Pencil
Pencil uses 23 subprocessors and infrastructure vendors, including AWS, Google Cloud and OpenAI, based on its public subprocessor list. Last checked Nov 10, 2026.
AI Stack
Foundation Models
AI models: Provider of third-party AI models in the Platform (Claude models for text generation, planning and agents). Receives prompts and content a user submits.
Hosting and AI models: 1. Hosting of the Platform and its data (Google Cloud, Belgium). 2. Image analysis (Google Vision) and fonts (Google Fonts). 3. Provider of third-party AI models in the Platform (Gemini, Veo, Nano Banana, Lyria and Chirp). AI requests may be served from Google's global infrastructure.
AI models: Provider of third-party AI models in the Platform (GPT models for text and image generation). Receives prompts and images a user submits.
Image & Video Generation
AI models: Provider (fal.ai) of hosted third-party AI models in the Platform, including Marketplace models (such as FLUX, Qwen Image and Grok Imagine) and background removal. Receives prompts and images a user submits.
AI models: Provider of third-party AI models in the Platform (image and video enhancement and upscaling). Receives the images and video a user enhances.
Rendering: Provider of video template rendering (Adobe After Effects templates and variations). Receives the template projects and the content used in them.
AI models: Provider of third-party AI models in the Platform (Runway models, plus certain Seedance and Kling video models supplied through Runway). Receives prompts and reference images, video and audio a user submits.
AI models: Provider (Kling AI Pte. Ltd) of third-party AI models in the Platform (Kling image models, called directly). Receives prompts and reference images a user submits. Kling video models are supplied through Runway.
Voice & Speech AI
AI models: Provider of third-party AI models in the Platform (voice and music generation). Receives scripts and prompts a user submits.
AI models: Provider of third-party AI models in the Platform (MiniMax text, image and video models). Contracted through MiniMax's Singapore company, Nanonoble Pte. Ltd.
Infrastructure
Cloud & Networking
Backups and media processing: 1. Storage of backup copies of the Platform's production databases. 2. Video transcoding for uploaded media.
Storage and delivery: 1. Storage of uploaded assets and generated outputs. 2. Content delivery and hosting of the Platform's web app.
Hosting and AI models: 1. Hosting of the Platform and its data (Google Cloud, Belgium). 2. Image analysis (Google Vision) and fonts (Google Fonts). 3. Provider of third-party AI models in the Platform (Gemini, Veo, Nano Banana, Lyria and Chirp). AI requests may be served from Google's global infrastructure.
Rendering: Hosting of cloud Mac machines that render image and video exports. Processes the creative work being exported.
Backups: Provider (Union Lab SRL) of automated backup transfers. Copies backups of the Platform's production databases to backup storage in Germany. Backups pass through its servers only during transfer and are not stored there.
CRM & Support
Community: Provider of the Pencil Community platform (community.trypencil.com). Receives the names, email addresses and posts of users who join the community.
Customer support: Provider of in-app support chat, the Help Centre and an AI support agent. Receives the names, email addresses and messages of users who contact support.
Developer Platform
Integrations: Provider of connectors that let AI agents work with third-party apps a user chooses to connect. Stores the user's connection credentials and processes data passed to and from those apps. Pipedream does not store request or response content.
File processing: Provider of file conversion and transcoding (such as video rotation fixes and Word document exports). Receives the files being converted.
File processing: Provider of PDF processing for print-ready exports (colour conversion and optimisation). Receives the PDFs being processed.
Model labs reached through vendors 1
Pencil does not list these model providers. Vendors on its list name them on their own subprocessor lists.
- SpaceXAIthroughCloudflare,ElevenLabs,Runway
Changes
Mar 4, 2026 to Nov 10, 2026Source
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