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Two platforms.
Same questions.
Leonardo.AI
IMAGE / VIDEO / AUDIO GENERATION
PROMPT
Users retain ownership of prompts. Leonardo's ToS grants Leonardo a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, and display user prompts and generated images.
OUTPUT
Users own outputs generated on paid plans. Free plan outputs are licensed under Creative Commons and restricted for commercial use.
TRAINING
Leonardo may use community-generated images and prompts to train and fine-tune its AI models, particularly images shared to the community feed.
COMMERCIAL
Commercial use requires a paid subscription. Paid plan outputs can be used commercially subject to content policy restrictions.
162 verified findings across the displayed surfaces.
Perplexity AI
ENTERPRISE SEARCH / PRODUCTIVITY
PROMPT
Users retain ownership of their queries and uploaded content per Perplexity's Terms.
OUTPUT
Perplexity does not claim ownership of AI-generated answers. Output IP status is not explicitly addressed.
TRAINING
Privacy Policy (effective February 5, 2026) states Perplexity uses data 'to improve the Services (including our AI models).' Opt-out is explicitly available in settings. Email/calendar integration data is explicitly excluded from AI training: 'we do not use or disclose Email Service Information to create, train, improve or fine-tune AI models.'
COMMERCIAL
Commercial use governed by plan tier. API use is explicitly commercial-use-permitted.
118 verified findings across the displayed surfaces.
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AIRIN SUMMARY
Leonardo.AI carries highly permissive license terms; Perplexity AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: LEONARDO.AI NOT RECOMMENDED · PERPLEXITY AI NOT RECOMMENDED
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⚡ INTERACTIVE RISK COMPARISON HEATMAP
| RISK SURFACE | LEONARDO.AI | PERPLEXITY AI |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
* Click any cell in the heatmap matrix to scroll directly to its verbatim policy citations below.
📂 Intellectual Property & Model Training
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SURFACE 01
Prompt Ownership
Leonardo.AI
MEDHIGH
Users retain ownership of prompts. Leonardo's ToS grants Leonardo a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, and display user prompts and generated images.
“**8.8** If you (if you are an individual) or any of your personnel have any Moral Rights in any material provided, used or prepared in connection with these Terms, you agree to (and will procure that your personnel) consent to our use or infringement of those Moral Rights.”
Perplexity AI
MEDHIGH
Users retain ownership of their queries and uploaded content per Perplexity's Terms.
“- Your input and output, such as questions, prompts and other content that you input, upload or submit to the Services, and the output that you create, and any collections or pages that you generate using the Services (“ **Service Interaction Information**”). Service Interaction…”
O
SURFACE 02
Output Ownership
Leonardo.AI
MEDHIGH
Users own outputs generated on paid plans. Free plan outputs are licensed under Creative Commons and restricted for commercial use.
“**8.9** Due to the nature of our technology, and artificial intelligence in general, outputs may not be unique, and other users may receive similar Outputs from the Services. Your ownership above does not extend to other users’ Outputs.”
Perplexity AI
HIGH
Perplexity does not claim ownership of AI-generated answers. Output IP status is not explicitly addressed.
No citation available
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SURFACE 03
Model Training
Leonardo.AI
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Leonardo may use community-generated images and prompts to train and fine-tune its AI models, particularly images shared to the community feed.
“For Service improvement (including analytics and machine learning):** We may analyse your Content and related data in your account to improve the Service, and to train our algorithms, models, and AI products and services using machine learning to develop, improve and provide our…”
By default, user content is used for model training. Opt-out requires a paid subscription and use of the private generation mode — free-tier users have no opt-out.
Perplexity AI
LOW⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Privacy Policy (effective February 5, 2026) states Perplexity uses data 'to improve the Services (including our AI models).' Opt-out is explicitly available in settings. Email/calendar integration data is explicitly excluded from AI training: 'we do not use or disclose Email Service Information to create, train, improve or fine-tune AI models.'
“You may also have the ability to sync your third party email account or calendar (such as Gmail and Google Calendar) with the Services. If you choose to sync these accounts, we will have access to your contacts and information from the email messages and calendar appointments in…”
C
SURFACE 04
Commercial Use
Leonardo.AI
LOW⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Commercial use requires a paid subscription. Paid plan outputs can be used commercially subject to content policy restrictions.
“**(f)** Use our Platform in any way that involves service bureau use, outsourcing, renting, reselling, sublicensing, concurrent use of a single user login, or time-sharing;”
Perplexity AI
HIGH
Commercial use governed by plan tier. API use is explicitly commercial-use-permitted.
No citation available
📂 Data Privacy & Governance
D
SURFACE 05
Data Privacy
Leonardo.AI
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
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“We will retain your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with the Service or for as long as we have a valid purpose to do so. In particular, we may retain your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve…”
Retention is tied to open-ended criteria including 'valid purpose' and 'enforce our agreements'. Backup copies may be retained indefinitely until deletion is technically possible, with no stated maximum retention period.
Perplexity AI
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Standard plan: personal, non-commercial use only. Enterprise terms at perplexity.ai/hub/legal/enterprise-terms-of-service. Email/calendar integration data explicitly excluded from AI model training.
“We retain your information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. When determining the length of time to retain your information, we consider various criteria, including whether we need the information to continue to provide you…”
No fixed retention schedules are provided; retention is effectively open-ended tied to broad business purposes.
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SURFACE 06
Tier Differences
Leonardo.AI
LOWHIGH
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“**4.1** Once you have created your Account, you may choose a Subscription. The Subscriptions we offer will be set out on our Platform, including details of each Subscription’s features and limitations, Subscription Fees and Subscription Periods.”
Perplexity AI
LOWHIGH
Standard plan: personal, non-commercial use only. Enterprise terms at perplexity.ai/hub/legal/enterprise-terms-of-service. Email/calendar integration data explicitly excluded from AI model training.
“ This Privacy Policy describes how Perplexity AI, Inc. (“ we ”, “ us ,” “ our ”) collects, uses and discloses information about individuals who use our websites ( www.perplexity.ai and https://labs.perplexity.ai ) to access the free version of our product or Perplexity Pro or Per…”