Enterprise AI Glossary · Reviewed June 2026
Zero Data Retention
A processing mode in which the model provider does not store inputs or outputs after a request completes.
What is Zero Data Retention?
Zero data retention is one of the controls procurement teams ask for when sensitive prompts must traverse an external API. It is not a substitute for keeping data local — logs, embeddings, and retrieved passages still live somewhere — but it constrains what a third party can keep. See Why Data Security Matters in AI.
Putting Zero Data Retention to work?
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