Is there a Canadian alternative to ChatGPT?

The short answer is Raven, our AI app. We are a Canadian company, Raven is built on our own models, Raven Max and Raven Flash, its free plan includes both, and your personal information is handled under Canadian privacy law. Here is what to look for in a Canadian alternative to ChatGPT, how Raven answers each point, and how to start today.

What should you look for in a Canadian alternative to ChatGPT?

• Who makes it. A company that is Canadian in fact: incorporated here, headquartered here, and answering to Canadian law.
• The privacy law behind it. The law decides what a company may do with your personal information and what you can do about it.
• What happens to your content. Whether it is kept, how it is protected and whose models it trains, in writing.
• The models you get. Which models the free plan includes, and whether the strongest one is among them.
• Work you can use. Memory you control, real files, chats you can share and answers you can check.

Who makes Raven?

We do. We are a federally incorporated Canadian company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and a Canadian frontier AI lab: our researchers and engineers built the Raven model family, DCode and the DipoleML API. Raven is built on our two models, Raven Max, our flagship reasoning model, and Raven Flash, built for low latency and high volume. Both are on every plan, Free included.

What does a Canadian company mean for your privacy?

Your personal information is handled under Canadian privacy law. Under PIPEDA you can ask to see what we hold about you and ask us to correct it, by writing to privacy@dipoleml.com, and if we do not resolve a concern, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

What you send is encrypted in transit and at rest. Your content is kept, and it is used to develop, improve and train our own models; it is never sold, never used for advertising and never used to train models for anyone else. Access to stored content is limited to the team members who need it to operate and improve the service. When you are signed in, your chats are saved so they are there on your other devices, and you can delete any chat at any time.

How we protect your data walks through it step by step, and Why Canada needs its own frontier AI lab explains why we build here. The Privacy Policy is the full statement.

What does Raven do?

• Memory you can see and edit. Raven remembers lasting facts across conversations, such as your work and how you like answers. Read the list in Settings, change a line, remove one, or clear it all. How Raven remembers has the details.
• Real files. Ask for a report, a deck, a fixed page or a sheet, and Raven makes a real .docx, .pptx, .pdf or .xlsx in the chat, as our story on files shows.
• Shared chats. Bring people into a chat as View only, to read along, or Collaborate, to take part.
• Research with sources. For a question that needs the live web, Raven offers deeper research and comes back with numbered sources you can open.
• Links you paste. Paste a web address and Raven reads the page before it answers.

How do Raven and ChatGPT compare on the basics?

Each column comes from that app's own pages: the free plan under the name its page gives it, and what its pricing page lists for that plan. We describe ChatGPT only as its maker does.

ChatGPT is made by OpenAI. Its pricing page lists a Free plan, with access on the web, iOS and Android.

Comparing more free plans? The best free AI chat apps in 2026 sets Raven Free beside the others.

How do I switch?

Create your free account from the Raven page, and when you want more room, compare the plans on the pricing page.

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