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How private is 'private' uncensored AI? We scored 37 providers' policies

Everyone says 'no logs.' We read every privacy policy and scored them on a 100-point rubric. The best scored 65. Here's why nobody gets close to 100.

Uncensored AI and privacy go together. If you’re asking a model something a mainstream assistant would refuse, you probably don’t want the conversation stored, reviewed, or used for training. Almost every provider in our index says something like “no logs.”

So we read every privacy policy and scored it against a fixed rubric. The rubric is on the methodology page, and the core rule is simple: only documented claims earn points. If a policy doesn’t say a provider won’t train on your prompts, it gets no credit for not training.

The rubric (100 points)

Item Points
Prompt retention: none / short-lived / retained 20 / 10 / 0
Prompts not used for training 15
Technical guarantee (attested TEE or end-to-end encryption) 20
Signup: no personal info / email / account / ID 8 / 5 / 3 / 0
Accepts crypto 7
Legal jurisdiction disclosed 10
Upstream hosts disclosed 10
Independent audit or open source 10

The results

Provider Score Why
OpenRouter 65 No logging by default, no training, named jurisdiction, each request routed to a named upstream
DeepInfra 58 Memory-only processing, no training, California company, upstream disclosed
Hugging Face 58 Doesn’t store bodies when routing, no training, named upstreams
NextBit 58 Zero-retention terms, own EU hardware in Spain, no training
Venice.ai 55 No logging, no training, Wyoming jurisdiction, crypto accepted
Unfil.ai 50 Strong claims and no-email signup, but anonymous operator
Abliteration.ai 48 Transient processing, no training, Delaware company; card-only, account required
AionLabs 48 No prompt storage, no training, Polish company; metadata kept 12 months
Novita AI 48 Zero-retention terms, no training by default, Delaware
Parasail 48 No logging beyond generation, no training, US company
DemonRoute 45 Strong claims and crypto-only, but unnamed upstreams and no formal policy page
HackAIGC 45 Strong claims, crypto accepted, but no named company or jurisdiction
PayPerQ 45 Chats decrypted only in an open-source, attestable enclave; no account needed, Lightning and Monero; training unstated
Electron Hub 40 No content logging, upstream disclosed; moderation-scans every request; no named entity
Infermatic 40 No retention, Delaware company, crypto accepted
Unjailed AI 40 API not stored; web chat expires after 24 hours; Monero accepted
Nebius 38 Retains prompts by default (opt-out available), no training, EU company
Requesty 38 Logging on by default for 30 days (can be disabled), no training, UK company
Chub AI 35 API not logged, no training, crypto only; no named entity
NanoGPT 35 No retention, no account needed, but training and jurisdiction unstated
Uncensored.chat 35 24-hour auto-delete, crypto only, but no privacy policy document
Arli AI 33 No retention, all inference in-house
NovelAI 33 Doesn’t store prompts, client-side encrypted stories, Massachusetts company; training unstated
NoFilterGPT 32 “Purged after receipt” claims, but its policy logs IPs and usage
NoTrack 30 Policy says chats are kept 30 days; API page says nothing is stored
AI Horde 28 Open source, but volunteer workers can see prompts
DreamGen 28 Stores stories, training opt-in, Swiss jurisdiction
Perchance 28 Not stored server-side, no account, but anonymous operator
NoLimitGPT 25 Conversations stored to your account; no training
Featherless.ai 23 Clear no-logging claim; nothing else documented
Agnai 18 Generic policy: collects content, may use it for research
RedModel 18 Keeps content as long as useful and trains on it; no account needed for chat, Texas governing law
MegaNova 13 Collects prompts and outputs, kept “as long as necessary”
FreedomGPT 3 Collects prompts; “no expectation of privacy”
AI/ML API — Policy says nothing about prompts
Dolphin — No privacy policy found
Mancer — No logging policy published

Why nobody breaks 70

1. Nobody offers a verifiable guarantee across the board. Every provider’s “no logs” is a promise in a policy document. That’s worth something, but you can’t check it. The 20 rubric points for technical guarantees go to attested confidential computing, where hardware proves what code is running, or end-to-end encryption. Venice offers end-to-end encryption on some models. PayPerQ now decrypts every chat request only inside an enclave running open-source code you can verify, which stops PayPerQ reading your prompts, but the model host behind it still sees them. Nobody protects the prompt all the way to the model on every request, so nobody gets those points yet.

2. “We don’t log” says nothing about upstream. Many uncensored providers don’t own GPUs. They rent from cloud hosts or resell other APIs. A provider can truthfully keep no logs while the GPU host or upstream API does. OpenRouter is the clearest about this: every request names its upstream. Others mention upstream policies only in passing, if at all.

3. Anonymous operators can’t be held to anything. A large share of the index doesn’t name a legal entity or jurisdiction. Two anonymous services, DemonRoute and HackAIGC, score mid-table on the strength of their claims alone. A privacy policy from an anonymous operator is a promise with no one to enforce it. That’s why disclosing a jurisdiction is worth 10 points.

4. Silence earns zero. Featherless has one of the clearest no-logging statements in the market but says nothing about training, jurisdiction, or payment methods. Under a rubric that only rewards what’s written, it scores 23. Providers can raise their scores the cheap way: write it down.

What to actually do

  • For sensitive work, prefer providers with named jurisdictions and clear policies. A promise someone can be held to beats an anonymous one.
  • Check which model you’re using. At Venice, “Anonymized” frontier models still pass your prompts to OpenAI, Anthropic, or xAI.
  • Assume upstream can see it unless the provider says otherwise.
  • Never send anything to AI Horde you wouldn’t post publicly. Its own FAQ says the same.
  • Watch for end-to-end encrypted options as they spread. That’s the first real step from “trust us” to “verify us.”

We re-check every policy monthly against archived copies. When a provider changes its terms, its score changes, and we’ll say so here.