Claude is one of the best AI assistants you can use — when your data is allowed to leave your device. Hey Eduardo is for the work where it isn't. Direct comparison, no marketing fluff.
Claude's current models, such as Opus 5 and Sonnet 5, are among the most capable AI models available. For the very hardest problems — research-grade math, multi-step planning across large contexts, advanced code analysis — Claude's capability is genuinely ahead of what runs locally on a Mac.
Anthropic's newest models support context windows of up to 1 million tokens, enough for entire contracts, large codebases, or full case files in a single conversation. Local models on a Mac can't match that.
On data, it depends on the plan. Anthropic's business plans fall under its commercial terms, which don't use your data for training. On Free, Pro and Max, since late 2025 your chats can be used to train models unless you turn off “Help improve Claude” in Privacy Settings, and Anthropic keeps them for up to five years if you allow it.
In local mode, Hey Eduardo's model runs on your Mac and there is no vendor in the loop — no server-side processing, no retention policy to evaluate, no API contract to negotiate, no data transmission to audit. The privacy posture is structural.
This matters for any work covered by professional confidentiality obligations: attorney-client privilege, IRC §7216, HIPAA, SEC Reg S-P, NDAs, MSAs. The question “where did the data go?” has a one-word answer: “nowhere.”
And because Hey Eduardo is local, no vendor can unilaterally change the terms on which you rely. The model on your disk will work the same way next year as it does today.
Use both, for different work.
Use Claude for hard reasoning problems with large context windows where the content is not subject to professional confidentiality — code architecture discussions about open-source projects, research on public topics, learning a new field, brainstorming with no client identifiers.
Use Hey Eduardo for any prompt that contains a client's name, financial details, medical information, legal strategy, tax return data, or anything else that could violate a professional obligation if it left your device. The simplest position to defend is “the data never left my machine.”
Claude's current models have a clear edge on the hardest reasoning tasks. For everyday professional work — explaining documents, drafting communications, summarizing, reasoning through ideas — Hey Eduardo is more than capable.
Privacy and control. Claude.ai transmits inputs to Anthropic. Hey Eduardo runs on your Mac in local mode. For confidential work, the architectural difference matters.
Claude's business plans fall under Anthropic's commercial terms, which don't use your data for training. They're a legitimate option for many firms. But they still require data to leave your device — with on-device AI, there is no vendor at all.
Yes. Claude for hard problems on non-confidential material, Hey Eduardo for anything involving client data. Hey Eduardo's opt-in cloud mode can even connect to Claude with your own API key, for work with no client data.
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