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Protecto alternative

The Protecto alternative for developers shipping AI features.

If you've been looking at Protecto 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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    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 Protecto does well

• Tight GCP marketplace integration

• HIPAA / GDPR / CCPA compliance positioning

• Context-preserving format — preserves output structure

Where Cypherz fits better

• Cloud-agnostic — not tied to GCP

• Drop-in SDK with OpenAI/Anthropic wrappers

• File pipeline (PDF/DOCX/XLSX/images via OCR)

• Transparent self-serve pricing

Pricing comparison

Protecto is largely enterprise contact-sales. Cypherz is self-serve from $0/mo.

Common questions

Frequently asked.

Why are people moving from Protecto to Cypherz?

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

Does Cypherz have feature parity with Protecto?

For developer-shaped AI integrations, yes. For enterprise data-privacy-vault deployments, Protecto 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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Sign up free, drop the SDK in, ship the same feature Protecto would let you ship — usually in less time.

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