ai-data-extractor vs Truleo

The two products share nothing but the word "extraction." ai-data-extractor reads files your AI coding assistants already write: per-session JSONL in ~/.claude/projects, Codex CLI rollout files, Cursor's SQLite state.vscdb in global and workspace storage, Continue sessions, Gemini CLI chats, OpenCode session/message/part trees, and — per the newest releases — Cline and Roo Code tasks storing raw Anthropic-format message arrays, plus Aider's per-project markdown transcripts. Windsurf and Trae go through heuristic parsers because their schemas are undocumented. Output is one normalized JSONL conversation per line, auto-detecting macOS, Linux, and Windows data roots without OS flags. Its scope ends at your own machine and your own chats.

Truleo ingests a department's investigative universe: unified search across RMS, CAD, jail calls, cell phones, LPR, and 140+ OSINT sources; ranked solvability scores (8.5/10 style); jail-call intelligence that flags key statements and inconsistencies; automated case briefings; BOLO and wanted-person maintenance; body-worn camera analysis and redaction, cell dump and LPR analysis, and automated interviews at higher tiers; plus policy, budget, briefing, and performance-review tooling at Command. It integrates with Evidence.com. There is no overlap in inputs, outputs, or users.

ai-data-extractor is free — MIT-licensed, run locally, no account and no upload, so the only cost is your own time reading and adapting Python extractors. Truleo is freemium: a 60-day unlimited trial with no credit card, then a paid structure that, per the site, includes per-user seats plus roughly $100/month per connected application, with body-worn-camera redaction, automated interviews, and policy/budget/grant tooling gated to Investigations and Command tiers. Those are not two points on one price spectrum. One is a zero-cost developer utility; the other is a procurement line item an agency budgets alongside its RMS. Comparing "free vs freemium" here would mislead a buyer in both directions — a department cannot run Truleo's capabilities on a CLI, and a developer does not need a per-connected-application subscription to dump local chat logs.