Sovereign on-premises, hosted or hybrid: which mode should you choose?
The platform is deployed in one of three ways. The choice depends on the data, the target compliance and the available server room. Cost details are covered in on-premises or API and in the price guide.
| Criterion | Sovereign on-premises | Sovereign hosted | Hybrid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data | stays within your walls, on your hardware | stays in France, in a managed datacentre under French and European law | confidential content stays local, only mundane content may overflow |
| Compliance | GDPR, HDS and SecNumCloud objectives by construction | carried by the managed host, under French and European law | the semantic router classifies every request before the call |
| Cost | depreciated hardware, free key-value cache under vLLM | predictable managed-service fee, no heavy upfront investment | depreciated local capacity, overflow billed per token |
| Scaling | by adding GPUs or nodes on site | in tiers, on request from the host | immediate on external APIs |
| Typical profile | small to large enterprises with a rack or a server room | organisations without a server room | usage peaks and public content |
A platform designed, deployed and operated with this method already runs in production: gironde.qdna.fr, the Gironde case study.