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, metered usage makes the bill impossible to forecast, and a single hallucination breaks trust for good.
- Your data leaves your perimeter
- Metered usage you can’t forecast
- 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.
Metered AI pricing is impossible to forecast before you have rolled 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 every rate published to the top of the ladder.
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.