RAGSuite vs a cloud RAG service.
A hosted RAG service is fast to start and someone else’s problem to run. It’s also your data on someone else’s infrastructure, your costs on a per-seat meter, and your dependency you can’t remove. RAGSuite keeps the control.
Hosted convenience, or control you keep.
In a regulated, German-speaking enterprise, the blocker isn’t model quality — it’s control. Data can’t leave the building, per-seat costs creep, and a single hallucination breaks trust for good.
- Your data leaves your perimeter
- Per-seat pricing that creeps
- Answers you can’t trace or audit
- A dependency you can’t remove
- Runs on your own infrastructure
- One predictable invoice, per seat
- A citation on every answer
- Open core — your data, your keys
It never leaves your perimeter.
Documents, vectors and metadata live in your own PostgreSQL, Redis and vector store. With local Ollama, nothing leaves at all. A compliant cloud still places your data — and your dependency — outside your control.
Transparent per-seat, no metering surprises.
Cloud RAG meters usage and creeps year over year as you roll out. RAGSuite is transparent per-seat pricing billed as one predictable annual invoice, in EUR — €25 per user a month, the same rate as your team grows (lower per seat at volume), with no annual hikes.
Control you can prove.
No data egress
Your perimeter, your keys, your models — verifiable at the network layer.
No lock-in
Open core, Apache 2.0 — export your data anytime, inspect the code.
No metering surprises
Transparent per-seat EUR pricing your finance team can predict.
Full audit on-prem
Compliance exports and retention under your own controllership.
A compliant cloud still outsources your control. Self-hosting keeps it.
RAGSuite vs cloud RAG, answered
Isn’t a cloud service easier?
To start, yes. But for a regulated DACH buyer the hard part isn’t setup — it’s control, residency and audit. Docker makes RAGSuite minutes to stand up, on your own terms.
Can we still use cloud models?
Yes — connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral or Gemini with your own keys, or keep everything local via Ollama. You choose per project.
What about a managed option?
An EU-sovereign managed cloud is on the roadmap as a future option alongside self-hosting — self-hosted remains the default today.
“Our clients in the housing sector cannot send tenant data to a US cloud. RAGSuite lets us give them a real AI assistant that never leaves their building.”
Self-hosted or cloud RAG? Decide with the facts.
We’ll map cloud-RAG cost and exposure against a self-hosted RAGSuite deployment for your case.