// Trust & Security Report
Phind
AI-powered search/answer engine and coding assistant for developers (web app at phind.com plus a VS Code/JetBrains extension and API); the company ceased operations and shut the product down in January 2026.
Certifications held
0
Maturity
Unknown
Trains on your data
Unknown
Trust center
No
// Certification ledger
Each held certification is backed by a verbatim quote from the vendor's own trust or security page. “Not confirmed” means we could not verify it publicly, not that the vendor lacks it.
> Show 6 unconfirmed / not-held certifications
source: phind.comNo public evidence. phind.com now returns a "404: NOT_FOUND / Code: DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND" error; the vendor's infrastructure has been decommissioned and no trust center, security page, or certification page could be found on the vendor's own domain.
source: phind.comNo public evidence on any phind.com/phind.io/phind-ai.com property. A third-party SaaS-security aggregator (Nudge Security) lists Phind as "ISO 27001 Compliant," but that page is not vendor-published, cites no source document, and could not be corroborated on any phind-controlled domain.
source: phind.comNo public evidence available; the vendor's privacy policy (previously at phind.com/privacy) is no longer reachable because the site has been taken down.
source: phind.comNo public evidence. The same third-party aggregator (Nudge Security) also lists "HIPAA Compliant," "PCI Compliant," "FedRAMP Compliant," and "CSA Star Level 1 Compliant" for Phind with no supporting vendor documentation found anywhere.
source: phind.comNo public evidence. The same unverified third-party aggregator claim noted for HIPAA compliance applies to PCI DSS as well.
source: phind.comNo public evidence of an AI-management-system certification for Phind was found on any vendor property or in press coverage.
// Privacy & AI training
Trains on customer data
Not stated
Data processing agreement
Not offered
Data region
n/a - not verified; vendor infrastructure is decommissioned
Phind's own privacy policy and security pages are no longer reachable (site returns a Vercel "DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND" 404), so no current vendor-sourced statement on training use of customer data could be verified. Independent reporting confirms the company deleted all saved user searches and chat histories as part of the shutdown, but that is a deletion/offboarding action, not a training-use disclosure.
// Security controls
Vendor site / trust center availability
phind.com currently serves a Vercel platform 404 ("DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND") rather than the product; no security, privacy, or trust-center page is reachable on the vendor's own domain.
phind.comOperational status
Company shut down the Phind service on January 16, 2026 (roughly a month after closing a $10.4M Series A in December 2025), citing commoditization of AI developer search by foundation-model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google adding native web search/coding). Pro subscribers received prorated refunds; users were given until January 30, 2026 to export chat history before servers and all saved data were wiped.
news.ycombinator.comEncryption in transit
Not verified - no live vendor page to confirm current TLS/security posture, since the product and its documentation are offline.
phind.com// Products & data scope
Data it handles: Previously handled user search queries and conversational history; all such data was deleted by the vendor around January 30, 2026 as part of shutdown.
Service discontinued; no longer operational as of this review.
Data it handles: Same as free tier plus any paid-account billing data; subscribers received prorated refunds at shutdown.
Discontinued along with the base product.
Data it handles: Not independently verified; assumed discontinued alongside the core service given full infrastructure teardown.
No live evidence found; listed for completeness based on the product's historical scope.
// What to watch
- Independent reporting (Hacker News, Devtalk, intelligenttools.co, and a public statement from an early adopter on X) consistently confirms Phind shut down operations on January 16, 2026 and deleted all user data by January 30, 2026.
- A third-party SaaS-security aggregator (Nudge Security) lists Phind as compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP, and CSA STAR Level 1 with no cited source document and no corroboration on any phind-controlled domain. This looks like an auto-generated or inferred profile rather than a vendor-confirmed fact.
- Multiple phind-branded domains exist: phind.com is the AI search product covered here and is now defunct; phind.io and phindwork.com appear to be an unrelated recruiting/staffing brand; phind-ai.com appears to be an unrelated third-party 'alternative' site. Privacy and security claims from phind.io, phindwork.com, or phind-ai.com do not apply to this AI search product.
- No historical vendor-domain record (such as a web archive) could confirm pre-shutdown certification claims one way or the other.
// At a glance
Pricing model
n/a - service discontinued; formerly freemium with a Phind Pro paid tier
Self-hostable
No
// How we verified this
Every certification marked HELD is confirmed against a verbatim quote on Phind, Inc.'s own trust, security, or privacy pages. We reject certifications claimed only on third-party aggregators, on a cloud host's behalf, or by a similarly named company.
Last verified 2026-07-08. Compliance changes over time. Always confirm directly with the vendor before relying on any certification for a purchasing or compliance decision.
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