PortEden vs BastionGPT — which is right for your business?
BastionGPT bundles multiple LLMs into a single hosted chat UI marketed for regulated workflows. PortEden is a different shape: it lets users keep using Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini directly while controlling what those tools can see in your inbox, calendar, drive, and project tools.
- Your users want to keep using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot directly — not a separate chat wrapper.
- You need to control what AI sees in Gmail, Outlook, Drive, SharePoint, Jira, and similar tools — not just chat sessions.
- You're a small business that wants self-serve signup, not a sales-led procurement cycle.
- Your data already lives in Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 and you want to govern it where it sits.
- You want a single chat UI that bundles multiple model providers and you accept that conversations live inside that wrapper.
- You don't need governance over your existing Gmail / Outlook / Drive — only over the chat session.
- Your users are comfortable copy-pasting source material into a new tool for every task.
Side-by-side
| Feature | PortEden | BastionGPT |
|---|---|---|
| Plans | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Self-serve signup | Contact sales | |
| Model coverage | ||
| Use Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini directly | Inside hosted UI only | |
| Integrations | ||
| MCP server compatibility | ||
| Gmail / Outlook live controls | ||
| Google Drive / SharePoint controls | ||
| Jira / Confluence / Asana / Notion controls | ||
| Audit | ||
| Per-tool audit log | Chat-session log | |
| Identity | ||
| SSO / SAML / SCIM | Enterprise tier | All tiers |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Data residency choice | US / EU | Vendor-defined |
How each handles real scenarios
A clinic admin wants to draft a patient follow-up email without exposing the patient's chart
PortEden's Gmail and Drive connectors redact obvious PHI (SSN, MRN patterns, DOBs) before the draft request reaches the AI, and block any reference to the EMR folder hierarchy. The admin keeps drafting in Gmail — Claude sees the redacted shell, returns a draft.
The admin opens BastionGPT, pastes the visit notes into the chat, and drafts the reply there. The chat session is the boundary; nothing about the live mailbox is governed.
A 5-person consultancy needs ChatGPT in their workflow but worries about leaking client contracts in their Drive
Self-serve signup, $0 to start. The Drive connector denies access to a /Clients/ folder by ID; ChatGPT can read everything else. No sales call.
BastionGPT is sales-led, designed for larger / regulated buyers. A 5-person firm is below the typical engagement size.
An auditor asks 'show me every AI request that touched a customer record in the last 30 days'
One JSONL log per agent across Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and project-management connectors. Filter by tool, agent identity, rule fired, and resource. Export to S3 or a SIEM on Enterprise.
BastionGPT can show chat-session transcripts but cannot show activity outside its UI — because there is no activity outside its UI to capture.