Cypherz vs Skyflow
Skyflow built the category. Founded in 2019, it's raised over $100M (last round was a $30M Series B-II in March 2024 led by Khosla Ventures) and serves regulated fintech and healthtech enterprises with a polymorphic encryption + tokenization vault. Cypherz is the developer-first answer to the same problem — drop-in SDK, transparent pricing, ship in minutes instead of months.
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Polymorphic encryption with operations on encrypted data
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Compliance posture (PCI, HIPAA, GDPR) built-in for enterprise procurement
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Transparent self-serve pricing — no 'contact sales' for sub-enterprise tiers
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Drop-in SDK ships in minutes (`import { OpenAI } from "@cypherz/sdk/openai"`)
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File pipeline built-in: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, images with OCR
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Per-project custom name/company dictionaries out of the box
• 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.
• 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
| Dimension | Skyflow | Cypherz |
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| Time to first request | Weeks (vendor onboarding) | Minutes |
| Pricing model | Custom / enterprise | Self-serve, transparent |
| Developer experience | Vault-first | Drop-in SDK |
| Self-hostable | Limited | Yes (docker-compose) |
| File pipeline | Add-on / professional services | PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, images, OCR |
| Custom name/company lists | Available in enterprise tiers | Free on every tier |
Common questions
For developer-shaped AI integrations — yes, and you'll likely ship faster. For enterprise-shaped data privacy vault deployments with central PII storage as the goal, Skyflow remains the more mature pick.
Yes. Tokenization mappings are project-scoped on both products; you can rotate keys and re-tokenize within a maintenance window. We've helped customers migrate in under a day.
Yes, at Business and Enterprise tiers we sign BAAs (HIPAA) and DPAs (GDPR). Free and Pro tiers do not include signed agreements but use the same encryption and audit primitives.
EU (Hetzner — Helsinki and Falkenstein) by default for the managed product. Self-host anywhere with one docker-compose command.
Get started
Sign up free, create a project, mint an API key. Drop our SDK in. The first tokenized request hits before you finish your coffee.
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