Relay vs exporting your chats

Side by side

Relay vs exporting your chats, feature by feature
MethodRelayData export
One conversationYesNo
Ready immediatelyYesNo
Lands in the other AIYesNo
A backup of everythingNoYes

Where Relay is better

  • Moving one chat now, without waiting for an email.
  • No searching through files to find the conversation you meant.

Where data export is better

  • Keeping a full backup of your history.
  • Leaving a service for good and taking everything with you.

Which should you use?

Export when you want a backup or you're leaving a service. Use Relay to continue one conversation in another AI.

What Relay looks like

  1. The Relay panel open on a Claude chat, offering ChatGPT and Gemini.Pick the next AIClick Relay in the chat and choose where it goes.
  2. Relay showing the exact text it will pass to ChatGPT, with its size in tokens.Check the hand-offRead exactly what the other AI will get.
  3. ChatGPT with the conversation from Claude already in its message box.Carry on thereIt lands in the message box. You press send.

Questions

Does Relay back up my chats?

No. Relay moves the conversation you're on into another AI and keeps only a short list of recent relays, without message text. Use each app's own export for backups.