Trust
Your data, your boundary.
Cognee is open source. You don't have to take our word for how your data is handled — your team can read the code, run it on your own infrastructure, and verify every claim on this page.
Deployment boundaries
You decide where memory lives. Every deployment option draws a clear line around your data.
Local
Runs fully on your machine. Your data never leaves your infrastructure, and the open-source code is yours to audit line by line.
Cognee Cloud
Managed deployment hosted on AWS, GCP, and Azure, with data isolation per tenant and automatic updates handled for you.
On-prem & private cloud
Dedicated deployment inside your own environment with full data control, plus a dedicated architecture review with our team.
Compliance posture
GDPR-aligned processes
We work with heyData to keep our data protection processes aligned with GDPR requirements.
EU AI Act readiness
Through the same heyData program, we track our readiness against the EU AI Act as it comes into force.
EU-based company
Cognee is built by a Berlin-based team operating under EU law. Our Impressum is public.
DPA on request
A data processing agreement is available on request — write to info@cognee.ai.
Contact us for our latest security documentation.
Open source as a security property
There is no black-box memory in cognee. The pipelines that ingest, structure, and search your data are public code — auditable by your security team before a single byte of your data touches them.
Read the code on GitHub →