Alternative
A Duck.ai alternative that keeps the no-account part
Duck.ai is the right benchmark for private AI chat — no account, nothing used for training — and its limits are deliberate: a small roster of models, no image or video generation, and the refusal behaviour of the underlying vendors left fully intact. nokeep keeps the no-account promise and removes those three limits.
If Duck.ai answers your questions, use Duck.ai. It is free, it is from a company with a long privacy record, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. The reason people look for an alternative is almost always one of three things.
The three reasons people leave
It refuses. Duck.ai routes to models from the major labs, and it inherits their refusal profiles — so the medical question that gets concrete, the fiction that goes dark, and the legal question about your own situation all hit the same wall you were trying to leave.
It only does text. No image generation, no video, no editing. For anyone whose work is visual, it is half a tool.
The roster is small and chosen for you, with no way to reach a model that behaves differently.
What changes, and what does not
What does not change is the part you came for: no account, no sign-up, nothing stored on our side, and conversations that die with the tab. nokeep adds no moderation layer of its own, generates images and video, and runs every engine under a no-retention agreement that is re-checked daily.
What is different is the money. Duck.ai is free because it is a feature of a search company. nokeep is a product that has to pay for inference, so it gives you 10 free messages and 2 free images a day, no card and no sign-up and asks for credits after that — from $5, no subscription required, and still no account.
| Duck.ai | nokeep | |
|---|---|---|
| Account required | No | No |
| Chat history stored | No | No |
| Adds its own refusals | Inherits the vendors' | None added |
| Image generation | No | Yes |
| Video generation | No | Yes |
| Model roster | Small, fixed | Curated, uncensored-first |
| Cost | Free | Free tier, then credits from $5 |
Asked before you asked
Is Duck.ai actually private?
Yes, meaningfully so — no account is required and DuckDuckGo states chats are not used to train models. It is the honest benchmark in the mainstream, which is why it is the right thing to compare against rather than dismiss.
Why would I pay when Duck.ai is free?
Only if you hit its limits: refusals on legitimate topics, or needing images and video. If you do not hit them, you should not pay.
Does nokeep need an account like other paid tools?
No. Paying gives you a claim key rather than an identity — no email, no password, no profile. It is the one thing that does not change when money is involved.