Category comparison
Cloud AI coding agents vs sovereign on-prem AI.
Cloud agents are excellent where cloud is approved. NeueCode is designed for organizations where cloud AI is not allowed.
| Capability | Cloud coding agents | NeueCode |
|---|---|---|
| Where the AI brain runs | Usually the vendor's cloud | Inside the customer's network — on your servers |
| Where file / shell / git / test run | The vendor's cloud | The developer's own desktop — the server only decides which tool to call; the web client gets zero machine tools |
| Air-gap ready | Usually not | Yes — an install that doesn't phone home; strict mode makes egress structurally unreachable to the agent |
| Local models on customer GPUs | Limited | Yes — open-weight models (Qwen3-Coder-class and others) served on your GPUs by a VRAM-aware gateway |
| Self-correction | The model grades itself | A deterministic external verifier over the real trajectory |
| Works without a required vendor cloud | No | Yes — no core path depends on an external service |
| Identity & sign-in | Federated out to a vendor tenant | Terminates on your appliance, keyed to your directory (AD/LDAP SSO, SAML 2.0) — lock a user and every surface is cut off on the next request |
| Tamper-evident audit trail | Limited, or held by the vendor | Yes — a hash-chained Flight Recorder plus signed manifests |
| Egress proof | Limited | In strict mode: signed per-run manifests your auditor verifies offline |
| Compliance evidence | A SOC 2 report about the vendor's cloud | A self-verifying evidence bundle about your own box — mapped (not certified) to EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2, SOC 2 CC6, and ISO 42001 |
| Version control & updates | The vendor's cadence, no rollback | Operator-pinned signed updates that roll back on failure — air-gapped by design |
| Sovereign on-prem deployment | Not a core focus | Core focus — on your own GPUs, air-gap ready, with a bilingual EN/AR workbench |
| Commercial model | Per seat and/or per token — metered usage, controls published by each vendor | One licence per active server, unlimited developers on it (within server capacity) — no per-token licence fees from NeueCode |
This compares two categories, not named vendors. Our sourced, named product comparisons are published at the comparisons index. How the commercial models differ is set out on the pricing model page.
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