In short. Qwant says the text search reaches its answer model, while past searches and user profiles are excluded from personalization.
Definition: No. As of 16 October 2026, Qwant's English help documentation says the text search is transmitted to the model that produces the answer, while search history is excluded from answer personalization and the query stays separate from a user profile. Qwant also says its partner deletes the query after processing.
Key facts
- Qwant's AI documentation says its answers rely on web pages indexed in Qwant's search results and that the text search is sent to the answer model. Qwant's AI sources and data help page
- Qwant's search-data help page describes searches as separate from an identity or profile, with previous searches excluded from result personalization and a signed-in account identifier kept separate from searches. Qwant's search-data help page
- Qwant's privacy help page describes search handling without user profiles based on searches and applies this principle regardless of login state, across all its products. Qwant and Your Privacy
What does Qwant send to the answer model?
Qwant distinguishes the text of a search from other request data. Its AI sources and data help page states that the text search is transmitted to the model that produces the answer. The same page states that the user's IP address stays outside the model, search history is excluded from answer personalization, and the query remains separate from a user profile.
The page also documents a retention rule for the model partner: the query is deleted after processing under what Qwant calls Zero Data Retention. The documentation leaves the partner identity and processing duration unspecified. It says that searches submitted to Qwant are excluded from AI model training.
How does Qwant treat a logged-in account?
Qwant's search-data help page says it processes the words typed in the search, the IP address needed to return the response and prevent abuse, browser, language and screen resolution for display adaptation, and the page viewed with its timestamp for aggregated statistical analysis. It separately describes a search as separate from an identity or profile and says that the IP address is handled without building a personal history.
The same documentation says that a Qwant account identifier stays separate from searches and that the account is used only to save preferences. Qwant's privacy help page adds that its privacy principles apply regardless of login state and across all of its products. On these pages, account sign-in is documented as a preference feature rather than a source of past-search context for an AI answer.
What does this mean for Qwant AI answers?
Qwant's AI documentation describes the flash answer as a summary made from results in its web index. For an eligible search, the sources used appear in the answer block as clickable links. The same documentation says that AI Chat also uses Qwant's web index and offers sources when available.
Qwant says AI Chat can also draw on the model's general knowledge for stable subjects such as mathematics, definitions and general concepts, or for creative requests such as ideas, reformulations and outlines. The documented inputs therefore differ by answer surface: an eligible search can use indexed results, while AI Chat can also use general model knowledge. Past Qwant searches and a Qwant user profile are excluded from the personalization data described by Qwant's AI help page.
For a website owner, Qwant's documentation identifies the submitted search and the pages in its web index as the relevant documented parts of this answer flow. It offers no documented profile-based mechanism in which earlier searches change which page a person receives for the AI answer.
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FAQ
Is my previous Qwant search sent to the AI?
Qwant says the text search that produces an answer is transmitted to the model. It also says that search history is excluded from answer personalization, and the page describes the submitted query rather than a history payload.
Does logging into Qwant connect searches to my account?
Qwant says your identifier stays separate from your searches. It describes the account as a way to save preferences, and its privacy help page says the same principle applies regardless of whether you are logged in.
Does the AI partner keep the query?
Qwant says the partner deletes the query after processing under Zero Data Retention. The AI help page leaves the processing time unspecified.
Sources
- Qwant, "The sources and data used by Qwant's AI", 16 October 2026
- Qwant, "What data does Qwant collect when I perform a search?", 16 October 2026
- Qwant, "Qwant and Your Privacy", 16 October 2026
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