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Microsoft Presidio alternative

The Microsoft Presidio alternative for developers shipping AI features.

If you've been looking at Microsoft Presidio and bounced off the pricing, the sales motion, or the time-to-first-request, Cypherz is built for you. Same privacy guarantees, drop-in SDK, self-serve from day one.

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  • 01

    Drop-in SDK

    Change one import line. Your code keeps working.

  • 02

    Transparent pricing

    Free up to 50k requests. $99/mo for 1M. No 'contact sales' until you're actually at enterprise scale.

  • 03

    Self-host or hosted

    Run on Hetzner, AWS, GCP, or in your own VPC with one docker-compose. Same binaries.

  • 04

    File pipeline built-in

    PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, scanned documents (OCR). Most competitors charge for this separately.

  • 05

    Custom name + company dictionaries

    Paste your customer roster, get tokenization on every prompt that mentions them.

  • 06

    Audit-grade log out of the box

    Structured logs ready for SOC 2 + HIPAA + GDPR assessors.

What Microsoft Presidio does well

• Free, open source, MIT-licensed

• Strong recognizer ecosystem in Python

• Customizable with your own recognizers

• No vendor lock-in

Where Cypherz fits better

• Not just detection — full tokenize/detokenize round-trip with vault

• Hosted proxy that wraps OpenAI/Anthropic transparently

• Per-project encryption keys, audit log, multi-tenant

• File upload pipeline (PDF/DOCX/XLSX/images with OCR)

• Dashboard, API keys, team controls — the operational surface

Pricing comparison

Presidio is free; you pay in engineering time. Cypherz starts free, with paid tiers from $99/mo when you outgrow the free quota.

Common questions

Frequently asked.

Why are people moving from Microsoft Presidio to Cypherz?

Transparent pricing, faster setup, and a developer-first SDK are the most common reasons.

Does Cypherz have feature parity with Microsoft Presidio?

For developer-shaped AI integrations, yes. For enterprise data-privacy-vault deployments, Microsoft Presidio has been in the space longer and has more enterprise-specific certifications. We're catching up fast.

How fast can I migrate?

Most teams switch in a day. Tokenization mappings are project-scoped on both sides; you set up parallel projects, dual-write for a release, then cut over.

Will Cypherz be around in 5 years?

We're independently funded, ramen-profitable territory, and the cost structure (Hetzner-based) gives us a decade of runway even with no growth. We're not going to disappear.

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