Anvax vs. ChatGPT Enterprise

ChatGPT Enterprise is a strong general assistant. But it only runs as OpenAI’s hosted service, on OpenAI’s models. Anvax runs inside your own perimeter, on the models you approve.

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At a glance

Built for different buyers.

Anvax

✓Runs on-premises, in your VPC or air-gapped
✓Data never leaves your perimeter
✓Open-weight and any-provider models
✓Redaction and audit in the data path
✓Platform pricing, not per seat
✓Permission-aware search across your systems

ChatGPT Enterprise

!OpenAI’s cloud only
!Regional storage, with processing exceptions
!OpenAI models only
!Admin controls and log export
!Per-seat annual contracts
!A limited set of synced apps

What sets Anvax apart

AI your regulator can inspect, on infrastructure you control.

Runs where your data lives

On your servers, your private cloud or fully air-gapped. The same product in every deployment.

Governance in the data path

Redaction, prompt checks and model routing run before any model sees a request, with an audit entry for each.

Any model, no lock-in

Open-weight models on your hardware, or approved hosted providers, chosen per request by your policy.

Detailed comparison

Twelve questions a regulated buyer should ask.

Grouped the way risk, security and procurement teams review an AI platform.

1Deployment & data sovereignty 2Governance & security 3Knowledge & models 4Cost & rollout

Deployment & data sovereignty

Parameter

Anvax

ChatGPT Enterprise

Where it runs

✓Runs on your servers, in your private cloud or fully air-gapped.

✓The same product in every deployment, not a reduced on-prem edition.

!Runs only as OpenAI’s hosted service.

!No on-premises, private-cloud or air-gapped option.

Data residency

✓Index, prompts, outputs and logs stay in infrastructure you control.

✓Nothing leaves your perimeter unless a policy you wrote allows it.

✓At-rest residency in selected regions for in-scope content.

!Authentication, routing and some processing may happen elsewhere.

Vendor dependency

✓Keeps working if a model provider changes its terms, prices or regions.

✓Swap models or infrastructure without re-platforming.

!Tied to OpenAI’s models, roadmap and pricing.

!Leaving means re-platforming every workflow.

Governance & security

Parameter

Anvax

ChatGPT Enterprise

Sensitive data

✓Personal data and account identifiers are redacted before any model sees them.

✓Redactions are shown to the user, so nothing disappears silently.

!No built-in redaction before content reaches the model.

!Sensitive-data control relies on third-party DLP tools.

Prompt and model controls

✓Prompt-injection checks run on every request.

✓The model gateway enforces which model may see which data.

!Safety filtering is set by OpenAI, not by your policy.

!No per-request routing rules you define.

Audit trail

✓An immutable audit entry for every answer: sources, model and redactions.

✓Records an examiner can read, exported from storage you own.

✓Compliance API exports conversation logs to your tools.

!You assemble the audit trail yourself.

Permissions

✓Inherits permissions from every source system.

✓Anvax can narrow access further, never widen it.

✓Connected apps follow source permissions.

!Over-shared source content surfaces to anyone with access.

Knowledge & models

Parameter

Anvax

ChatGPT Enterprise

Model choice

✓Run open-weight models on your own hardware.

✓Route approved requests to any hosted provider, after redaction.

!OpenAI models only.

!No open-weight or self-hosted models.

Enterprise search

✓Permission-aware search across documents, tickets, CRM and data platforms.

✓Every answer cites the source it came from.

!Company knowledge across a limited set of synced apps.

!Other apps are queried live at question time.

Workflows and agents

✓Ready-made workflows for regulated teams, editable by your staff.

✓Agents run inside the same governance pipeline as chat.

✓Custom GPTs and agents with API actions.

!General-purpose, not built for regulated workflows.

Cost & rollout

Parameter

Anvax

ChatGPT Enterprise

Pricing model

✓Platform pricing, not per seat.

✓Roll out to every employee without headcount driving the bill.

!Per-seat annual contracts, negotiated with sales.

!Credits-based billing for advanced features.

Time to value

✓First team live within a few weeks.

✓Start with one department and two or three workflows, then expand.

✓Quick to start for general use.

!Regulated rollouts wait on risk review of a hosted service.

ChatGPT Enterprise details from OpenAI’s help centre and release notes and independent reviews, checked October 2026. Features change often; confirm with OpenAI before relying on them.

Which is right for you

Choose by your constraint.

Anvax is best for

→Regulated teams whose data cannot leave their perimeter
→Organisations that need on-premises or air-gapped AI
→Teams that must show an examiner how every answer was produced
→Companies that want model choice without lock-in

ChatGPT Enterprise is best for

→Teams that mainly need writing, coding and analysis help
→Organisations comfortable with a cloud-only service
→Companies standardising on OpenAI models
→Low-risk work that never touches regulated data

FAQs

Only in part. Residency stores in-scope customer content at rest in your chosen region, and in-region inference is available in a few regions. Authentication, routing and some processing can still happen elsewhere, and the service always runs in OpenAI’s cloud. Anvax runs entirely inside your environment.

See Anvax run inside your own perimeter.

We will show you the same tasks you use ChatGPT for, with redaction, routing and an audit record on every request.

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