The case for private AI

Meet your new private AI. It's about protecting your data and what you build.

Public cloud is useful: for quick tests, occasional spikes, for what's not sensitive. The question is what happens when AI stops being an experiment and becomes part of daily operations in your development or at an institution. That's where a private node changes the rules.

Comparison

Token-based public cloud vs. your new Xeretron private AI node.

CriterionCloud APIXeretron on your infrastructure
Where processing runsProvider data centersYour organization's servers
Cost modelPer token consumedUpfront investment + operations
How spend behavesGrows linearly with usageFlattens as volume increases
Model choiceProvider catalogXeretron-owned models you select
Price changesUnilateralUnder your control
AvailabilityDepends on the internet and the serviceRuns on local network per architecture
AuditProvider reportsYour own security and inference logs
Resulting assetNo infrastructure ownershipInstalled, depreciable capacity
Effort curveLow at the startRequires evaluation and guided deployment
Best forTests, spikes, non-sensitive workloadsSteady use, sensitive data, local governance

Four reasons

Why institutions choose to govern their own AI.

Sovereignty

You decide which models run, what data is processed, and how far it goes. Sovereignty without isolation.

Predictable cost

With steady workloads, cost becomes an investment decision—not a monthly surprise.

Resilience

Local operation doesn't depend on an external service being up right now.

Dedicated compute

GPU dedicated to your organization—no sharing usage limits with anyone else.

Node economics

The break-even point, explained without hype.

With the cloud, monthly spend rises in proportion to usage. With Xeretron, the curve is upfront capital plus monthly operations (power and support). Where the two curves cross is break-even.

meses_de_equilibrio = CAPEX ÷ (costo_cloud_mensual − ops_mensual)

  • Indicative SMB blended profile: ~$1.50 input and ~$6.00 output per million tokens.
  • Installation investment by plan from $599 to $7,999 USD depending on scope (Personal from $599 for a limited time).
  • Annual license and update maintenance from $299 to $1,399 USD depending on plan.

Disclaimer. All figures are illustrative estimates. They depend on actual usage, hardware, local power, support contracted, and models chosen. We don't publish guaranteed savings.

Official pricing by plan

PlanInstallationMaintenance/year
Personal$599 (regular $1,299)$299
Starter$2.999$799
Institution$4.999$999
Business$7.999$1.399

Official installation prices in USD. Each additional user above the plan limit adds $29 USD/year; additional GPU license $99/year.

Technical honesty

When Xeretron is NOT a fit.

Better to say it here than to find out on an invoice or a stalled project.

Very low or sporadic use

If you query only a few times a month, a cloud API will still be cheaper and simpler.

No technical owner at all

We train and support you, but the organization must designate someone to care for the node.

Specific closed models

If you need exclusively a vendor's proprietary model, that doesn't install on-premise.

Hybrid is valid too. Many projects keep private workloads on Xeretron and use public cloud for one-off experiments. The choice is yours, and the panel is designed to make it explicit.

The question is no longer "Do we use AI?" It's: whose AI will it be?