Privatemode vs. ChatGPT & Claude
ChatGPT and Claude process your prompts and files on their own servers.
Privatemode gives you the same models, encrypted end-to-end.
Data privacy
Who can technically read your data.
- Privatemode: hardware-enforced
- ChatGPT & Claude: contractual only
Privatemode encrypts prompts, files, and responses end-to-end and processes them only inside confidential-computing environments. Even Privatemode can't see the plaintext. ChatGPT and Claude process the same kind of data unencrypted on OpenAI's and Anthropic's own servers, covered only by a data-processing agreement.
Compliance
Whether you can prove it, or just claim it.
- Privatemode: verifiable guarantees
- ChatGPT & Claude: limited
With Privatemode, plaintext never exists outside your control, so you can point auditors straight at the architecture to prove GDPR and industry compliance. Compliance with ChatGPT and Claude rests on the provider's own policies and audits. Your team can review them, but has no independent way to verify them.
Setup time
Same speed. The difference is what happens after.
- Privatemode: minutes
- ChatGPT & Claude: minutes, too
Both are available today with no new infrastructure or procurement cycle. Setup time isn't the argument for switching here, data handling is.
Costs
Same billing model. The difference is your data.
- Privatemode: usage-based
- ChatGPT & Claude: usage-based, too
Both charge on a usage basis. Cost isn't the argument for switching here, data handling is.
Privatemode vs. ChatGPT & Claude, at a glance.
Same model quality. ChatGPT and Claude process your data in plaintext on their own servers. Privatemode encrypts it end-to-end and gives you cryptographic proof that nobody, including Privatemode, can read it.
- Data privacy
- Compliance
- Setup time
- Costs
Privatemode
Cloud-grade AI with end-to-end encryption and confidential computing. Built for business and enterprise teams whose data can never be exposed to the AI provider.
- Hardware-enforced
- Verifiable guarantees
- Minutes
- Usage-based
ChatGPT & Claude
Powerful AI, but prompts, files, and code are processed in plaintext on the provider's servers, with no verifiable privacy guarantees.
- Contractual only
- Limited
- Minutes
- Usage-based
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ChatGPT alternative
Frequently asked questions
Standard AI chat tools process your prompts, files, and code in plaintext on the provider's servers, so you have to trust their policies. Privatemode keeps the same familiar chat experience, but encrypts your data end-to-end and processes it only inside hardware-isolated confidential-computing environments. The AI provider, the cloud operator, and Privatemode itself are all technically unable to read your data, and you can confirm that yourself through remote attestation.
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