Bearly
Bearly, Inc. · Productivity · Other
Bearly is a private AI workspace that runs Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok with zero data retention, plus research, coding, and document tools in one app.
About Bearly
What Is Bearly
Bearly is a multi-model AI workspace from Bearly, Inc., a U.S. company that hosts the service on its own infrastructure. You sign in once and get frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, and a few others, with research, file, coding, and media tools arranged around the chat box.
Privacy is the reason most people switch. Chats and files are encrypted with keys held on your devices, a request reaches the model with no name, account, or IP attached, and the provider keeps nothing after it answers. Every model carries a zero data retention or Standard label, and one switch hides the routes that can't prove the stricter term. That last part is unusual. Most multi-model apps resell API access and leave retention to the lab, while this one is an end-to-end encrypted AI workspace with its own terms.
The product began as an AI research assistant for reading and summarizing documents, and it still suits that habit. What changed is the width: agents, deep research, image and video generation, a code interpreter, meeting transcripts, and team projects now share the account. The tradeoffs show up on the bill. Your subscription converts into credits at cost, so heavy video or council use can drain a month in an afternoon, and Skills, local files, and browser control need the desktop app.
Getting Started
- Sign up at bearly.ai with Google, Microsoft, or an email address. The free plan doesn't ask for a card and includes a daily credit allowance.
- Pick a model in the chat box. Hover the badge beside its name to see whether the route is zero data retention, or open Settings, then Privacy, and turn on ZDR models only.
- Send a prompt or drop in a file. For a harder question, run deep research or type /council on a paid plan to put the same request to several labs at once.
- Keep the result in a project, share the chat, or export the file. Install the desktop app when you need Skills, local files, or Chrome control.
Product Information
A quick look at Bearly's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Consultants and lawyers handling client material
- Researchers who compare sources
- Small teams without an IT department
Tasks
- Pressure-testing an answer
- Turning a pile of PDFs into a brief
- Drafting and shipping in one place
Scenarios
- A question you'd never type into a public chatbot
- A Monday research sprint
- A client call that needs minutes
Key features
Multi-Model Chat With Zero Data Retention
The chat window carries models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, GLM, and MiniMax, and you switch per conversation rather than per subscription. Each model shows a ZDR or Standard badge, and the privacy setting can hide every route without a verified zero data retention term. Requests arrive without your identity attached, so a lab can't tie an answer to your account. That makes the multi-model chat useful for work you wouldn't paste into a consumer app.
Council of Experts
Type /council and Bearly sends one question to as many as five models from different labs, then writes a synthesis that marks agreement and splits. Bearly's own September 2026 study found that when five models agreed, they were right on 103 of 103 document questions and 106 of 106 reasoning questions. The study asked models directly rather than through Council, and agreement is not a guarantee. The feature needs Pro or higher.
Deep Research and Document Q&A
Web and image search, deep research, Scholar, YouTube, and people search all feed the same answer box. Upload a contract, a paper, or a deck and ask about a clause or a figure; the reply points to the page it used. Deep Summary compresses long reports, and memory keeps earlier work searchable through vector search.
Agents, Skills, and Routines
Routines run recurring jobs on a schedule, cowork puts an agent to work beside you in a project, and skills package a method you reuse, such as a review checklist or a report format. Skills live in the desktop app and can run local actions, which is why Bearly asks you to read the source before installing one from a third party.
Creation Tools for Images, Video, Documents, and Code
Image generation covers Gemini, Flux, GPT Image, and Qwen models, while video covers Kling and MiniMax. A document editor, charts, canvas, and a code interpreter sit beside them, so a report can go from prompt to chart to exported file without a second tab. Grammar correction handles the final pass.
Desktop Control, Connectors, and API Access
The desktop build adds a Bearly browser, Chrome control, computer use, and access to local files and commands. Connectors link outside apps, and MCP servers can run locally or remotely. The Bearly API accepts the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs after a base URL and key swap, bills to the same credits, and routes only to providers with zero data retention.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Privacy you can point at: device-held keys, no identity on requests, and a ZDR filter that hides unverified routes.
- One bill for several labs: Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok sit in the same picker, and credits spend across all of them at cost.
- No rate limits on paid plans: credits set the pace, not hourly message caps or cooldown timers.
- Real tools around the chat: research, code, documents, images, and meeting transcripts share one account and one memory.
- API on the same plan: change the base URL in an existing SDK and test against the same credit balance.
Cons
- Credits vanish without warning: video renders and council runs cost far more than a chat message, and nothing estimates the price before you send.
- Several features need the desktop app: Skills, local files, and browser control don't work in the browser or on iOS.
- Council sits behind a paid plan: the feature that separates Bearly from a plain model switcher starts at Pro.
- The model list moves: Bearly can add, restrict, or remove a model at any time, and a removed model breaks API calls with a model_not_found error.
Frequently asked questions
Bearly is a subscription AI workspace that puts models from several labs in one app, with encrypted chats, zero data retention routing, research tools, and creation tools. It runs in the browser, on desktop, and on iOS.
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