
Which AI APIs Train on Your Data? Free Tiers, Paid APIs and Retention, Checked Against 18 Providers' Own Terms (October 2026)
Free tiers are where training happens: Google's unpaid quota outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK, Mistral's Free mode, and some OpenRouter free models. Paid APIs mostly say no. Retention is a separate question, and four providers' own docs disagree with themselves.












