Parloa vs. Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce: data protection per plan
Parloa (1 plan) and Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce (6 plans) side by side: DPA, training on inputs, hosting and data retention per plan, based on the providers’ public documents. Without rating.
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At a glance
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| Feature | Parloa | Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce |
|---|---|---|
| Provider based in | Parloa GmbH, Schönhauser Allee 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Plans recorded | 1 | 6 |
| Hosting | EU option: Enterprise | mixed: all 6 plans |
| Training on inputs | no: Enterprise | no: all 6 plans |
| DPA | yes: Enterprise | yes: all 6 plans |
| As of | 18 Oct 2026 | 18 Oct 2026 |
Plans compared
Comparing: Parloa Enterprise vs. Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundations
| Feature | ParloaEnterprise (on request) | Salesforce Einstein / AgentforceSalesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge) |
|---|---|---|
| yes | yes | |
| Details: DPA available | yes (GTC section 9.1: the parties conclude a data processing agreement that forms part of the contract; according to the Trust Center a pre-signed document for countersignature, text only after access is granted in the Trust Center, not publicly reviewed) Provider’s DPA | yes (on request) Provider’s DPA |
| no | no | |
| Details: Training on inputs | Customer AI Terms V3 2025 section 8.2: Parloa may use input and output 'solely to operate, maintain, and provide the Parloa Products and related services'. Section 8.3: perpetual, royalty-free licence to metadata (including system logs, call IDs, timestamps, SIP headers), also for improving the products and developing new features; by definition, metadata does not include personal data. Section 6.1: products rely on pre-trained models developed independently of the input. An express statement on training by the integrated model providers (e.g. OpenAI, Microsoft) is not publicly documented. | Documentation does not differentiate by plan. Trust Layer: "prompts and generated responses are never stored or used to train the underlying third-party large language models" (Zero Data Retention). Einstein Platform Notices (Published 2026-05-22, q7): OpenAI, Azure, Google and Anthropic (via AWS) "have contracted to not otherwise retain or use Customer Data sent to the model" (apart from automated safety classification). Use by Salesforce itself: the Einstein Platform SPARC (Published 2026-07-24, q8) permits the use of customer data "on an aggregate basis for purposes such as research, marketing, analysis, and benchmarking, and other purposes reasonably required to develop, deliver, and provide ongoing innovation to the Covered Services", without personally identifiable data; the documentation contains no express statement on training Salesforce's own models. For Einstein Conversation Insights, Salesforce employees may review customer data "for the purposes of improving and training the product" (q7). SPARC and Notices apply to the "Covered Services branded as Agentforce" without differentiating by edition; Salesforce Foundations is not named separately there (q7, q8). |
| differs by plan | EU option | mixed |
| Details: Data residency | Trust Center 'Geographic Location of Data': 'EU customer data stays within EU regions while US customer data remains in US regions'; Microsoft Azure data centres. Sub-processor list: Microsoft, MongoDB, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Deepgram, Twilio each 'EU for EU based'; Datadog, Auth0, Google, Bird, Userlike in the EU; optionally ElevenLabs in the US and Datatrans AG in the United Kingdom; Parloa Group 'US and EU based processing'. Security page: data residency via 'Parloa Zones'. | Infrastructure-and-Sub-processors documentation (Published 2026-10-02): Einstein Generative AI Services process at OpenAI in the USA (failover rerouting to Azure, priority to the org region), at Azure OpenAI in several regions incl. the EU (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden), at Google/AWS in the nearest disclosed region (e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via US endpoints); batch processing via Azure OpenAI uses global endpoints without geo-routing. According to a footnote, Agentforce Coworker only in certain regions (e.g. USA, Netherlands or Germany, France, Italy, Sweden). Org hosting on Hyperforce/AWS in selectable regions incl. Germany, France, Ireland and others. |
| list available | list available | |
| Details: List published |
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| differs by plan | Trust Center 'Data Erasure': automated… | External LLM providers: Zero Data… |
| Details: Data retention | Trust Center 'Data Erasure': automated data management with configurable retention periods, default 30 days; afterwards data is deleted or anonymised. Manual deletion requests via privacy@parloa.com, processed within 30 days after identity verification. Security page: individual retention policies ('Custom data retention'). Backups in multiple locations (period not quantified). | External LLM providers: Zero Data Retention according to the Trust page; according to the Notices, no retention or use beyond automated safety classification (q7). After the end of the contract (SPARC, q8): return on request within 30 days; customer data may then remain in inactive status for up to 120 days and is subsequently overwritten or deleted within 120 days. |
| differs by plan | Not public: individual consumption-based… | 0 USD |
| Details: Price | Not public: individual consumption-based model (voice per minute, chat per interaction), rates according to use-case complexity or agent tier, volume packages with commitments, outcome-based pricing possible; only via sales ('Book a demo'). | USD 0 (Salesforce Foundations, incl. Agentforce Builder, Prompt Builder, Agentforce Coworker and others; as of 2026-10-14) |
| yes | yes | |
| Details: AI features included | yes (AI agents for phone and chat based on pre-trained language models with RAG, Agent Builder, Performance Lab, Parloa Lens, LLM guardrails, PII/PCI redaction, integrations; choice between AI models possible, Parloa may replace models at any time) | yes |
| 7 sources | 7 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- Parloa Enterpriseyes
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundationsyes
- Parloa Enterprise
yes (GTC section 9.1: the parties conclude a data processing agreement that forms part of the contract; according to the Trust Center a pre-signed document for countersignature, text only after access is granted in the Trust Center, not publicly reviewed)
Provider’s DPA
Training
- Parloa Enterpriseno
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundationsno
- Parloa Enterprise
Customer AI Terms V3 2025 section 8.2: Parloa may use input and output 'solely to operate, maintain, and provide the Parloa Products and related services'. Section 8.3: perpetual, royalty-free licence to metadata (including system logs, call IDs, timestamps, SIP headers), also for improving the products and developing new features; by definition, metadata does not include personal data. Section 6.1: products rely on pre-trained models developed independently of the input. An express statement on training by the integrated model providers (e.g. OpenAI, Microsoft) is not publicly documented.
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce FoundationsDocumentation does not differentiate by plan. Trust Layer: "prompts and generated responses are never stored or used to train the underlying third-party large language models" (Zero Data Retention). Einstein Platform Notices (Published 2026-05-22, q7): OpenAI, Azure, Google and Anthropic (via AWS) "have contracted to not otherwise retain or use Customer Data sent to the model" (apart from automated safety classification). Use by Salesforce itself: the Einstein Platform SPARC (Published 2026-07-24, q8) permits the use of customer data "on an aggregate basis for purposes such as research, marketing, analysis, and benchmarking, and other purposes reasonably required to develop, deliver, and provide ongoing innovation to the Covered Services", without personally identifiable data; the documentation contains no express statement on training Salesforce's own models. For Einstein Conversation Insights, Salesforce employees may review customer data "for the purposes of improving and training the product" (q7). SPARC and Notices apply to the "Covered Services branded as Agentforce" without differentiating by edition; Salesforce Foundations is not named separately there (q7, q8).
Hosting
- differs by plan
- Parloa EnterpriseEU option
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundationsmixed
- Parloa Enterprise
Trust Center 'Geographic Location of Data': 'EU customer data stays within EU regions while US customer data remains in US regions'; Microsoft Azure data centres. Sub-processor list: Microsoft, MongoDB, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Deepgram, Twilio each 'EU for EU based'; Datadog, Auth0, Google, Bird, Userlike in the EU; optionally ElevenLabs in the US and Datatrans AG in the United Kingdom; Parloa Group 'US and EU based processing'. Security page: data residency via 'Parloa Zones'.
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce FoundationsInfrastructure-and-Sub-processors documentation (Published 2026-10-02): Einstein Generative AI Services process at OpenAI in the USA (failover rerouting to Azure, priority to the org region), at Azure OpenAI in several regions incl. the EU (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden), at Google/AWS in the nearest disclosed region (e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via US endpoints); batch processing via Azure OpenAI uses global endpoints without geo-routing. According to a footnote, Agentforce Coworker only in certain regions (e.g. USA, Netherlands or Germany, France, Italy, Sweden). Org hosting on Hyperforce/AWS in selectable regions incl. Germany, France, Ireland and others.
Sub-processors
- Parloa Enterpriselist available
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundationslist available
- Parloa Enterprise
- Microsoft (EU for EU customers), MongoDB (EU for EU customers), Datadog (EU), Auth0 (EU), Cloudflare (EU for EU customers), Deepgram Inc. – speech recognition (EU for EU customers), SAP – LLM models (GmbH only, EU)
- Optional: Twilio (EU for EU customers), Google (EU), Bird (EU), Userlike (EU), OpenAI (EU for EU customers), ElevenLabs (US), Datatrans AG (United Kingdom)
- Parloa Group (Parloa Inc and Parloa GmbH): technical support and platform integration, processing in the US and the EU
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundations- OpenAI, L.L.C. (generative AI, USA; on failover rerouting to an Azure endpoint)
- Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Azure / Azure OpenAI; regions incl. USA, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, UK and others)
- Google LLC (generative AI; "disclosed region closest to Customer's Salesforce Org", e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via Google endpoint in the USA)
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (hosting and generative AI provider, including Anthropic models via AWS according to the Notices q7; Agentforce Speech: AWS Polly/Transcribe)
- Bright Data Inc. (web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- SuSea, Inc. (dba You.com; web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- Temporal Technologies Inc. (orchestration of background workflows; incl. USA, Germany, UK)
- Eleven Labs Inc. (text-to-speech/speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations)
- Deepgram, Inc. (speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations; also self-hosted on AWS)
Retention
- differs by plan
- Parloa EnterpriseTrust Center 'Data Erasure': automated…
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce FoundationsExternal LLM providers: Zero Data…
- Parloa EnterpriseTrust Center 'Data Erasure': automated data management with configurable retention periods, default 30 days; afterwards data is deleted or anonymised. Manual deletion requests via privacy@parloa.com, processed within 30 days after identity verification. Security page: individual retention policies ('Custom data retention'). Backups in multiple locations (period not quantified).Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce FoundationsExternal LLM providers: Zero Data Retention according to the Trust page; according to the Notices, no retention or use beyond automated safety classification (q7). After the end of the contract (SPARC, q8): return on request within 30 days; customer data may then remain in inactive status for up to 120 days and is subsequently overwritten or deleted within 120 days.
Price
- differs by plan
- Parloa EnterpriseNot public: individual consumption-based…
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundations0 USD
- Parloa Enterprise
Not public: individual consumption-based model (voice per minute, chat per interaction), rates according to use-case complexity or agent tier, volume packages with commitments, outcome-based pricing possible; only via sales ('Book a demo').
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce FoundationsUSD 0 (Salesforce Foundations, incl. Agentforce Builder, Prompt Builder, Agentforce Coworker and others; as of 2026-10-14)
- Parloa Enterpriseyes
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundationsyes
- Parloa Enterprise
yes (AI agents for phone and chat based on pre-trained language models with RAG, Agent Builder, Performance Lab, Parloa Lens, LLM guardrails, PII/PCI redaction, integrations; choice between AI models possible, Parloa may replace models at any time)
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundationsyes
Evidence
- Parloa Enterprise7 sources
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundations7 sources
- Parloa Enterprise
- Pricing designed for the work (Consumption-Based Pricing for AI Agents)Pricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms & PoliciesTerms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- General Terms and Conditions of Parloa GmbH, V2 2024 (effective 1 May 2024)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Customer AI Terms for AI-powered Parloa Products, V3 2025Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Parloa Trust Center (Subprocessors, Data Security, Data Privacy, Certificates)Trust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Enterprise Security & GovernanceSecurity page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- AMP – Fair Use and Consumption Policy, V2.1Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce Salesforce Foundations- Trusted AI / Einstein Trust LayerTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Salesforce Infrastructure and Sub-processors (Published 2026-10-02)Sub-processor list, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Salesforce Data Processing Addendum (Revision August 2026)DPA, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Agentforce PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Trust and Compliance DocumentationDocumentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Einstein Platform Notices and License Information (Published 2026-05-22)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Einstein Platform Security, Privacy and Architecture (Published 2026-07-24)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
| Feature | Parloa | Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce |
|---|---|---|
| yesonly plan | yesall 6 plans | |
| Details: DPA available |
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| noonly plan | noall 6 plans | |
| Details: Training on inputs |
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| differs by tool | EU optiononly plan | mixedall 6 plans |
| Details: Data residency |
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| list availableonly plan | list availableall 6 plans | |
| Details: List published |
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| differs by tool | Trust Center 'Data Erasure': automated…only plan | External LLM providers: Zero Data…all 6 plans |
| Details: Data retention |
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| differs by tool | Not public: individual consumption-based…only plan |
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| Details: Price |
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| yesonly plan | yesall 6 plans | |
| Details: AI features included |
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| 7 sources | 8 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- Parloayesonly plan
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforceyesall 6 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
yes (GTC section 9.1: the parties conclude a data processing agreement that forms part of the contract; according to the Trust Center a pre-signed document for countersignature, text only after access is granted in the Trust Center, not publicly reviewed)
Provider’s DPA
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce- Salesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge)
yes (on request)
Provider’s DPA - Flex Credits (consumption-based)
yes (on request)
Provider’s DPA - Conversations (per conversation)
yes (on request)
Provider’s DPA - Agentforce User License
yes (on request)
Provider’s DPA - Agentforce Add-ons (Sales, Service, Field Service, Operations / Industries)
yes (on request)
Provider’s DPA - Agentforce Max Editions (Sales/Service/Industries)
yes (on request)
Provider’s DPA
- Enterprise (on request)
Training
- Parloanoonly plan
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforcenoall 6 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
Customer AI Terms V3 2025 section 8.2: Parloa may use input and output 'solely to operate, maintain, and provide the Parloa Products and related services'. Section 8.3: perpetual, royalty-free licence to metadata (including system logs, call IDs, timestamps, SIP headers), also for improving the products and developing new features; by definition, metadata does not include personal data. Section 6.1: products rely on pre-trained models developed independently of the input. An express statement on training by the integrated model providers (e.g. OpenAI, Microsoft) is not publicly documented.
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce- Salesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge)
Documentation does not differentiate by plan. Trust Layer: "prompts and generated responses are never stored or used to train the underlying third-party large language models" (Zero Data Retention). Einstein Platform Notices (Published 2026-05-22, q7): OpenAI, Azure, Google and Anthropic (via AWS) "have contracted to not otherwise retain or use Customer Data sent to the model" (apart from automated safety classification). Use by Salesforce itself: the Einstein Platform SPARC (Published 2026-07-24, q8) permits the use of customer data "on an aggregate basis for purposes such as research, marketing, analysis, and benchmarking, and other purposes reasonably required to develop, deliver, and provide ongoing innovation to the Covered Services", without personally identifiable data; the documentation contains no express statement on training Salesforce's own models. For Einstein Conversation Insights, Salesforce employees may review customer data "for the purposes of improving and training the product" (q7). SPARC and Notices apply to the "Covered Services branded as Agentforce" without differentiating by edition; Salesforce Foundations is not named separately there (q7, q8).
- Flex Credits (consumption-based)
Documentation does not differentiate by plan. Trust Layer: "prompts and generated responses are never stored or used to train the underlying third-party large language models" (Zero Data Retention). Einstein Platform Notices (Published 2026-05-22, q7): OpenAI, Azure, Google and Anthropic (via AWS) "have contracted to not otherwise retain or use Customer Data sent to the model" (apart from automated safety classification). Use by Salesforce itself: the Einstein Platform SPARC (Published 2026-07-24, q8) permits the use of customer data "on an aggregate basis for purposes such as research, marketing, analysis, and benchmarking, and other purposes reasonably required to develop, deliver, and provide ongoing innovation to the Covered Services", without personally identifiable data; the documentation contains no express statement on training Salesforce's own models. For Einstein Conversation Insights, Salesforce employees may review customer data "for the purposes of improving and training the product" (q7).
- Conversations (per conversation)
Documentation does not differentiate by plan. Trust Layer: "prompts and generated responses are never stored or used to train the underlying third-party large language models" (Zero Data Retention). Einstein Platform Notices (Published 2026-05-22, q7): OpenAI, Azure, Google and Anthropic (via AWS) "have contracted to not otherwise retain or use Customer Data sent to the model" (apart from automated safety classification). Use by Salesforce itself: the Einstein Platform SPARC (Published 2026-07-24, q8) permits the use of customer data "on an aggregate basis for purposes such as research, marketing, analysis, and benchmarking, and other purposes reasonably required to develop, deliver, and provide ongoing innovation to the Covered Services", without personally identifiable data; the documentation contains no express statement on training Salesforce's own models. For Einstein Conversation Insights, Salesforce employees may review customer data "for the purposes of improving and training the product" (q7).
- Agentforce User License
Documentation does not differentiate by plan. Trust Layer: "prompts and generated responses are never stored or used to train the underlying third-party large language models" (Zero Data Retention). Einstein Platform Notices (Published 2026-05-22, q7): OpenAI, Azure, Google and Anthropic (via AWS) "have contracted to not otherwise retain or use Customer Data sent to the model" (apart from automated safety classification). Use by Salesforce itself: the Einstein Platform SPARC (Published 2026-07-24, q8) permits the use of customer data "on an aggregate basis for purposes such as research, marketing, analysis, and benchmarking, and other purposes reasonably required to develop, deliver, and provide ongoing innovation to the Covered Services", without personally identifiable data; the documentation contains no express statement on training Salesforce's own models. For Einstein Conversation Insights, Salesforce employees may review customer data "for the purposes of improving and training the product" (q7).
- Agentforce Add-ons (Sales, Service, Field Service, Operations / Industries)
Documentation does not differentiate by plan. Trust Layer: "prompts and generated responses are never stored or used to train the underlying third-party large language models" (Zero Data Retention). Einstein Platform Notices (Published 2026-05-22, q7): OpenAI, Azure, Google and Anthropic (via AWS) "have contracted to not otherwise retain or use Customer Data sent to the model" (apart from automated safety classification). Use by Salesforce itself: the Einstein Platform SPARC (Published 2026-07-24, q8) permits the use of customer data "on an aggregate basis for purposes such as research, marketing, analysis, and benchmarking, and other purposes reasonably required to develop, deliver, and provide ongoing innovation to the Covered Services", without personally identifiable data; the documentation contains no express statement on training Salesforce's own models. For Einstein Conversation Insights, Salesforce employees may review customer data "for the purposes of improving and training the product" (q7).
- Agentforce Max Editions (Sales/Service/Industries)
Documentation does not differentiate by plan. Trust Layer: "prompts and generated responses are never stored or used to train the underlying third-party large language models" (Zero Data Retention). Einstein Platform Notices (Published 2026-05-22, q7): OpenAI, Azure, Google and Anthropic (via AWS) "have contracted to not otherwise retain or use Customer Data sent to the model" (apart from automated safety classification). Use by Salesforce itself: the Einstein Platform SPARC (Published 2026-07-24, q8) permits the use of customer data "on an aggregate basis for purposes such as research, marketing, analysis, and benchmarking, and other purposes reasonably required to develop, deliver, and provide ongoing innovation to the Covered Services", without personally identifiable data; the documentation contains no express statement on training Salesforce's own models. For Einstein Conversation Insights, Salesforce employees may review customer data "for the purposes of improving and training the product" (q7).
- Enterprise (on request)
Hosting
- differs by tool
- ParloaEU optiononly plan
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforcemixedall 6 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
Trust Center 'Geographic Location of Data': 'EU customer data stays within EU regions while US customer data remains in US regions'; Microsoft Azure data centres. Sub-processor list: Microsoft, MongoDB, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Deepgram, Twilio each 'EU for EU based'; Datadog, Auth0, Google, Bird, Userlike in the EU; optionally ElevenLabs in the US and Datatrans AG in the United Kingdom; Parloa Group 'US and EU based processing'. Security page: data residency via 'Parloa Zones'.
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce- Salesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge)
Infrastructure-and-Sub-processors documentation (Published 2026-10-02): Einstein Generative AI Services process at OpenAI in the USA (failover rerouting to Azure, priority to the org region), at Azure OpenAI in several regions incl. the EU (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden), at Google/AWS in the nearest disclosed region (e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via US endpoints); batch processing via Azure OpenAI uses global endpoints without geo-routing. According to a footnote, Agentforce Coworker only in certain regions (e.g. USA, Netherlands or Germany, France, Italy, Sweden). Org hosting on Hyperforce/AWS in selectable regions incl. Germany, France, Ireland and others.
- Flex Credits (consumption-based)
Infrastructure-and-Sub-processors documentation (Published 2026-10-02): Einstein Generative AI Services process at OpenAI in the USA (failover rerouting to Azure, priority to the org region), at Azure OpenAI in several regions incl. the EU (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden), at Google/AWS in the nearest disclosed region (e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via US endpoints); batch processing via Azure OpenAI uses global endpoints without geo-routing. According to a footnote, Agentforce Coworker only in certain regions (e.g. USA, Netherlands or Germany, France, Italy, Sweden). Org hosting on Hyperforce/AWS in selectable regions incl. Germany, France, Ireland and others.
- Conversations (per conversation)
Infrastructure-and-Sub-processors documentation (Published 2026-10-02): Einstein Generative AI Services process at OpenAI in the USA (failover rerouting to Azure, priority to the org region), at Azure OpenAI in several regions incl. the EU (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden), at Google/AWS in the nearest disclosed region (e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via US endpoints); batch processing via Azure OpenAI uses global endpoints without geo-routing. According to a footnote, Agentforce Coworker only in certain regions (e.g. USA, Netherlands or Germany, France, Italy, Sweden). Org hosting on Hyperforce/AWS in selectable regions incl. Germany, France, Ireland and others.
- Agentforce User License
Infrastructure-and-Sub-processors documentation (Published 2026-10-02): Einstein Generative AI Services process at OpenAI in the USA (failover rerouting to Azure, priority to the org region), at Azure OpenAI in several regions incl. the EU (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden), at Google/AWS in the nearest disclosed region (e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via US endpoints); batch processing via Azure OpenAI uses global endpoints without geo-routing. According to a footnote, Agentforce Coworker only in certain regions (e.g. USA, Netherlands or Germany, France, Italy, Sweden). Org hosting on Hyperforce/AWS in selectable regions incl. Germany, France, Ireland and others.
- Agentforce Add-ons (Sales, Service, Field Service, Operations / Industries)
Infrastructure-and-Sub-processors documentation (Published 2026-10-02): Einstein Generative AI Services process at OpenAI in the USA (failover rerouting to Azure, priority to the org region), at Azure OpenAI in several regions incl. the EU (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden), at Google/AWS in the nearest disclosed region (e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via US endpoints); batch processing via Azure OpenAI uses global endpoints without geo-routing. According to a footnote, Agentforce Coworker only in certain regions (e.g. USA, Netherlands or Germany, France, Italy, Sweden). Org hosting on Hyperforce/AWS in selectable regions incl. Germany, France, Ireland and others.
- Agentforce Max Editions (Sales/Service/Industries)
Infrastructure-and-Sub-processors documentation (Published 2026-10-02): Einstein Generative AI Services process at OpenAI in the USA (failover rerouting to Azure, priority to the org region), at Azure OpenAI in several regions incl. the EU (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden), at Google/AWS in the nearest disclosed region (e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via US endpoints); batch processing via Azure OpenAI uses global endpoints without geo-routing. According to a footnote, Agentforce Coworker only in certain regions (e.g. USA, Netherlands or Germany, France, Italy, Sweden). Org hosting on Hyperforce/AWS in selectable regions incl. Germany, France, Ireland and others.
- Enterprise (on request)
Sub-processors
- Parloalist availableonly plan
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforcelist availableall 6 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
- Microsoft (EU for EU customers), MongoDB (EU for EU customers), Datadog (EU), Auth0 (EU), Cloudflare (EU for EU customers), Deepgram Inc. – speech recognition (EU for EU customers), SAP – LLM models (GmbH only, EU)
- Optional: Twilio (EU for EU customers), Google (EU), Bird (EU), Userlike (EU), OpenAI (EU for EU customers), ElevenLabs (US), Datatrans AG (United Kingdom)
- Parloa Group (Parloa Inc and Parloa GmbH): technical support and platform integration, processing in the US and the EU
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce- Salesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge)
- OpenAI, L.L.C. (generative AI, USA; on failover rerouting to an Azure endpoint)
- Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Azure / Azure OpenAI; regions incl. USA, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, UK and others)
- Google LLC (generative AI; "disclosed region closest to Customer's Salesforce Org", e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via Google endpoint in the USA)
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (hosting and generative AI provider, including Anthropic models via AWS according to the Notices q7; Agentforce Speech: AWS Polly/Transcribe)
- Bright Data Inc. (web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- SuSea, Inc. (dba You.com; web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- Temporal Technologies Inc. (orchestration of background workflows; incl. USA, Germany, UK)
- Eleven Labs Inc. (text-to-speech/speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations)
- Deepgram, Inc. (speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations; also self-hosted on AWS)
- Flex Credits (consumption-based)
- OpenAI, L.L.C. (generative AI, USA; on failover rerouting to an Azure endpoint)
- Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Azure / Azure OpenAI; regions incl. USA, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, UK and others)
- Google LLC (generative AI; "disclosed region closest to Customer's Salesforce Org", e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via Google endpoint in the USA)
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (hosting and generative AI provider, including Anthropic models via AWS according to the Notices q7; Agentforce Speech: AWS Polly/Transcribe)
- Bright Data Inc. (web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- SuSea, Inc. (dba You.com; web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- Temporal Technologies Inc. (orchestration of background workflows; incl. USA, Germany, UK)
- Eleven Labs Inc. (text-to-speech/speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations)
- Deepgram, Inc. (speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations; also self-hosted on AWS)
- Conversations (per conversation)
- OpenAI, L.L.C. (generative AI, USA; on failover rerouting to an Azure endpoint)
- Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Azure / Azure OpenAI; regions incl. USA, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, UK and others)
- Google LLC (generative AI; "disclosed region closest to Customer's Salesforce Org", e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via Google endpoint in the USA)
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (hosting and generative AI provider, including Anthropic models via AWS according to the Notices q7; Agentforce Speech: AWS Polly/Transcribe)
- Bright Data Inc. (web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- SuSea, Inc. (dba You.com; web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- Temporal Technologies Inc. (orchestration of background workflows; incl. USA, Germany, UK)
- Eleven Labs Inc. (text-to-speech/speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations)
- Deepgram, Inc. (speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations; also self-hosted on AWS)
- Agentforce User License
- OpenAI, L.L.C. (generative AI, USA; on failover rerouting to an Azure endpoint)
- Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Azure / Azure OpenAI; regions incl. USA, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, UK and others)
- Google LLC (generative AI; "disclosed region closest to Customer's Salesforce Org", e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via Google endpoint in the USA)
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (hosting and generative AI provider, including Anthropic models via AWS according to the Notices q7; Agentforce Speech: AWS Polly/Transcribe)
- Bright Data Inc. (web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- SuSea, Inc. (dba You.com; web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- Temporal Technologies Inc. (orchestration of background workflows; incl. USA, Germany, UK)
- Eleven Labs Inc. (text-to-speech/speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations)
- Deepgram, Inc. (speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations; also self-hosted on AWS)
- Agentforce Add-ons (Sales, Service, Field Service, Operations / Industries)
- OpenAI, L.L.C. (generative AI, USA; on failover rerouting to an Azure endpoint)
- Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Azure / Azure OpenAI; regions incl. USA, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, UK and others)
- Google LLC (generative AI; "disclosed region closest to Customer's Salesforce Org", e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via Google endpoint in the USA)
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (hosting and generative AI provider, including Anthropic models via AWS according to the Notices q7; Agentforce Speech: AWS Polly/Transcribe)
- Bright Data Inc. (web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- SuSea, Inc. (dba You.com; web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- Temporal Technologies Inc. (orchestration of background workflows; incl. USA, Germany, UK)
- Eleven Labs Inc. (text-to-speech/speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations)
- Deepgram, Inc. (speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations; also self-hosted on AWS)
- Agentforce Max Editions (Sales/Service/Industries)
- OpenAI, L.L.C. (generative AI, USA; on failover rerouting to an Azure endpoint)
- Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Azure / Azure OpenAI; regions incl. USA, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, UK and others)
- Google LLC (generative AI; "disclosed region closest to Customer's Salesforce Org", e.g. Germany, Netherlands; failover via Google endpoint in the USA)
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (hosting and generative AI provider, including Anthropic models via AWS according to the Notices q7; Agentforce Speech: AWS Polly/Transcribe)
- Bright Data Inc. (web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- SuSea, Inc. (dba You.com; web search for generative AI, only if enabled by the customer)
- Temporal Technologies Inc. (orchestration of background workflows; incl. USA, Germany, UK)
- Eleven Labs Inc. (text-to-speech/speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations)
- Deepgram, Inc. (speech-to-text, Agentforce Speech Foundations; also self-hosted on AWS)
- Enterprise (on request)
Retention
- differs by tool
- ParloaTrust Center 'Data Erasure': automated…only plan
- Salesforce Einstein / AgentforceExternal LLM providers: Zero Data…all 6 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)Trust Center 'Data Erasure': automated data management with configurable retention periods, default 30 days; afterwards data is deleted or anonymised. Manual deletion requests via privacy@parloa.com, processed within 30 days after identity verification. Security page: individual retention policies ('Custom data retention'). Backups in multiple locations (period not quantified).
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce- Salesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge)External LLM providers: Zero Data Retention according to the Trust page; according to the Notices, no retention or use beyond automated safety classification (q7). After the end of the contract (SPARC, q8): return on request within 30 days; customer data may then remain in inactive status for up to 120 days and is subsequently overwritten or deleted within 120 days.
- Flex Credits (consumption-based)External LLM providers: Zero Data Retention according to the Trust page; according to the Notices, no retention or use beyond automated safety classification (q7). After the end of the contract (SPARC, q8): return on request within 30 days; customer data may then remain in inactive status for up to 120 days and is subsequently overwritten or deleted within 120 days.
- Conversations (per conversation)External LLM providers: Zero Data Retention according to the Trust page; according to the Notices, no retention or use beyond automated safety classification (q7). After the end of the contract (SPARC, q8): return on request within 30 days; customer data may then remain in inactive status for up to 120 days and is subsequently overwritten or deleted within 120 days.
- Agentforce User LicenseExternal LLM providers: Zero Data Retention according to the Trust page; according to the Notices, no retention or use beyond automated safety classification (q7). After the end of the contract (SPARC, q8): return on request within 30 days; customer data may then remain in inactive status for up to 120 days and is subsequently overwritten or deleted within 120 days.
- Agentforce Add-ons (Sales, Service, Field Service, Operations / Industries)External LLM providers: Zero Data Retention according to the Trust page; according to the Notices, no retention or use beyond automated safety classification (q7). After the end of the contract (SPARC, q8): return on request within 30 days; customer data may then remain in inactive status for up to 120 days and is subsequently overwritten or deleted within 120 days.
- Agentforce Max Editions (Sales/Service/Industries)External LLM providers: Zero Data Retention according to the Trust page; according to the Notices, no retention or use beyond automated safety classification (q7). After the end of the contract (SPARC, q8): return on request within 30 days; customer data may then remain in inactive status for up to 120 days and is subsequently overwritten or deleted within 120 days.
Price
- differs by tool
- ParloaNot public: individual consumption-based…only plan
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce
- 0 USDSalesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge)
- 500 USDFlex Credits (consumption-based)
- 2 USDConversations (per conversation)
- 5 USD/user/moAgentforce User License
- 125 USD/user/mo… (further prices in the details)Agentforce Add-ons (Sales, Service, Field Service, Operations / Industries)
- from 550 USD/user/moAgentforce Max Editions (Sales/Service/Industries)
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
Not public: individual consumption-based model (voice per minute, chat per interaction), rates according to use-case complexity or agent tier, volume packages with commitments, outcome-based pricing possible; only via sales ('Book a demo').
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce- Salesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge)
USD 0 (Salesforce Foundations, incl. Agentforce Builder, Prompt Builder, Agentforce Coworker and others; as of 2026-10-14)
- Flex Credits (consumption-based)
USD 500 per 100,000 Flex Credits (as of 2026-10-14; pricing page shows a USD/EUR converter, EUR 500 per 100k)
- Conversations (per conversation)
USD 2 per conversation; for customer-facing agents, cannot be used in the same org as Flex Credits (as of 2026-10-14)
- Agentforce User License
USD 5 per user/month, requires Flex Credits (as of 2026-10-14)
- Agentforce Add-ons (Sales, Service, Field Service, Operations / Industries)
USD 125 per user/month (Sales/Service/Field Service/Operations add-ons) or USD 150 per user/month (Industries add-ons), unlimited employee agent usage (as of 2026-10-14)
- Agentforce Max Editions (Sales/Service/Industries)
from USD 550 per user/month, includes Agentforce add-on and 2.75 million Flex Credits per org/year (as of 2026-10-14). Sales Cloud pricing page (as of 2026-10-18): Max USD 550 or EUR 550 per user/month, billed annually, no indication whether VAT is included (q9)
- Enterprise (on request)
- Parloayesonly plan
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforceyesall 6 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
yes (AI agents for phone and chat based on pre-trained language models with RAG, Agent Builder, Performance Lab, Parloa Lens, LLM guardrails, PII/PCI redaction, integrations; choice between AI models possible, Parloa may replace models at any time)
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce- Salesforce Foundations (start Agentforce free of charge)
yes
- Flex Credits (consumption-based)
yes
- Conversations (per conversation)
yes
- Agentforce User License
yes
- Agentforce Add-ons (Sales, Service, Field Service, Operations / Industries)
yes
- Agentforce Max Editions (Sales/Service/Industries)
yes
- Enterprise (on request)
Evidence
- Parloa7 sources
- Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce8 sources
- Parloa
- Pricing designed for the work (Consumption-Based Pricing for AI Agents)Pricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms & PoliciesTerms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- General Terms and Conditions of Parloa GmbH, V2 2024 (effective 1 May 2024)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Customer AI Terms for AI-powered Parloa Products, V3 2025Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Parloa Trust Center (Subprocessors, Data Security, Data Privacy, Certificates)Trust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Enterprise Security & GovernanceSecurity page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- AMP – Fair Use and Consumption Policy, V2.1Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce- Trusted AI / Einstein Trust LayerTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Salesforce Infrastructure and Sub-processors (Published 2026-10-02)Sub-processor list, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Salesforce Data Processing Addendum (Revision August 2026)DPA, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Agentforce PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Trust and Compliance DocumentationDocumentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Einstein Platform Notices and License Information (Published 2026-05-22)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Einstein Platform Security, Privacy and Architecture (Published 2026-07-24)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Sales Cloud PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
not documentedmeans: not publicly documented, not verifiable in any provider source. It does not mean “no”.
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