Moonlit MCP Server Terms of Service

Last updated 2 August 2026.

These Terms of Service (the "MCP Terms") govern self-serve subscriptions to the Moonlit MCP Server (the "MCP Service") by Subscribers and their Authorised Users. They are the complete terms for those subscriptions.

Enterprise access to the MCP Service and all access to the Moonlit Data API are governed by agreements concluded through Moonlit's sales team, provided during that process. Where a signed order form exists, it prevails over these MCP Terms (§2.2).

1. Definitions

1.1 "MCP Key" means an organisation credential for the MCP Service, created under "My organization", "MCP keys" in the Moonlit Platform and presented to the MCP Server as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.

1.2 "Authorised User" means a natural person assigned a seat under the Subscriber's account. Where the Subscriber is a natural person, the Subscriber may be the sole Authorised User.

1.3 "MCP Client" means an MCP-spec-compliant client application (for example, Claude.ai or Claude Code) used to connect to the MCP Server.

1.4 "MCP Server" means the Moonlit MCP Server hosted at https://mcp.moonlit.ai/mcp and any successor location.

1.5 "MCP Tools" means the read-only Data Layer endpoints exposed by the MCP Server, as documented at moonlit.ai/docs/mcp. Moonlit may update this set from time to time.

1.6 "Moonlit Data Layer" or "Data Layer" means Moonlit's database of publicly available European legal and regulatory sources, together with the Enrichments.

1.7 "Moonlit" means Moonlit Legal Technologies B.V., Westeinde 14, 1017 ZP Amsterdam, KvK 93559291, VAT NL866449437B01.

1.8 "Subscriber" or "you" means the person who has entered into a Subscription.

1.9 "Subscription" means the Subscriber's subscription for the MCP Service under one of the tiers in §6.1.

1.10 "Enrichments" means the metadata and classifications Moonlit generates from the sources in the Data Layer, such as field-of-law and document-type classifications, the reference graph, source mappings, and the inForce status indicator.

1.11 "Moonlit Platform" means Moonlit's legal research application at app.moonlit.ai.

1.12 "Confidential Information" means non-public information disclosed by a Party in connection with the MCP Service that is designated confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential.

1.13 "Parties" means Moonlit and the Subscriber, and "Party" means either of them.

Terms defined elsewhere in these MCP Terms (such as "Call" in §6.1) have the meanings given where they are introduced.

2. Applicability

2.1 These MCP Terms apply to all offers, subscriptions, and legal relations between Moonlit and the Subscriber concerning the MCP Service. Subscriber's own general terms are rejected.

2.2 In the event of conflict between these MCP Terms and a signed order form, the order form prevails. Deviations otherwise apply only if agreed in writing by Moonlit.

2.3 The MCP Privacy Policy and the Data Processing Agreement are incorporated by reference for the processing of personal data.

3. Access and Authentication

3.1 Individual Authorised Users access the MCP Server by signing in with their Moonlit Platform account through the OAuth 2.1 authorisation code flow with PKCE documented at moonlit.ai/docs/mcp. Moonlit does not issue keys to individual Authorised Users. Where the Subscriber is an organisation, it may additionally authenticate pooled and deployed services with MCP Keys. MCP Keys are created and revoked by the organisation Owner or a member holding the Developer role, under "My organization", "MCP keys" in the Moonlit Platform; organisations can manage MCP Keys and see their usage in organisation settings. No other access method is permitted.

3.2 Each Authorised User shall keep the credentials of their Moonlit Platform account confidential. The Subscriber shall keep MCP Keys confidential, prevent unauthorised use, revoke any MCP Key it suspects has been compromised, and promptly notify security@moonlit.ai of any suspected compromise. Any use of the MCP Service through the account credentials of the Subscriber or its Authorised Users, or through an MCP Key created under the Subscriber's organisation (including use by pooled or deployed services and other automated workloads), is deemed use by the Subscriber.

3.3 Moonlit may update the MCP Service, including the set of MCP Tools, parameter schemas, and response formats, with reasonable advance notice for changes that materially affect integrations. Moonlit does not commit to backward compatibility.

3.4 The Subscriber shall use the MCP Service solely through the documented MCP Tools and shall not circumvent technical restrictions, access controls, or rate limits.

4. The Moonlit Data Layer

4.1 The Data Layer comprises legal documents from official European public sources, together with Enrichments generated by Moonlit (such as field-of-law and document-type classifications, the reference graph, source mappings, and the inForce status indicator). Enrichments are provided for informational purposes only.

4.2 MCP Tools that use semantic ranking (including hybrid_search_reranked) route queries through Moonlit's GenAI infrastructure. AI-derived outputs are subject to the limitations inherent in generative AI and may contain inaccuracies, omissions, or hallucinations.

4.3 The Data Layer is provided "as is" and "as available" for research and informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice (see Article 12).

5. Permitted Use

5.1 The Subscriber and its Authorised Users may use the MCP Service for interactive legal research, for grounding the responses of an AI assistant operated for personal or internal business use, and for integrating MCP Tool outputs into personal or internal professional workflows.

5.2 Operational caching by an MCP Client to serve a session is permitted. The Subscriber shall not deliberately persist, aggregate, or extract MCP Tool responses to build a local replica of the Data Layer or any substantial part of it, whether for internal redistribution, downstream products, or any purpose outside §5.1.

6. Subscription, Pricing, Free Tier, and Refunds

6.1 Pricing and metering. The MCP Service is billed monthly in advance, per Authorised User per calendar month, exclusive of VAT. A "Call" means a single search, document retrieval, or filter lookup performed through an MCP Tool; each counts as one Call against the monthly quota. get_account_status and convert_to_celex are computation tools and never count as Calls. The available tiers are:

• MCP Free, 100 Calls per month: EUR 0 per Authorised User per month.
• MCP Basic, up to 500 Calls per month: EUR 39 per Authorised User per month.
• MCP Pro, up to 1,200 Calls per month: EUR 79 per Authorised User per month.
• Above 1,200 Calls per month, or enterprise agreements: contact sales@moonlit.ai or book a call at moonlit.ai/book-a-call for an order form.

Where the Subscriber is an organisation, Call usage is pooled across its Authorised Users.

6.2 MCP Free tier. The MCP Free tier is provided at no cost and without payment-card details, limited to 100 Calls per Authorised User per calendar month. The Subscription does not convert to a paid tier unless the Subscriber actively selects a paid tier and provides payment details. Moonlit may change or withdraw the MCP Free tier in accordance with §7.5 and §16.6.

6.3 Payment. Fees are payable in euros within thirty (30) days of invoice date.

6.4 Indexation.Prices are subject to annual indexation in line with the CBS Services Price Index (Dienstenprijsindex, "DPI"). The base date is the Subscription effective date.

6.5 Refunds. Outside any statutory consumer right of withdrawal, prepaid fees are non-refundable. On termination within a paid month, access continues to month-end with no pro-rata refund.

7. Usage Quotas

7.1 Tool calls failing with a 4xx response (other than 429) do not count toward the monthly Call quota.

7.2 The monthly Call quota under the applicable tier is the only commercial usage limit that applies to the MCP Service; technical rate limits exist to protect service stability (§3.4) and are separate from billing. When the quota is exhausted, further metered Tool calls return a message stating that the usage limit has been reached. Access resumes at the start of the next calendar month, or earlier on an upgrade to a higher tier via self-service; higher limits than the self-service tiers are available under an order-form plan (§6.1). Moonlit is not liable for any interruption resulting from quota enforcement.

7.3 Usage above 1,200 Calls per Authorised User per calendar month is available only under an order-form plan (§6.1). For an organisation with pooled usage, this threshold is 1,200 Calls multiplied by its number of Authorised Users, measured on the pooled total. Where usage structurally exceeds the highest self-service tier, Moonlit may notify the Subscriber and (after a reasonable opportunity to move to an order-form plan) suspend access for the remainder of the month.

7.4 On late payment and after written notice, Moonlit may suspend access. Moonlit is not liable for damage resulting from suspension.

7.5 Moonlit may adjust pricing tiers and Call quotas with at least thirty (30) days' prior written notice to active Subscribers.

8. Attribution

8.1 Where MCP Tool responses are surfaced to a human reader through an MCP Client, Moonlit shall, where technically feasible, be identified as the source of search results, metadata, and Enrichments. No attribution is required for the raw text of legal documents.

8.2 The Subscriber shall not modify the content of legal documents retrieved through the MCP Service in a way that misrepresents the original source.

9. Restrictions

The Subscriber shall not, and shall ensure that its Authorised Users do not:

• (a) sublicense, resell, or redistribute the Data Layer, in whole or in substantial part, to third parties;
• (b) use the MCP Service to systematically download, extract, or replicate substantial portions of the Data Layer, including through query patterns inconsistent with interactive use by a single Authorised User;
• (c) use MCP Tool outputs to develop, train, fine-tune, evaluate, or otherwise improve any machine-learning model, except under a separate written agreement with Moonlit;
• (d) build or operate a legal research platform substantially similar to the Moonlit Platform on the basis of MCP Tool outputs;
• (e) engage in automated abuse, including scraping, denial-of-service patterns, sharing of Moonlit account credentials among more users than the seats subscribed, or distribution of MCP Keys outside the Subscriber's organisation;
• (f) circumvent or interfere with technical restrictions, access controls, rate limits, or authentication mechanisms;
• (g) access the MCP Service other than through the documented Moonlit account sign-in flow or an MCP Key created under the Subscriber's organisation, and the documented MCP Tools; or
• (h) reverse-engineer or attempt to reconstruct the structure or schema of the Data Layer or the Enrichments, except as strictly necessary to integrate the documented MCP Tools.

A violation of this Article may result in immediate suspension of access. Unless immediate suspension is reasonably required, Moonlit will give reasonable notice. Moonlit is not liable for damage resulting from suspension.

10. Personal Data

10.1 The processing of personal data arising from use of the MCP Service is described in the MCP Privacy Policy and, where the Subscriber acts as a controller, governed by the DPA, both incorporated under §2.3.

10.2 The Data Layer is derived from publicly available legal sources and may contain residual personal data (party or judge names) as published by official bodies. Moonlit and the Subscriber are independent controllers in respect of such personal data.

10.3 The Subscriber and its Authorised Users shall not knowingly submit through the MCP Service personal data unnecessary for the query at hand, and in any event shall not knowingly submit special categories of personal data (Art. 9 GDPR) or criminal-conviction data (Art. 10 GDPR) without an appropriate legal basis.

11. Intellectual Property

11.1 All intellectual property rights in the Data Layer and the Enrichments, including copyright and database rights (including sui generis rights under Directive 96/9/EC), remain the exclusive property of Moonlit or its licensors.

11.2 For the duration of the Subscription, the Subscriber receives a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the MCP Service as set out in these MCP Terms. Nothing in these MCP Terms grants Moonlit any rights to the Subscriber's prompts, queries, or know-how, and Moonlit will not use Subscriber prompts or queries to train its own models.

11.3 The Subscriber shall not claim ownership of the Data Layer, remove proprietary notices or source attributions, or attempt to extract or replicate the Data Layer or any substantial part of it.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

12.1 Not legal advice. MCP Tool outputs do not constitute legal, tax, regulatory, or other professional advice. The Subscriber and each Authorised User remain solely responsible for any decisions taken on the basis of MCP Tool outputs.

12.2 The MCP Service and the Data Layer are provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by applicable mandatory law, Moonlit disclaims all warranties (express, implied, statutory, or otherwise), including merchantability, fitness for purpose, accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, and non-infringement. In particular, Moonlit does not warrant that the Data Layer will be error-free or complete, that Enrichments will be correct in all instances, that AI-derived outputs will be free from inaccuracies or hallucinations, or that the MCP Service will be uninterrupted.

12.3 The MCP Service grounds an MCP Client's outputs in verified Moonlit documents; final responses produced by the MCP Client (including any LLM connected through it) remain the responsibility of the MCP Client and its operator.

12.4 Moonlit may take the MCP Service temporarily offline for maintenance or improvements and will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide advance notice of planned unavailability.

13. Confidentiality

13.1 Each Party shall treat the other's Confidential Information (including business plans, pricing, technical specifications, MCP Keys, and usage data) as strictly confidential and shall not disclose it to third parties, except: to employees and contractors bound by equivalent confidentiality obligations on a need-to-know basis; where required by law (with prompt notice where possible); or with the prior written consent of the other Party.

13.2 Moonlit shall not use or disclose Subscriber usage data (queries, request metadata, access patterns) except as necessary to perform the MCP Service, to maintain security, or in anonymised and aggregated form for operational monitoring and product improvement. Moonlit logs MCP requests at the request level (tool name, timestamp, response status, latency, MCP Client identifier, IP address) but does not store the substantive content of query payloads or document bodies returned in response.

13.3 This Article survives termination for five (5) years.

14. Limitation of Liability

14.1 A Party's liability is limited to direct damages. Neither Party is liable for indirect or consequential damages, including loss of profit, business interruption, loss of data, reputational damage, or third-party claims.

14.2 Each Party's total aggregate liability under these MCP Terms shall not exceed the amount the Subscriber has paid or is obligated to pay to Moonlit for the MCP Service in the twelve (12) months preceding the act or omission giving rise to liability. This cap applies to all heads of liability.

14.3 §§14.1 to 14.2 do not apply in the case of intent (opzet) or deliberate recklessness (bewuste roekeloosheid).

14.4 Any claim must be brought within twelve (12) months of the day on which the Party became aware, or reasonably could have become aware, of the damage and of the other Party as the liable party. After this period, claims are time-barred to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

15. Force Majeure

Neither Party is liable for any failure or delay in performance (other than payment) to the extent caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, epidemics, war, terrorism, cyberattacks, government actions, labour disputes, or failure of third-party services or infrastructure.

16. Term, Termination, and Changes

16.1 Term. Unless an order form provides otherwise, the Subscription is a rolling monthly Subscription that renews automatically until terminated.

16.2 Termination for convenience. Either Party may terminate with effect at the end of the then-current paid month by written notice; for the Subscriber, this may be the in-product cancellation flow.

16.3 Termination for cause. Either Party may terminate with immediate effect for: (a) material breach not cured within thirty (30) days of written notice; (b) proven misuse of the MCP Service; or (c) insolvency or bankruptcy of the other Party.

16.4 Effect of termination. Access ceases at the end of the then-current paid month. The Subscriber shall not retain or further use MCP Tool responses other than as already integrated into prior work product, and shall not aggregate, redistribute, or otherwise exploit them. Moonlit shall delete or anonymise the Subscriber's personal data in accordance with Clause 6 of the DPA and the MCP Privacy Policy.

16.5 Data export. Within thirty (30) days of termination, the Subscriber may request a copy of its account metadata, usage telemetry, and persistent configuration data in a commonly used machine-readable format by emailing privacy@moonlit.ai. The Data Layer is not Subscriber data and is not exportable.

16.6 Changes to these Terms. Moonlit may amend these MCP Terms. Material changes will be communicated to active Subscribers at least thirty (30) days before they take effect. If the Subscriber does not agree, it may terminate under §16.2 with effect at the end of the then-current paid month, and the amended terms will not be enforced against it for that period.

16.7 Survival. Articles 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 17, and §16.5, survive termination.

17. Support, Governing Law, and Disputes

17.1 Support. Moonlit provides support at support@moonlit.ai and through the documentation portal. No service-level commitments are made unless expressly agreed in an order form.

17.2 Governing law. These MCP Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands.

17.3 Disputes. Disputes shall be resolved by the competent courts of Amsterdam. Where both Parties agree in writing, or where so provided in an order form, a dispute may instead be referred to binding arbitration under the NAI Rules, seated in Amsterdam, in English.

18. Miscellaneous

18.1 No amendment is valid unless made in accordance with §16.6 or in writing signed by both Parties.

18.2 If any provision is invalid or unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect, and the invalid provision is deemed replaced by a valid one differing as little as possible from the original.

18.3 These MCP Terms, together with the documents incorporated under §2.3, constitute the entire agreement between the Parties on the subject matter and supersede all prior agreements.

18.4 The Subscriber may not assign without Moonlit's prior written consent, except to a group company. Moonlit may assign to a successor entity. This provision has effect under property law as intended in Article 3:83(2) of the Dutch Civil Code.

18.5 Failure to insist on performance does not waive any rights.

18.6 Moonlit may engage third parties in the performance of the MCP Service and remains liable for those it engages in accordance with Article 14. Sub-processors of personal data are listed at Sub-processors.