Perplexity Chat Completions / Sonar API zero data retention: terms and exceptions
ZDR 0.5 · B
Short answer
Published ZDR for the Chat Completions API: no prompt or response retain, no training, billing metadata only. Covers the API only, not the consumer search product. Compute hosted on AWS in North America.
Scope and evidence
| Provider | Perplexity |
|---|---|
| Service | Chat Completions / Sonar API |
| Lane | ZDR |
| Origin |  US United States |
| License | proprietary |
| Hosting | Provider-hosted |
| Score | ZDR 0.5 · B Architectural ZDR. Nothing durably written by provider; stateful features blocked/rejected; still third-party plaintext processing |
| Evidence | Public documentation reviewed (B: published documentation) |
| Source-review date | 2026-08-25 |
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Structured breakdown
- Default posture
- Published ZDR for the Chat Completions API: no prompt or response retain, no training, billing metadata only.
- Exceptions and carve-outs
- Covers the API only, not the consumer search product. Compute hosted on AWS in North America.
Approval and setup path
Approval and setup path not yet reviewed.
Flags on this record
No exception flags on this record.
Practical questions for your agreement
- Does your signed agreement cover this exact service, model set, and feature path?
- Which retention, logging, and human-review exceptions still apply after any ZDR election?
- What configuration evidence (flags, project settings, store defaults) confirms the posture you expect?
- Do your customer commitments match what the reviewed evidence supports?
Does your agreement cover this deployment?
We can review the relevant terms, feature choices, and customer commitments, then help your team identify what to clarify or negotiate.
Sources
Trust and security
- Trust Center trust.perplexity.ai
- Security perplexity.ai
Posture ledger
seeded
ZDR 0.5 · B
Seeded from published documentation.
Full key on the scale. Method notes on methodology. Notation is always ZDR 1.0 (s,f,r) · A.