Direct answer. There is no single privacy invoice in the dataset. The cost is the price gap you accept for higher privacy marks and true compliance flags: DeepSeek V3 at $0.27/$1.10 with privacy 52, versus Mistral Large 3 at $2/$6 with privacy 92, versus Claude Opus 4.8 at $5/$25 with privacy 95. Scoring v1.0 weights privacy at 10 percent and cost at 20 percent.
Enterprise buyers often ask for a privacy price as if it were a line item next to tokens. The published Best AI Match dataset does not sell a privacy SKU. It shows the trade you pay when you refuse a cheap hosted path that fails compliance flags. DeepSeek V3 has cost efficiency 98 at $0.27 and $1.10 per million tokens, with privacy 52 and GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 false on the hosted record. Mistral Large 3 has privacy 92, EU jurisdiction, self-hostable true, and rates of $2 and $6. Claude Opus 4.8 has privacy 95 and safety 96 at $5 and $25. GPT-4o sits in the middle on privacy at 80 with HIPAA true at $2.50 and $10. Scoring version v1.0 weights cost at 20 percent and privacy at 10 percent, so a pure sticker-price sort will keep picking the cheapest row even when the data class cannot. This page measures the privacy premium as the difference between those published rate cards and flags. It does not invent a consulting fee or claim LOCK-05 coverage of all 21 models.
Privacy cost is a rate-card gap, not a fee
The dataset records privacy scores and compliance flags. It does not bill a separate "enterprise privacy" product. The spend shows up as higher token rates, self-host operations, or both. Factor definitions stay on methodology. Day-to-day controls stay on the privacy checklist.
Published rows that define the premium
| Model | Privacy | Cost eff. | API in/out | Compliance note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3 | 52 | 98 | $0.27 / $1.10 | GDPR/HIPAA/SOC2 false; China; self-hostable |
| GPT-4o | 80 | 77 | $2.50 / $10 | GDPR/HIPAA/SOC2 true; US; not self-hostable |
| Mistral Large 3 | 92 | 82 | $2 / $6 | GDPR/HIPAA/SOC2 true; EU; self-hostable |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | 95 | 62 | $5 / $25 | GDPR/HIPAA/SOC2 true; US; not self-hostable |
Figures from /data/ai-comparison-2026.json. Last verified 2026-06-26. Scoring version v1.0. Affiliate links are off.
How to read the gap for a real month
Multiply your expected tokens through the token cost calculator on each rate card. The privacy premium is the difference you accept to keep HIPAA or GDPR true, or to move to an EU self-host path. Sovereignty context is on data sovereignty comparison and Europe AI landscape.
What this page does not price
Legal review hours, DPA negotiation, and VPC plumbing are outside the JSON. So are affiliate payouts — affiliates are off and do not change scores. Grok 4.1 at privacy 66 with all compliance flags false is another reminder that a US frontier brand is not automatically an enterprise privacy bargain; see the Grok 4.1 profile.
Choose the model under the privacy constraint. Use the match engine. Do not sort only by cost efficiency.
FAQ
Is there a single enterprise privacy price in the dataset?
No. Privacy cost is the rate-card and self-host gap between low-privacy cheap rows and high-privacy rows such as Mistral Large 3 or Claude Opus 4.8.
Which Wave 2 profile has the highest privacy score?
Claude Opus 4.8 at privacy 95, then Mistral Large 3 at 92. DeepSeek V3 is 52 on the hosted record.
Does scoring treat privacy as heavily as cost?
No. Scoring v1.0 weights cost at 20 percent and privacy at 10 percent. Buyers who need privacy must override a pure cost sort.