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ZDR Rankings

Independent ranking of AI endpoints by residual data retention (The ZDR Scale). Lower is better. Accredited to zdr.dev.

Last verified 2026-08-24 · 33 endpoints · dense rank by score

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Sorted by score ascending (0.0 first), then evidence grade strength, then name. Dense rank: equal scores share a rank; the next distinct score takes the next integer. Origin flag shows lab country. Self-host means published weights can run on customer infrastructure; Provider-hosted means API-only. PRC-origin sink is a registry custody view, not this ranking.

Rank Provider / service Score Lane Hosting License Δ Last verified
1 United StatesAWSBedrock, data_retention_mode:none, non-covered models aws/bedrock · mode:none ZDR 0.5 · A ZDR Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
1 United StatesFireworks AIopen models fireworks/api · open models ZDR 0.5 (f) · B ZDR Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
1 United StatesGroqZDR toggled groq/api · zdr toggled ZDR 0.5 · B ZDR Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
1 United StatesOpenRouterhop, zdr enforced openrouter/api · zdr ZDR 0.5 (f,x) · B ZDR Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
1 United StatesPerplexityChat Completions / Sonar API perplexity/api · chat completions ZDR 0.5 · B ZDR Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-25
1 United StatesxAIZDR toggled xai/api · zdr toggled ZDR 0.5 (r) · B ZDR Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
1 United StatesCerebrasinference API cerebras/api · inference ZDR 0.5 · C ZDR Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
1 United StatesTogether AIserverless default together/api · serverless default ZDR 0.5 (x) · C ZDR Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
2 United StatesAnthropicZDR org, non-covered models anthropic/api · zdr org, non-covered ZDR 1.0 (s,f,r) · A ZDR Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
2 United StatesOpenAIfirst-party API, ZDR approved openai/api · zdr org ZDR 1.0 (s,f,r) · A ZDR Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
2 ChinaZ.AIinternational Model API (api.z.ai), not mainland BigModel z.ai/api · international ZDR 1.0 (s) · A ZDR Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
2 CanadaCohereSaaS API, ZDR approved cohere/api · zdr ZDR 1.0 (s,r) · B ZDR Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-25
2 United StatesGoogleVertex / Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform google/vertex · geap ZDR 1.0 (s,f,r) · B Enterprise Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
2 United StatesMicrosoftAzure OpenAI / Foundry, modified abuse monitoring microsoft/azure-openai · foundry ZDR 1.0 (s,f,h,r) · B Enterprise Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
2 FranceMistralZDR approved mistral/api · zdr approved ZDR 1.0 (f) · B ZDR Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
3 United StatesAnthropicFable 5 / Mythos 5, all platforms anthropic/claude-fable-5 · all platforms ZDR 2.0 (s,h) · A Enterprise Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
3 United StatesAnthropicfirst-party API, default anthropic/api · default ZDR 2.0 (s) · B API default Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
3 United StatesGoogleGemini Developer API, paid tier google/gemini-api · paid tier ZDR 2.0 (f,h) · B API default Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
3 United StatesGroqfirst-party API, default groq/api · default ZDR 2.0 · B API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
3 FranceMistralfirst-party API, default mistral/api · default ZDR 2.0 (f) · B API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
3 United StatesOpenAIfirst-party API, default openai/api · default ZDR 2.0 (f,h) · B API default Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
3 United StatesReplicatePredictions API, not the web UI replicate/api · predictions ZDR 2.0 (f) · B API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
3 United StatesxAIfirst-party API, default xai/api · default ZDR 2.0 · B API default Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-25
4 ChinaAlibabaQwen / Model Studio API alibaba/qwen · model studio ZDR 3.0 (f) · B API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
4 United StatesCloudflareWorkers AI API cloudflare/workers-ai ZDR 3.0 (f) · B API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
4 United StatesHugging FaceInference Providers hop huggingface/inference · router ZDR 3.0 (x) · B API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
4 United StatesOpenRouterhop, default routing openrouter/api · default ZDR 3.0 (x) · B API default Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-25
4 United StatesMetaMeta Model API meta/model-api ZDR 3.0 · C API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
5 United StatesNVIDIAAPI Catalog / hosted NIM trial nvidia/api-catalog · trial ZDR 4.0 (s,x) · A API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-25
5 CanadaCohereSaaS Platform API, default cohere/api · default ZDR 4.0 (s,h,r,x) · B API default Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-25
5 ChinaDeepSeekfirst-party API deepseek/api · first-party ZDR 4.0 · B API default Self-host open-weight seeded 2026-08-24 (registry)
5 ChinaMiniMaxOpen Platform first-party API minimax/api · first-party ZDR 4.0 (s) · B API default Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-25
5 ChinaMoonshotKimi API, first-party moonshot/kimi-api · first-party ZDR 4.0 (f) · B API default Provider-hosted proprietary seeded 2026-08-25

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Methodology

We score published promises. The unit is the endpoint (model × platform × feature), not the company. Lower is better on the countdown scale; 0.0 (Sovereign) is none issued in the seed. This board is not an LM Arena capability Elo and does not invent votes. It is a public comparative board of residual data retention claims, analogous in presentation only.

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Seed board locked 2026-08-24. Scored moves will appear here.

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