Skyflow alternative
If you've been looking at Skyflow 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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Change one import line. Your code keeps working.
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Free up to 50k requests. $99/mo for 1M. No 'contact sales' until you're actually at enterprise scale.
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Run on Hetzner, AWS, GCP, or in your own VPC with one docker-compose. Same binaries.
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PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, scanned documents (OCR). Most competitors charge for this separately.
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Paste your customer roster, get tokenization on every prompt that mentions them.
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Structured logs ready for SOC 2 + HIPAA + GDPR assessors.
• Polymorphic encryption with operations on encrypted data
• Compliance posture (PCI, HIPAA, GDPR) built-in for enterprise procurement
• Battle-tested at scale with named fintech customers
• Vault model fits orgs that want centralized PII storage, not just AI
• Transparent self-serve pricing — no 'contact sales' for sub-enterprise tiers
• Drop-in SDK ships in minutes (`import { OpenAI } from "@cypherz/sdk/openai"`)
• File pipeline built-in: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, images with OCR
• Per-project custom name/company dictionaries out of the box
• Self-host the whole stack with one docker-compose
Skyflow uses custom enterprise pricing based on platform fees, data subjects, and regions. Expect five-figure annual minimums. Cypherz starts at $0/month with 50k requests, $99/month for 1M, $499/month for 5M.
Common questions
You bounced off Skyflow's sales cycle Your minimum-viable-AI feature doesn't justify a five-figure contract You need to ship a PII-safe AI integration this sprint, not next quarter.
For developer-shaped AI integrations, yes. For enterprise data-privacy-vault deployments, Skyflow has been in the space longer and has more enterprise-specific certifications. We're catching up fast.
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.
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.
Get started
Sign up free, drop the SDK in, ship the same feature Skyflow would let you ship — usually in less time.
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