Don’t see a lot of talk about this generally.
I have tried Lumo and all the models available on duck.ai. The gpt-oss-120B and Haiku 4.5 with reasoning are the best IMO. I also like that gpt-oss is also likely not touching OpenAI servers at all, though I don’t know where the model is running.
I must say though I am very impressed with Ask Brave. I’ve not seen anyone recommend it. It uses a combination of Llama and Qwen IIRC. It integrates web-search really well and integrates it with Brave’s search indexing. IMO Brave also has the best search engine outside of Google. I have to say Ask Brave seems to be the best privacy-friendly cloud-based option available. It also doesn’t say no so much either like the better models on duck.ai.
What does the community think?
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Claude AI with opt outs in a subscription, Claude AI with an API key, openrouter to GLM 5.2 with no data retention filter applied.
OpenAI is worse privacy policy wise and their opt outs are buried.
European AI models suck, i have 0 desire to use them personally right now.
I’ve tried everything you mentioned. Lumo is currently among the best out there. It’s multimodal, whereas duck.ai falls quite short in that regard. What’s more, I think GLM 5.2 (the model behind Lumo 2.0 Max) is one of the best models on the market right now.
I use Claude (Fable 5, Opus 4.6 and 4.8, and Sonnet 4.6 and 5) for work. These models remain the most reliable and give me the fewest headaches. Even so, for personal use, GLM 5.2 more than suffices. On top of that, NanoGPT offers GLM 5.2 TEE, if I recall correctly.
Lastly, I used to rely on Brave Leo and Ask Brave. They remain excellent alternatives, as you point out.
Private Cloud Compute. Anything else can’t prove that they really followed the privacy policy.