AI data terms

Do AI providers train on your data? OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft in their own words

What four AI providers’ business terms say about training models on the data you send them, and about how long they keep it. Each entry is a sentence quoted from the provider’s own page, as it read on the date shown. We do not summarize or score them; read them side by side.

These are the terms for businesses and API customers. The consumer apps have their own terms, quoted in the last section.

Training on customer data

OpenAI

As of March 1, 2023, data sent to the OpenAI API is not used to train or improve OpenAI models (unless you explicitly opt in to share data with us).

API data controls · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot 91fa9ffc7855

Anthropic

Anthropic may not train models on Customer Content from Services.

Commercial Terms of Service · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot 8dc03be71902

Google Cloud

Google will not use Customer Data to train or fine-tune any AI/ML models without Customer's prior permission or instruction.

Service Specific Terms · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot 39ed22e35651

Microsoft

The models are stateless: no prompts or completions are stored in the model. Additionally, prompts and completions are not used to train, retrain, or improve the base models.

Data, privacy, and security for Models sold by Azure · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot 72fd045f0b8d

How long they keep it

OpenAI

By default, abuse monitoring logs are generated for all API feature usage and retained for up to 30 days, unless longer retention is required by law, or is reasonably necessary to protect our services or any third party from harm.

API data controls · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot 91fa9ffc7855

Eligible customers may have their customer content excluded from these abuse monitoring logs, subject to the limitations below, by getting approved for the Zero Data Retention or Modified Abuse Monitoring controls.

API data controls · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot 91fa9ffc7855

Anthropic

Conversation content (your prompts and Claude's outputs) is not retained by default; the exception is Covered Models, which require 30-day retention.

API and data retention · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot c43cf930c464

Under a ZDR arrangement, Anthropic does not store customer prompts or responses at rest after the API response is returned.

API and data retention · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot c43cf930c464

Google Cloud

By default, Google's published Gemini models cache Customer Data (inputs, outputs, and derived data) in-memory to reduce latency and accelerate responses. This data is stored only in-memory (not at-rest), is isolated at the project level, and has a 24-hour TTL.

Zero data retention · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot d480c43733dc

Prompt logging for abuse monitoring for Google models: As outlined in Section 4.3 "Generative AI Safety and Abuse" of Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service, Google may log prompts to detect potential abuse and violations of its Acceptable Use Policy and Prohibited Use Policy as part of providing generative AI services to customers.

Zero data retention · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot d480c43733dc

Microsoft

The abuse monitoring data store where prompts and completions are stored for human review is logically separated by customer resource (each request includes the resource ID of the customer's Foundry resource).

Data, privacy, and security for Models sold by Azure · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot 72fd045f0b8d

Neither of the 2 pages we read states a retention period in hours, days, weeks, months or years: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/responsible-ai/openai/data-privacy (read September 30, 2026); learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/abuse-monitoring (read September 30, 2026).

The consumer apps’ terms

The terms for individual users of the chat apps are separate documents from the business terms above.

OpenAI

If you do not want us to use your Content to train our models, you can opt out by following the instructions in this article.

Terms of Use · read September 30, 2026 · snapshot 6e5f0cb3f341

Anthropic

We may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training our models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings.

Consumer Terms of Service · read September 24, 2026 · snapshot 6356c4c73ba8

We do not yet keep copies of the consumer terms for Google's Gemini app or Microsoft Copilot, so they are not quoted here.

How this page stays current

Each page quoted here is re-read every week, and every reading is kept as a dated, hashed copy. If a provider rewrites one of these sentences, this page shows that the sentence is gone rather than the old wording, and the change appears on the provider’s record. How the record is kept.

Related: what a DPA is, what a sub-processor is, and notice windows.

What this page is not

It is not legal advice, and it is not a full reading of any agreement. It quotes published pages on the dates shown; your signed contract and any opt-in or zero-data arrangement you hold govern.

Xither Staff Writer · reviewed September 30, 2026. Quotes are read from the record when the page is served.