Acceptable Use Policy

Katabench executes code you write on our infrastructure. That’s the whole point of the product — and it only works if everyone plays fair. This policy is part of the Terms of Service.

The spirit of it

Use the platform to practice and learn. Submissions should be honest attempts at solving puzzles. Anything that treats the sandbox as free compute, attacks the platform, or spoils the puzzles for others is out of bounds.

You must not

• Attack the platform. No attempts to escape, probe, or disable the sandbox; no exploiting vulnerabilities; no interfering with grading, quotas, or entitlements. (If you find a vulnerability, we’d genuinely love to hear about it — report it privately to [email protected].)
• Use the Service as a compute service. No cryptocurrency mining, no proxying or tunneling workloads through submissions, no using the sandbox for anything other than solving the puzzle in front of you.
• Abuse capacity. No denial-of-service, no flooding the submission endpoint, no automated submission bots, and no scripted scraping of the API or puzzle content.
• Game the product. No sharing accounts, no circumventing daily quotas or plan limits (e.g., by cycling accounts), no manipulating leaderboards with automated or plagiarized solutions.
• Steal the content. No republishing, reselling, or bulk-harvesting puzzles, hidden test data, or reference solutions.
• Break the law. No illegal content in submissions or profiles, no infringing others’ rights, no harassment in any community spaces.

Fair use of “unlimited”

Pro’s unlimited submissions are unlimited for a human practicing deliberately. Automated or extreme usage patterns that degrade the service for others may be throttled. We’ll always attempt to contact you before anything stronger than a throttle.

Enforcement

Violations may result in throttling, suspension, or termination of your account, depending on severity — egregious cases (attacks, mining, DoS) result in immediate termination. Where practicable we’ll warn you first and explain what happened.

Questions? [email protected]