Both send your question to a frontier model. The difference is what the model's operator is told about who asked.
This reflects each provider's default consumer experience at the time of writing. Provider features and policies change often, and vary by plan and region — check the provider for the current position. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners, used here for identification and comparison only.
Where ChatGPT is the better choice
ChatGPT is the more capable product in ways that matter: a larger ecosystem, custom GPTs, and first-party access to new models the day they ship. If you want the deepest single-vendor toolset, that is a real argument and this page will not talk you out of it. The comparison here is narrow — it is about what the provider learns about the person asking.
Where our own protection stops
Secure AI removes the identity attached to your account, not identifying details you write into a message yourself. If you type your own name or address, that reaches the AI provider as you wrote it. And stored conversations are encrypted with a key we hold, so we remain technically capable of reading them.
The full account of what we can and cannot see is on our security page.
Questions
Does ChatGPT train on my conversations?
On consumer plans, by default, yes — with a setting to turn it off. What the setting cannot change is that your chats remain stored under an account with your name on it.
Is Secure AI just a wrapper around ChatGPT?
We route to a blend of providers rather than one, and the routing is the product: requests reach them with our credentials and without your identity. What we add is the layer in between, not a different model.
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