# AI assistants privacy ratings

AI chatbots and assistants, hosted and local, rated on how they keep prompts and whether they train models on them.

| Name | Grade | Jurisdiction | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Jan](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/jan/) | B (89/100) | Unknown | Open-source desktop app for running large language models offline on a local computer, with optional connections to remote AI APIs. |
| [llama.cpp](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/llama-cpp/) | B (89/100) | Unknown | Open-source C/C++ library and command-line tools for running large language model inference locally on CPUs and GPUs, including a built-in web server and chat interface. |
| [Ollama](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/ollama/) | B (81/100) | Unknown | Open-source tool for downloading and running large language models on a local computer through a command line, API and desktop app. Optional cloud-hosted models are also offered. |
| [Lumo](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/lumo/) | C (73/100) | Switzerland | AI assistant from Proton that runs open-weight models on Proton's servers, with no logs of chats and zero-access encrypted chat history. |
| [GPT4All](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/gpt4all/) | C (72/100) | Unknown | Open-source desktop app from Nomic for running large language models locally, including chatting with local documents. |
| [LM Studio](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/lm-studio/) | C (72/100) | Unknown | Desktop app for finding, downloading and running large language models locally, with a chat interface and a local API server. |
| [Open WebUI](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/open-webui/) | C (72/100) | Unknown | Self-hosted web interface for large language models that works with Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with multi-user support. |
| [Brave Leo](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/brave-leo/) | C (61/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI assistant built into the Brave browser for chat, page summaries and writing help. Works without an account and can also use local or self-chosen models. |
| [Duck.ai](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/duck-ai/) | C (60/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI chat from DuckDuckGo that relays prompts to third-party models without identifying the user, with no account needed and recent chats saved only on the device. |
| [Kagi Assistant](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/kagi-assistant/) | D (54/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI assistant from Kagi that combines several third-party language models with Kagi Search results, available with a Kagi account. |
| [Claude](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/claude/) | D (44/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI assistant from Anthropic for writing, analysis, coding and research, available on the web and as desktop and mobile apps, with free and paid plans. |
| [ChatGPT](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/chatgpt/) | D (42/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI chatbot from OpenAI for writing, questions, coding, image generation and voice conversations. Available on the web and as desktop and mobile apps, with free and paid plans. |
| [Venice](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/venice/) | D (42/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI chat and image generation service that proxies prompts to open and third-party models, keeping conversation history only in the browser. |
| [Google Gemini](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/google-gemini/) | F (35/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI assistant from Google for questions, writing, coding and image generation, connected to Google services such as Gmail and Drive. Available on the web and in Android and iOS apps. |
| [Mistral Vibe](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/mistral-vibe/) | F (33/100) | France (Nine Eyes) | AI assistant from French company Mistral AI, formerly called Le Chat, for chat, research, documents and coding tasks. Available on the web and in mobile apps. |
| [Microsoft Copilot](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/microsoft-copilot/) | F (29/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Consumer AI assistant from Microsoft for chat, search, writing and image generation, built into Windows and Edge and available on the web and in mobile apps. |
| [Meta AI](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/meta-ai/) | F (27/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI assistant from Meta built into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, and available on the web and as a standalone app. |
| [Perplexity](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/perplexity/) | F (27/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | AI answer engine that searches the web and summarizes results with cited sources, available on the web and as desktop and mobile apps. |

## Criteria

- **Open source** (weight 3): Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
- **No trackers or telemetry** (weight 3): Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
- **No ads or data sales** (weight 2): Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
- **Independent audit** (weight 2): Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
- **Transparency report** (weight 2): Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
- **Tells users about requests** (weight 1): Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
- **TLS configuration** (weight 2, automated): Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
- **Security headers** (weight 1, automated): Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
- **Modern web standards** (weight 1, automated): Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
- **No training on your data** (weight 3): Are prompts, chats and files kept out of model training by default?
- **Runs locally** (weight 2): Can the assistant run on your own device or server, so prompts never leave it?
- **Limited chat retention** (weight 2): Are chats deleted by default or on request, with no long-term server copy?
- **No account needed** (weight 1): Can it be used without an account or personal details?

Source: https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/