| What it checks | The policies you write (including banned words), personal information, and API keys, checked exactly as written | The policies you write, personal information, and API keys, plus a context evaluation by the local AI (it also catches confidential content you did not write down; the evaluation is probabilistic and, by default, its result is a warning) |
| On detection | Block / mask and send / process with the local AI (when a local AI is set up). Chosen in settings for personal information and API keys; per word for banned words: stop or mask | Block / mask and send / process with the local AI (when a local AI is set up). Chosen in settings for personal information and API keys; in policies you write whether to stop or mask. You can also route to a destination by policy (LLM routing, when configured) |
| Policy | Banned words (registered on screen) + policy files in 2 layers (organization, personal) | Policy files in 3 layers (organization, project, personal; you can write per-project policies) + creating policies from plain text (Policy Translator) |
| Attachments | The content of documents and text files (PDF, Word, Excel, text, source code, etc.) is checked too. Images cannot be attached | Documents and text files, plus text appearing in images, which is read and checked (requires a vision model) |
| Local AI | Not required (optionally usable as a destination after the check) | Required (used for the evaluation). Recommended environments are published |
| The number the audit report leads with | The count of inputs sent without matching any policy | The count of cloud sends at confidentiality level L3 or above (if it is 0, it records that, following your policies, none were sent) |
| Browser (Covenant Bridge) | Supported (checked by policies, personal information, and API keys) | Supported (browser checks use policies, personal information, and API keys; the AI evaluation applies to input in the app's chat) |
| Carry-over | Conversations and policies are carried over automatically the first time you start Covenant Personal | Can receive a carry-over from Covenant Lite |
| Price | One-time purchase | Monthly subscription |
| Who it suits | People who know which words they want to protect and want to start today on their current PC | People who want the context of their contracts considered, and a local record of decisions made before sending |