--- title: "Adea vs ChatGPT or Claude on your database: what each does, and when to choose which · Adea" description: "Adea vs ChatGPT or Claude on your database: answers in plain words, reports and dashboards, and every number watched each night, from your own database. See what each does and when to choose which." url: https://adea.app/vs/chatgpt-claude --- # Adea vs ChatGPT or Claude on your database Choose Adea over a do-it-yourself ChatGPT or Claude setup when the whole team should ask, safely. Adea connects read-only, learns your business once, checks every query before it runs, and answers in Claude or ChatGPT too, with reports and the watching included. [Start free](https://adea.app/signup) [See the demo](https://adea.app/demo) Free plan No card Read-only access ## “I can paste data into ChatGPT.” Pasted data is a copy from the moment you exported it. The assistant forgets what's normal between chats, nothing checks the query, and the rows you paste, names and emails included, leave your company. Adea works on live data, remembers what's normal, and Guardian checks every query. ## What Adea adds next to ChatGPT or Claude on your database. Choose Adea when: 1. 1 Your whole team asks, not only whoever set it up 2. 2 You want every query checked before it runs, and pulls of personal data flagged 3. 3 You want answers from live data, with the query and its sources 4. 4 You want reports and dashboards that stay up to date, not charts you ask for again 5. 5 You want the numbers watched when nobody asks [Start free](https://adea.app/signup) [See the demo](https://adea.app/demo) [Start free](https://adea.app/signup) [See the demo](https://adea.app/demo) ## Adea vs ChatGPT or Claude on your database side by side | Question | | ChatGPT or Claude on your database | | --- | --- | --- | | Built for | Answering questions, building reports and dashboards, and watching every number of the business | Quick questions to an AI assistant, by the person who set it up | | Asking a question | Ask in plain words and get the answer in seconds, with the query and its sources shown | Ask in a chat, about what is connected or pasted in | | Reports and dashboards | Dashboards from a question in plain words. Bring a report you already have as a PDF, screenshot or Excel file, and Adea rebuilds it from your live data. Send any of it on a schedule | Charts and tables in the chat, made again each time you ask | | Who can build them | Anyone who can ask a question | Usually the developer or analyst who built the setup | | Getting started | Connect a read-only database. Adea learns what the tables mean, works out what's normal and suggests the numbers to watch, the same day | Set up a connection yourself, or paste an export into a chat | | When a number moves | Checks every number each night against what is normal for it, tells you in the morning, and tests the likely causes | You find out when you ask | | Where answers arrive | In Adea, Slack, Teams, mail and the AI assistant you already use | In that assistant's chat | | Personal data | Guardian checks every query before it runs and flags large pulls of personal data. On Business it can hold them until an admin says yes | What you paste or let it query goes to the assistant, with no check on how much | ### About ChatGPT or Claude on your database Some businesses connect ChatGPT or Claude to their database themselves, usually over MCP, or paste in an export. It can work well for the person who set it up. Written from how each tool describes itself, in October 2026. Tools change, so check theirs for today's details. Found something wrong? Write to us and we'll correct it. ### Choose ChatGPT or Claude on your database when - One technical person asks a one-off question on a small database - You're happy to set up and secure the access yourself ## Use them together Keep Claude or ChatGPT for everything else, and connect it to Adea: your assistant asks Adea, and Adea asks the database, read-only and checked. ## Adding Adea takes three steps Nothing you have today has to change. 1. 1 ### Connect your database, read-only The same database you and your tools already use. Adea only reads, and refuses a user that can write. 2. 2 ### Adea sets itself up It learns what your tables mean, works out what's normal and suggests the numbers to watch. You check the first ones. 3. 3 ### Keep what already works Keep ChatGPT or Claude for everything else, and connect it to Adea if you like asking there. ## Questions ### What is the best alternative to connecting ChatGPT or Claude to my database myself? Adea. It connects read-only, learns what your tables mean once for the whole team, checks every query before it runs, and your assistant can ask Adea instead of the database. It also builds reports and watches every number. ### How is Adea different from ChatGPT or Claude on my database? Adea is set up once for the whole team, works on live data read-only, remembers what's normal for every number, and checks every query before it runs. A chat on an export knows only what you pasted. ### Does Adea replace ChatGPT or Claude? No. Keep your assistant for everything else, and connect it to Adea: Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and Cursor can ask Adea, and asking costs the same as asking in Adea. ### Do I still need to connect ChatGPT or Claude to my database myself? No. Adea connects to the database read-only, learns what the tables mean, and checks every query before it runs. Your assistant asks Adea instead of the database. ### Is my data safe with Adea? Adea connects with a database user that can only read, and refuses one that can write. Guardian checks every query before it runs and flags large pulls of personal data. Everything travels over HTTPS, the passwords you give Adea are encrypted with a key that belongs to your company alone, and no other company can see your numbers. ### How long does it take to set up? A couple of minutes to connect a database. Then Adea sets itself up: it learns what your tables mean and suggests the numbers to watch, and you check the first one. 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