Gemini's advantage and its cost are the same fact: it is wired into the Google account that already holds most of your life.
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 Gemini is the better choice
If you want an assistant that can read your inbox, pull a figure from a spreadsheet in your Drive and drop it into a doc, Gemini does something we deliberately cannot. That integration is real work and a real advantage. The trade is that the same integration is what makes the identity inseparable from the request. Both are true at once, and which matters more depends on what you are 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
Can Secure AI read my email or documents like Gemini can?
No, and that is deliberate rather than unfinished. The privacy claim rests on us holding as little as possible; reaching into your mail would be the opposite of it.
Is Gemini free?
There is a free tier, as there is here. The relevant question for this page is not price but what the account attached to your questions already knows about you.
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