Privacy Policy

AI Model Buffet is operated by AI Model Buffet . Contact for privacy questions: support@aimodelbuffet.com.

What we store

• Account: your email address, name (if you give one), a hashed password or the ID of the sign-in provider you used, and sign-in sessions (with IP address and browser type, kept for security).
• Credits and purchases: your credit balance and every credit grant, charge and refund; order records (pack, amount, currency, status). Card details are handled by Stripe; we never see or store full card numbers.
• Support: messages you send us through tickets or email.
• Usage data: if analytics is turned on, page views and basic device information through Google Analytics or Plausible, as described in the cookie banner.

Browsing the model directory and the model pages needs no account, and we store nothing about you for it beyond the usage data above. The directory itself is a copy of OpenRouter's public model list and holds no personal data.

The chat

When you send a message in the chat, the message (and up to the last 6 messages and answers of the same conversation, at most 12,000 characters, so the model has context) is sent to our model provider, OpenRouter, which forwards it to a host that runs the model you chose: the model’s maker or another hosting provider. Every request asks OpenRouter to use only hosts that do not store prompts to train on them (OpenRouter’s data_collection: deny); our OpenRouter account also excludes such hosts. For DeepSeek V4.1 Flash we use only Together or Fireworks, not DeepSeek’s own service. Hosts process the message under their own terms to return the answer.

How long a host keeps your message differs by host (some keep it for a limited time to detect abuse):

• Anthropic (Claude Fable 5.2): Claude Fable 5.2: The maker requires 30-day data retention for this model; zero data retention is not available unless Anthropic explicitly allows it. (source). see the maker’s policy.
• All hosts: OpenRouter’s table of provider data policies.
• OpenRouter: OpenRouter’s privacy policy.

What this site stores about a chat reply:

• a task record: the model, the credits held before the reply and the credits it finally cost, the number of input and output tokens, the provider’s reported cost and where that figure came from, the host, the status (including whether the reply was empty or stopped) and the time — not your message and not the answer;
• the credit transactions for the reply: the amount held and the unused part returned after the reply (once the model host has processed the request you pay what it cost, also when the answer is empty or you stopped it), or the whole amount returned if the request failed before the host processed it;
• a daily count per account of replies that ended without any answer text (your account ID, the date and the number), used for the limit of 10 such replies per account per day;
• when an account is created, a daily count of sign-up gifts per IP address (a keyed hash of the IP address that changes every day, never the address itself), used for the limit of 2 free-credit gifts per IP address per day and deleted after the next day; if a daily limit stopped the gift, a note of that on your account (which limit, not the address);
• if a question is refused by our checks, that it happened and the rule category it matched — not the text.

The conversation itself is kept only in your browser (its local storage on this device, per page) until you start a new chat or clear this site’s data; it is not sent to our servers except as the context of your next message. Do not enter personal data in the chat.

“Notify me” on AI model pages

If you click “Notify me” on a page about a model that is not available yet, we store your account ID, the model page and the time. Nothing else is collected and nothing is sent to you yet. It is deleted when your account is deleted.

How long we keep it

• Account, credit and chat records (model, credits held and charged, token counts, cost, status and time of each reply): as long as your account exists, unless you ask us to delete your data.
• Purchase records: for as long as tax and accounting law requires.
• Daily counters: the per-IP count of sign-up gifts is deleted after the next day; the per-account counts are deleted with your account.
• Sign-in sessions expire on their own; security logs are kept for a limited time.

Who we share data with

Only the service providers that run the site: Cloudflare (hosting and database), OpenRouter and the model providers behind it (chat answers, as described above), Stripe (payments), our email provider (account emails), and the analytics provider if analytics is on. We share data with authorities only when the law requires it.

Cookies and local storage

We use a sign-in cookie, a language cookie, and local storage in your browser for preferences. Analytics cookies are used only as described in the cookie banner. A chat conversation is kept only in your browser's local storage on this device, until you start a new chat or clear this site's data.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us to access, correct, export or delete your data by writing to support@aimodelbuffet.com from the email address on your account. Depending on where you live you may also have the right to object to processing or to complain to a data protection authority.

Deleting your account and data

There is no delete button in your account yet. To delete your account and data, email support@aimodelbuffet.com from the email address on your account. We complete the request within 30 days: we delete your chat records, "Notify me" entries and daily counters, remove your name and email address from the account and close it so it can no longer be used. Order and payment records are kept for as long as tax and accounting law requires.

Age

The service is for people aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes

We will update this page when what we store or who we share it with changes; the date at the top shows the latest version.