder to your balance when the turn finishes. Only what was actually used is charged.
Generations are charged when they run, and a generation you dislike is still a generation. A model call that fails, returns an error, or produces a result you do not want has still consumed compute that our providers charge us for, and is charged to you. Retries are charged too. If something goes wrong that is our fault — for example a fault in the Service that consumed Credits without producing anything — contact us at hello@debut.video and we will put it right.
Accounts without an active subscription may create up to five Projects and, once their balance is empty, cannot run generations. Planning and chatting with the agent remain available.
9.3 Payment
Payments are processed by Stripe. Card details are entered on Stripe’s own pages and never reach our servers. You must use a payment method you are authorised to use.
Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period, at the then-current price, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time, from the billing page in the app, which takes you to the Stripe customer portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for; you keep full access until then.
If a payment fails, we may retry it. Section 11 sets out when we may suspend paid features for non-payment, and the notice you get first.
9.4 Refunds
Except where these Terms say otherwise, where section 10 applies, or where the law requires it, payments are non-refundable, and cancelling a subscription does not entitle you to a refund for the remainder of the period you have paid for.
9.5 Price changes
We may change our subscription prices, our Credit pack prices, and the number of Credits an action costs.
We will give you at least 30 days’ notice by email before a subscription price increase takes effect, and it will only apply from your next billing period. If you do not want to continue, you can cancel before it takes effect.
Changes to how many Credits an action costs apply only to generations run after the change. Credits already in your balance keep their value in Credits; we will not retroactively deduct from your balance.
We will tell you by email before a material increase in what an action costs takes effect.
9.6 Taxes
Prices shown to consumers include all applicable taxes. Where we must collect VAT or an equivalent tax, it is calculated at the rate applicable in the country you are in, and shown to you before you pay.
If you are buying as a business, you are responsible for giving us a valid VAT identification number where you have one, and for accounting for any tax you have to self-assess. Tell us if your country or your tax status changes.
10. Right of withdrawal — EU and EEA Consumers
If you are a Consumer resident in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you have a legal right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days, without giving a reason. A model withdrawal form is at the end of these Terms (Annex 1). You can also simply email hello@debut.video with an unambiguous statement that you are withdrawing.
Subscriptions. The 14 days run from the day the contract is concluded.
Credits. Credits are digital content supplied without a tangible medium and are made available to you immediately. The 14 days run from the day of purchase.
What you get back. If you withdraw within the 14 days, we refund what you paid in full, whether or not you have used the Service in the meantime. We refund within 14 days of being told, using the payment method you used.
Nothing in this section affects the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content and services (Articles L224-25-1 and following of the French Consumer Code), which applies in addition to your right of withdrawal.
11. Suspension and termination
By you. You can stop using the Service at any time, cancel your subscription from the billing page, and ask us to close your Account by emailing hello@debut.video. Closing your Account is permanent.
By us — with notice. We may terminate these Terms on 30 days’ notice by email, for example if we discontinue the Service. If we do, we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid subscription period and any unspent Credits you have purchased.
By us — for breach. Either of us may terminate these Terms if the other materially breaches them and does not fix the breach within 30 days of being told about it.
Immediate suspension. We may suspend or restrict your Account immediately, without prior notice, where it is necessary to:
stop content or conduct that seriously breaches the Acceptable Use Policy, in particular anything involving minors, non-consensual intimate imagery, or an imminent risk of harm;
comply with a legal obligation or a valid order;
protect the Service, our providers or other users from a security threat, abuse or fraud; or
respond to a payment that has been unpaid for 30 days or more, in which case we will give you at least 10 days’ notice first, and we will not suspend you over an amount you have disputed in good faith.
Where we suspend an Account, we will tell you why as soon as we can, unless the law prevents us, and we will tell you how to contest the decision. If your suspension was unjustified, we will restore your Account.
What happens to your data. Your rendered videos stay downloadable for 30 days after termination. If you want a copy of a Project’s files or its history, email us within that window and we will send it to you. We delete your data after that window — the Privacy Policy sets out the retention and backup timings.
What happens to Credits. If we terminate your Account for a serious breach, unspent Credits are lost and are not refunded. If you close your Account yourself, tell us and we will refund your unspent purchased Credits. If we terminate for any other reason, the By us — with notice paragraph above applies.
12. Availability, changes and early access
Availability. We work to keep the Service available, but we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. The Service depends on third parties (see section 7) and needs maintenance. We give no service-level commitment unless we have agreed one with you in writing.
Changes to the Service. We may change the Service to keep it working, secure and compliant. We may also change it more substantially — adding, altering or removing features, or changing which models are available. Where a change would negatively affect your access to or use of the Service in a material way, and it is not needed to keep the Service in conformity, we will tell you at least 30 days in advance, at no cost to you, and you may terminate free of charge and receive a refund of the unused portion of what you have prepaid.
Early access. The Service, or parts of it, is offered as an early-access product. Features marked beta, preview or experimental may be incomplete, may change without notice, and may be withdrawn. We provide them as they are. This does not remove the legal guarantee of conformity owed to Consumers, which cannot be excluded.
Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will tell you by email or in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you do not accept it, you may terminate before it takes effect, and we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid subscription period and any unspent purchased Credits. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it.
13. Our intellectual property
The Service itself — the application, its interface, its underlying software, the agent’s prompts and tooling, our name, our logo and our brand — belongs to us or to our licensors. These Terms give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service while your Account is open, and nothing more.
You must not copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or create derivative works of the Service, except to the extent that mandatory law permits it, and you must not remove or obscure our notices. The Acceptable Use Policy sets out the rest of what you may not do with the Service.
Open-source components used in the Service and in the project template remain governed by their own licences.
Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them freely, without obligation to you.
Referring to you. We will not use your name or logo publicly without your permission.
14. Warranties and disclaimers
We provide the Service with reasonable care and skill.
Output is a different matter. To the fullest extent permitted by law it is provided “as is”, and we exclude all other warranties, conditions and representations, express or implied, including any implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, uniqueness or uninterrupted availability.
If you are a Consumer, this section does not apply to you to the extent it would reduce your rights. Consumers benefit from the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content and services (Articles L224-25-1 and following of the French Consumer Code), which cannot be excluded or limited.
15. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or dol; gross negligence or wilful misconduct (faute lourde ou dolosive); any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law; or the mandatory rights of Consumers.
If you are a Consumer, we are responsible for foreseeable loss and damage caused by our breach of these Terms. We are not responsible for loss or damage that was not foreseeable at the time the contract was made, that you could reasonably have avoided, that is caused by an event outside our reasonable control, or that is a business loss (loss of profit, business, business interruption, or business opportunity).
If you are using the Service in the course of a business, then to the fullest extent permitted by law: we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, anticipated savings, or data; and our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms is limited to the greater of €100 and the total amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.
In particular, and subject to the paragraphs above, we are not liable for: the content of any Output; a decision you took based on Output; any claim that your Output infringes a third party’s rights; loss or corruption of Projects or Output caused by a Model Provider, by another third party, or by your own deletion; or the acts, omissions, outages or policy decisions of a Model Provider or other third party.
16. Indemnity
This section applies only if you use the Service in the course of a business. You will defend and indemnify us against any third-party claim, and against the damages, losses and reasonable costs (including reasonable legal fees) resulting from it, where the claim arises from Your Content, from your Output, from your use of the Service, or from your breach of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy.
If you are a Consumer, this section does not apply, and your liability to us is governed by the general law.
17. Copyright complaints and illegal content
If you believe content generated or hosted through the Service infringes your rights, or is unlawful, write to hello@debut.video with:
your name and contact details;
a precise description of the content and where to find it (a URL, a Project reference, or both);
why you believe it is infringing or unlawful, and, for a copyright claim, evidence of your rights;
a statement that your notice is accurate and made in good faith.
We review complete notices, and we may remove or disable access to the content, suspend the Account concerned, or refuse to act if the notice is unfounded. We will tell the affected user what we have done and why, unless the law prevents us, and they may contest the decision by replying to the same address. We may terminate the Accounts of repeat infringers.
18. Governing law and disputes
Governing law. These Terms are governed by French law.
If you are a Consumer. The choice of French law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you habitually reside. You may bring proceedings before the courts of the country where you live, and we may bring proceedings against you only before those courts.
If you are a business user. The courts of Paris, France have exclusive jurisdiction.
Complaints first. Please write to hello@debut.video first. We will try to resolve your complaint within 30 days.
19. Assignment and change of operator
You may not assign or transfer these Terms, or your Account, without our prior written consent.
We may assign or transfer these Terms, and all of our rights and obligations under them, in whole or in part and without your further consent, to:
(a) any affiliate;
(b) any successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganisation, or a sale of all or substantially all of the assets or of the business to which these Terms relate; or
(c) any company incorporated by the operator to continue the Service, including on the incorporation or restructuring of the operator’s business.
You give your consent to such a transfer in advance, for the purposes of Article 1216 of the French Civil Code, and you agree that on the transfer taking effect and the transferee assuming these obligations, the transferor is released from them, in accordance with Article 1216-1 of that Code.
We will tell you about any such transfer by email or in the app before it takes effect. It will not reduce your rights or increase your obligations. If you would rather not continue with the new operator, you may close your Account, and we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid subscription period and any unspent purchased Credits.
20. General provisions
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Acceptable Use Policy and the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service, and replace any earlier understanding on the subject.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force, and the unenforceable provision is applied to the greatest extent permitted.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a right, we do not waive it.
Notices. We contact you at the email address on your Account; please keep it current. You contact us at the address in section 21. A notice by email is deemed received the next business day.
Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for a failure to perform caused by an event outside our reasonable control, for as long as it lasts.
No third-party rights. These Terms do not create rights for anyone other than you and us.
Language. These Terms are drafted in English. If we publish a translation and the versions differ, the English version prevails, except where mandatory law in your country requires otherwise.
Survival. Sections 2, 5 (as to retained copies), 6, 9 (as to amounts owed), and 11 to 20 survive termination.
21. Contact and legal information
For support, billing, account problems, complaints, legal notices, privacy requests and anything concerning these Terms:
hello@debut.video
Legal information. Debut is a service published and operated by Benjamin Soukiassian, Paris, France. Full publisher details — registration number, postal address, telephone number, VAT number and hosting provider — are set out in our Legal Notice.
Annex 1 — Model withdrawal form
Complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract.
To: Debut — Benjamin Soukiassian, 36 rue Réaumur, 75003 Paris, France — hello@debut.video
I/We (\) hereby give notice that I/We (\) withdraw from my/our (\*) contract for the supply of the following service:
— Ordered on (\)/received on (\): ………………………………………….. — Name of consumer(s): ………………………………………….. — Address of consumer(s): ………………………………………….. — Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper): ………………………………………….. — Date: …………………………………………..
(\*) Delete as appropriate.