Questions people ask us.

NodePad is a workspace for thinking and working with AI on a canvas instead of in a chat. Every message is a node you can move, fork, reference, and merge, so a single workspace can hold a debugging session, three competing research threads, and the synthesis that came out of them. It's chat on a canvas, and it's also agents on a canvas: Claude Code plugins (MCP tools and Agent Skills) work out of the box, and you can bring your own plugin marketplaces.

ChatGPT is a linear chat. NodePad is a canvas. You fork threads, run multiple models in parallel, and keep every related conversation in one workspace instead of scattered tabs.

Premium plans include every premium model: Claude, GPT, and Gemini. The free plan runs on community models (fast open models). Enterprise plans additionally support any OpenAI-, Anthropic-, or Gemini-compatible endpoint so you can route calls through your own inference (Ollama, vLLM, Bedrock, Vertex, Azure OpenAI).

Yes. Enterprise customers run NodePad on their own infrastructure, including fully offline / air-gapped deployments. See the Enterprise page for options.

No. The model receives exactly the context you built: the thread you are on, plus anything you referenced or merged in. There are no hidden system prompts and no injected instructions. That control is the point.

There is a free plan on community models, and premium plans start at $5/month. Every premium plan reaches every model. Go, Pro, and Max differ only in how much included monthly usage you get, and you can add extra usage anytime. See the pricing page for details.

Your workspaces are private to your account, and we never train models on your prompts and responses. On paid plans, model providers process your messages under API terms that exclude training. The free plan's community models run on third-party hosts that may retain conversations. The privacy policy has the full picture.