ElevenLabs vs. Midjourney: data protection per plan

yes (public DPA, as of 2026-04-08; applies to 'Self-Serve Services' = all non-Enterprise services; Free accounts are not expressly mentioned)

yes (public DPA, as of 2026-04-08; for self-serve customers, the Terms constitute the contract)

yes (public DPA, as of 2026-04-08; for self-serve customers, the Terms constitute the contract)

yes (DPA; pricing page names 'Custom terms & assurance around DPA/SLAs')

not publicly documented (no data processing agreement (DPA) is mentioned in the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy; www.midjourney.com/dpa returns 404. Help Center "Group Plans & Corporate Billing" (q9): Midjourney does not offer, among other things, "Terms and policy negotiations" or "Participation in vendor, supplier, or security processes (such as signing organization-required forms)")

not publicly documented (no data processing agreement (DPA) is mentioned in the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy; www.midjourney.com/dpa returns 404. Help Center "Group Plans & Corporate Billing" (q9): Midjourney does not offer, among other things, "Terms and policy negotiations" or "Participation in vendor, supplier, or security processes (such as signing organization-required forms)")

not publicly documented (no data processing agreement (DPA) is mentioned in the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy; www.midjourney.com/dpa returns 404. Help Center "Group Plans & Corporate Billing" (q9): Midjourney does not offer, among other things, "Terms and policy negotiations" or "Participation in vendor, supplier, or security processes (such as signing organization-required forms)")

not publicly documented (no data processing agreement (DPA) is mentioned in the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy; www.midjourney.com/dpa returns 404. Help Center "Group Plans & Corporate Billing" (q9): Midjourney does not offer, among other things, "Terms and policy negotiations" or "Participation in vendor, supplier, or security processes (such as signing organization-required forms)")

Privacy Policy (as of 2026-10-09): ElevenLabs processes inputs and outputs as well as usage data to research, develop, train and improve AI models (legitimate interest or consent where required); opt-out at any time in the account under 'Terms and Privacy' > 'Data use', effective only for data from the opt-out onwards. Terms (EEA version and non-EEA version, each as of 2026-10-09) section 4(i): same opt-out option for content. Trust Center (Subprocessors): for Google Cloud and Anthropic, 'LLM Services may also be used for research, development, training, and product improvement purposes, to the extent permitted under the applicable agreement with the customer'. ZRM documentation: agreements with all third-party LLM providers 'expressly prohibit such providers from training their models on customer content'. Documentation does not differentiate between the self-serve plans.

Privacy Policy (as of 2026-10-09): ElevenLabs processes inputs and outputs as well as usage data to research, develop, train and improve AI models (legitimate interest or consent where required); opt-out at any time in the account under 'Terms and Privacy' > 'Data use', effective only for data from the opt-out onwards. Terms (EEA version and non-EEA version, each as of 2026-10-09) section 4(i): same opt-out option for content. Trust Center (Subprocessors): for Google Cloud and Anthropic, 'LLM Services may also be used for research, development, training, and product improvement purposes, to the extent permitted under the applicable agreement with the customer'. ZRM documentation: agreements with all third-party LLM providers 'expressly prohibit such providers from training their models on customer content'. Documentation does not differentiate between the self-serve plans.

Privacy Policy (as of 2026-10-09): ElevenLabs processes inputs and outputs as well as usage data to research, develop, train and improve AI models (legitimate interest or consent where required); opt-out at any time in the account under 'Terms and Privacy' > 'Data use', effective only for data from the opt-out onwards. Terms (EEA version and non-EEA version, each as of 2026-10-09) section 4(i): same opt-out option for content. Trust Center (Subprocessors): for Google Cloud and Anthropic, 'LLM Services may also be used for research, development, training, and product improvement purposes, to the extent permitted under the applicable agreement with the customer'. ZRM documentation: agreements with all third-party LLM providers 'expressly prohibit such providers from training their models on customer content'. Documentation does not differentiate between the self-serve plans.

Help Center ('Is my data used to improve ElevenLabs’ AI models?'): 'By default, we don’t train on any data from our Enterprise customers, other than as may be necessary to provide services to such Enterprise customers.' ZRM documentation: agreements with all third-party LLM providers 'expressly prohibit such providers from training their models on customer content, whether or not Zero Retention Mode is enabled'. Enterprise contract texts are not public.

Under 'Applicability', the Privacy Policy lists, among the data collected, "data collected through the process of training Midjourney machine learning algorithms" and "data collected from third party sources" ("public databases, commercial data sources, and the public internet"). The Terms of Service (Section 4) grant Midjourney, for inputs and assets, a "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute". Public Summary of Training Content (q5, Section 2.4): for the question "Was data from user interactions with the AI model (e.g. user input and prompts) used to train the model?" "Yes" is ticked (modalities text and image); addition: "Midjourney adheres to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, as applicable, for user data training." The AB2013 documentation (q6) names as a training source, among others, "data our users provide through use of the Midjourney service". An opt-out is not documented in the primary sources retrieved. Visibility: by default, content is publicly viewable and remixable (ToS Section 4: "By default, Your Content is publicly viewable and remixable"); according to the plan comparison and Stealth documentation, Stealth Mode is not available in this plan.

Under 'Applicability', the Privacy Policy lists, among the data collected, "data collected through the process of training Midjourney machine learning algorithms" and "data collected from third party sources" ("public databases, commercial data sources, and the public internet"). The Terms of Service (Section 4) grant Midjourney, for inputs and assets, a "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute". Public Summary of Training Content (q5, Section 2.4): for the question "Was data from user interactions with the AI model (e.g. user input and prompts) used to train the model?" "Yes" is ticked (modalities text and image); addition: "Midjourney adheres to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, as applicable, for user data training." The AB2013 documentation (q6) names as a training source, among others, "data our users provide through use of the Midjourney service". An opt-out is not documented in the primary sources retrieved. Visibility: by default, content is publicly viewable and remixable (ToS Section 4: "By default, Your Content is publicly viewable and remixable"); according to the plan comparison and Stealth documentation, Stealth Mode is not available in this plan.

Under 'Applicability', the Privacy Policy lists, among the data collected, "data collected through the process of training Midjourney machine learning algorithms" and "data collected from third party sources" ("public databases, commercial data sources, and the public internet"). The Terms of Service (Section 4) grant Midjourney, for inputs and assets, a "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute". Public Summary of Training Content (q5, Section 2.4): for the question "Was data from user interactions with the AI model (e.g. user input and prompts) used to train the model?" "Yes" is ticked (modalities text and image); addition: "Midjourney adheres to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, as applicable, for user data training." The AB2013 documentation (q6) names as a training source, among others, "data our users provide through use of the Midjourney service". An opt-out is not documented in the primary sources retrieved. Visibility: public by default (ToS Section 4); according to the plan comparison and Stealth documentation, Stealth Mode is available in this plan. ToS: Midjourney commits to "best efforts" not to publish assets created with Stealth; content created in public Discord channels remains visible to others.

Under 'Applicability', the Privacy Policy lists, among the data collected, "data collected through the process of training Midjourney machine learning algorithms" and "data collected from third party sources" ("public databases, commercial data sources, and the public internet"). The Terms of Service (Section 4) grant Midjourney, for inputs and assets, a "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute". Public Summary of Training Content (q5, Section 2.4): for the question "Was data from user interactions with the AI model (e.g. user input and prompts) used to train the model?" "Yes" is ticked (modalities text and image); addition: "Midjourney adheres to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, as applicable, for user data training." The AB2013 documentation (q6) names as a training source, among others, "data our users provide through use of the Midjourney service". An opt-out is not documented in the primary sources retrieved. Visibility: public by default (ToS Section 4); according to the plan comparison and Stealth documentation, Stealth Mode is available in this plan. ToS: Midjourney commits to "best efforts" not to publish assets created with Stealth; content created in public Discord channels remains visible to others.

Data residency documentation: 'As a standard, ElevenLabs' customer data is hosted/stored in the U.S.'; additional storage locations (EU, India, Singapore) only as isolated environments for Enterprise customers ('Data residency is an Enterprise feature'). Trust Center (Subprocessors): for non-Enterprise customers, data at Google Cloud, AWS and MongoDB may be processed 'in the US, EU, or Singapore for latency and service performance purposes'.

Data residency documentation: 'As a standard, ElevenLabs' customer data is hosted/stored in the U.S.'; additional storage locations (EU, India, Singapore) only as isolated environments for Enterprise customers ('Data residency is an Enterprise feature'). Trust Center (Subprocessors): for non-Enterprise customers, data at Google Cloud, AWS and MongoDB may be processed 'in the US, EU, or Singapore for latency and service performance purposes'.

Data residency documentation: 'As a standard, ElevenLabs' customer data is hosted/stored in the U.S.'; additional storage locations (EU, India, Singapore) only as isolated environments for Enterprise customers ('Data residency is an Enterprise feature'). Trust Center (Subprocessors): for non-Enterprise customers, data at Google Cloud, AWS and MongoDB may be processed 'in the US, EU, or Singapore for latency and service performance purposes'.

Data residency documentation: Enterprise feature via isolated environments (EU: eu.residency.elevenlabs.io); storage at the selected location, processing may also take place outside it; according to the documentation, processing can be restricted to the EU using 'Zero Retention Mode' and the API (optional integrations such as Custom LLMs may process outside). Trust Center (Subprocessors): selection of the hosting location 'subject to availability and ElevenLabs’ discretion'.

Data Deletion and Privacy FAQ (q7, as of 2026-09-03): "The personal information you provide is stored on Midjourney servers in the US." For data stored on Discord, the FAQ refers to Discord ("Discord is in control of all data you store on Discord"). Privacy Policy 2.5: processing also "at the Midjourney's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located". A choice of region is not documented.

Data Deletion and Privacy FAQ (q7, as of 2026-09-03): "The personal information you provide is stored on Midjourney servers in the US." For data stored on Discord, the FAQ refers to Discord ("Discord is in control of all data you store on Discord"). Privacy Policy 2.5: processing also "at the Midjourney's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located". A choice of region is not documented.

Data Deletion and Privacy FAQ (q7, as of 2026-09-03): "The personal information you provide is stored on Midjourney servers in the US." For data stored on Discord, the FAQ refers to Discord ("Discord is in control of all data you store on Discord"). Privacy Policy 2.5: processing also "at the Midjourney's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located". A choice of region is not documented.

Data Deletion and Privacy FAQ (q7, as of 2026-09-03): "The personal information you provide is stored on Midjourney servers in the US." For data stored on Discord, the FAQ refers to Discord ("Discord is in control of all data you store on Discord"). Privacy Policy 2.5: processing also "at the Midjourney's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located". A choice of region is not documented.

• ElevenLabs affiliates in the UK, Poland, Japan, UAE, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland (Global)
• Google Cloud Platform – cloud infrastructure, storage, LLM services (Enterprise: US or selected hosting location; non-Enterprise: US, EU or Singapore)
• Amazon Web Services and MongoDB – cloud infrastructure, storage, database (Enterprise: US or selected hosting location; non-Enterprise: US, EU or Singapore)
• Azure – infrastructure and LLM services where India Data Residency is selected (India)
• LLM services: Anthropic (US), OpenAI (US/EU), xAI (US; only after the customer enables the integration), Fireworks AI (Global), Databricks (Global)
• Generation of synthetic media: ByteDance (Indonesia, Malaysia, EU), Creatify (US), Fal (Global), Kling (Singapore), Runway (US), Sync (US)
• Safety and moderation: Cinder (EU), Hive (US), Reality Defender (US; optional integration for ElevenAgents)
• Support and collaboration: Asana, Slack, Zendesk, Pylon, Zapier (each US), Plain (UK)
• Analytics and data integration: PostHog (EU), Sigma (US), Fivetran (US)
• Other: Stripe (US; payments), Twilio (US; SMS 2FA), Trustpilot (EU; reviews), Tailscale (US/EU; networking)

• ElevenLabs affiliates in the UK, Poland, Japan, UAE, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland (Global)
• Google Cloud Platform – cloud infrastructure, storage, LLM services (Enterprise: US or selected hosting location; non-Enterprise: US, EU or Singapore)
• Amazon Web Services and MongoDB – cloud infrastructure, storage, database (Enterprise: US or selected hosting location; non-Enterprise: US, EU or Singapore)
• Azure – infrastructure and LLM services where India Data Residency is selected (India)
• LLM services: Anthropic (US), OpenAI (US/EU), xAI (US; only after the customer enables the integration), Fireworks AI (Global), Databricks (Global)
• Generation of synthetic media: ByteDance (Indonesia, Malaysia, EU), Creatify (US), Fal (Global), Kling (Singapore), Runway (US), Sync (US)
• Safety and moderation: Cinder (EU), Hive (US), Reality Defender (US; optional integration for ElevenAgents)
• Support and collaboration: Asana, Slack, Zendesk, Pylon, Zapier (each US), Plain (UK)
• Analytics and data integration: PostHog (EU), Sigma (US), Fivetran (US)
• Other: Stripe (US; payments), Twilio (US; SMS 2FA), Trustpilot (EU; reviews), Tailscale (US/EU; networking)

• ElevenLabs affiliates in the UK, Poland, Japan, UAE, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland (Global)
• Google Cloud Platform – cloud infrastructure, storage, LLM services (Enterprise: US or selected hosting location; non-Enterprise: US, EU or Singapore)
• Amazon Web Services and MongoDB – cloud infrastructure, storage, database (Enterprise: US or selected hosting location; non-Enterprise: US, EU or Singapore)
• Azure – infrastructure and LLM services where India Data Residency is selected (India)
• LLM services: Anthropic (US), OpenAI (US/EU), xAI (US; only after the customer enables the integration), Fireworks AI (Global), Databricks (Global)
• Generation of synthetic media: ByteDance (Indonesia, Malaysia, EU), Creatify (US), Fal (Global), Kling (Singapore), Runway (US), Sync (US)
• Safety and moderation: Cinder (EU), Hive (US), Reality Defender (US; optional integration for ElevenAgents)
• Support and collaboration: Asana, Slack, Zendesk, Pylon, Zapier (each US), Plain (UK)
• Analytics and data integration: PostHog (EU), Sigma (US), Fivetran (US)
• Other: Stripe (US; payments), Twilio (US; SMS 2FA), Trustpilot (EU; reviews), Tailscale (US/EU; networking)

• ElevenLabs affiliates in the UK, Poland, Japan, UAE, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland (Global)
• Google Cloud Platform – cloud infrastructure, storage, LLM services (Enterprise: US or selected hosting location; non-Enterprise: US, EU or Singapore)
• Amazon Web Services and MongoDB – cloud infrastructure, storage, database (Enterprise: US or selected hosting location; non-Enterprise: US, EU or Singapore)
• Azure – infrastructure and LLM services where India Data Residency is selected (India)
• LLM services: Anthropic (US), OpenAI (US/EU), xAI (US; only after the customer enables the integration), Fireworks AI (Global), Databricks (Global)
• Generation of synthetic media: ByteDance (Indonesia, Malaysia, EU), Creatify (US), Fal (Global), Kling (Singapore), Runway (US), Sync (US)
• Safety and moderation: Cinder (EU), Hive (US), Reality Defender (US; optional integration for ElevenAgents)
• Support and collaboration: Asana, Slack, Zendesk, Pylon, Zapier (each US), Plain (UK)
• Analytics and data integration: PostHog (EU), Sigma (US), Fivetran (US)
• Other: Stripe (US; payments), Twilio (US; SMS 2FA), Trustpilot (EU; reviews), Tailscale (US/EU; networking)

• No list published. Privacy Policy 2.3 names categories: "Service Providers, Third Party Vendors, Consultants, and other Business Partners", payment service providers and analytics and advertising partners (cookies).

• No list published. Privacy Policy 2.3 names categories: "Service Providers, Third Party Vendors, Consultants, and other Business Partners", payment service providers and analytics and advertising partners (cookies).

• No list published. Privacy Policy 2.3 names categories: "Service Providers, Third Party Vendors, Consultants, and other Business Partners", payment service providers and analytics and advertising partners (cookies).

• No list published. Privacy Policy 2.3 names categories: "Service Providers, Third Party Vendors, Consultants, and other Business Partners", payment service providers and analytics and advertising partners (cookies).

USD 0 (10,000 credits/month, pricing page)

Monthly billing: Starter USD 6, 30,000 credits (the promotion 'First month 83% off' ran until 18 Oct according to the page and is no longer shown on 2026-10-19); Creator USD 22 ('First month 50% off' = USD 11), 121,000 credits; Pro USD 99, 600,000 credits. Annual billing ('Yearly billing' view, '2 months free'): Starter USD 5, Creator USD 18.33, Pro USD 82.50 per month. 'Prices exclude all taxes, levies and duties.' (pricing page)

Monthly billing: Scale USD 299 (3 seats, 1.8M credits), Business USD 990 (10 seats, 6M credits) per month. Annual billing ('Yearly billing' view, '2 months free'): Scale USD 249.17, Business USD 825 per month. 'Prices exclude all taxes, levies and duties.' (pricing page)

Custom (pricing page: 'Custom pricing', contact sales)

10 USD/month or 96 USD/year (8 USD/month with annual payment), as of 2026-10-14

30 USD/month or 288 USD/year (24 USD/month with annual payment), as of 2026-10-14

60 USD/month or 576 USD/year (48 USD/month with annual payment), as of 2026-10-14

120 USD/month or 1,152 USD/year (96 USD/month with annual payment), as of 2026-10-14

yes (Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Sound Effects, Voice Design, Music; 10,000 credits/month; Commercial License and Voice Cloning not included according to the pricing page)

yes (as Free, plus Commercial License; Instant Voice Cloning from Starter, Professional Voice Cloning from Creator according to the pricing page)

yes (team features, more seats and Professional Voice Clones according to the pricing page)

yes

yes (Image and video generation; features per plan according to the plan comparison)

yes (Image and video generation; features per plan according to the plan comparison)

yes (Image and video generation; features per plan according to the plan comparison)

yes (Image and video generation; features per plan according to the plan comparison)