Tonic Textual alternative
If you've been looking at Tonic Textual 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.
• Transformer-based PII detection — high accuracy on natural text
• Synthesis (replacement with realistic fake values, not just redaction)
• Mature LangChain integration
• Strong fit for healthcare and clinical-notes pipelines
• Per-request pricing developers can predict at quote time
• True drop-in: replace your OpenAI import line, done
• Wider built-in file support (XLSX, DOCX, images, scanned PDFs via OCR)
• Free tier with 50k req/mo; Tonic's lowest tier is Tonic Fabricate at $29/mo for a different product
Tonic Textual is pay-as-you-go per 1,000 words processed, with sublinear bulk discounts; enterprise is custom. Cypherz is flat per-month tiers with a real free tier and predictable overage.
Common questions
Transparent pricing, faster setup, and a developer-first SDK are the most common reasons.
For developer-shaped AI integrations, yes. For enterprise data-privacy-vault deployments, Tonic Textual 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 Tonic Textual would let you ship — usually in less time.
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