r/AI_Agents: almost half the AI tool vendors I checked forbid benchmarking
An independent grading site's founder read 674 AI tool vendors' terms and found 315 restrict benchmarking — 69 ban it outright. The thread connects this to Oracle's 1982 anti-benchmarking clause and argues vendors price in the fact that independent benchmarks would make their pricing indefensible. A useful data point for anyone choosing agent infrastructure.