--- title: "Against EU workspaces and company platforms · AssistantGeneral" description: "The cloud closer to home, and governance at enterprise scale and price." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/compare/company-platforms/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- Competitive comparison · 4 of 9 # Against EU workspaces and company platforms. The cloud closer to home, and governance at enterprise scale and price. | Product | Own hardware | Your files | Workflows | Connectors | Messaging | MCP | Voice | Admin (theirs) | Admin (yours) | No internet | Desktop | Pricing | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AssistantGeneral★ This product · checked against our code, 12 October 2026 Private beta, Windows only. The admin console runs on one of your own machines; company sign-in (SSO, SCIM) only in pilots. Works with no internet once set up — activating a licence needs a connection once. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | Private beta — no published price yet | | Enterprise AI platforms | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cohere North (+ Aleph Alpha) Self-hosted on as few as two GPUs. Merger with Aleph Alpha agreed 16 September 2026. | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | By quote (six figures, per secondary sources) | | H2O.ai Enterprise h2oGPTe Runs its own small models on premises, air-gapped if needed. FedRAMP High. | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | By quote, fixed cost | | Google Vertex AI / Gemini Enterprise Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud — a separate product — runs on premises, air-gapped. | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Partial | No | Pay per use | | IBM watsonx Orchestrate Can be deployed on premises; air-gapped use not confirmed. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | No | Partial | No | Essentials from $530/mo / Standard $6,360/mo / Premium by quote | | AWS Bedrock + AgentCore Building blocks: the assistant your staff use is built on top. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Pay per use | | Glean Can use your own model key. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Custom (~$50/user/mo, ~100-seat minimum — third-party estimate) | | Writer Unrestricted connectors on Enterprise only. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Starter ~$29–39/user/mo (up to 5 users) / Enterprise custom | | Microsoft Copilot Studio Not re-checked since June 2026, apart from its 1,500+ connectors. Not re-checked since June 2026 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | $200+/tenant/mo (not re-checked) | Yes~Partly, or only in some editions No?Not checked — unknown, not no - **Own hardware:** — The AI model can run on hardware you own — your PC or your own server. - **Your files:** — Searches your own documents and answers from them. - **Workflows:** — Multi-step automations; a visual builder counts as full. - **Connectors:** — Ten or more built-in data connectors. - **Messaging:** — Works as a bot in Slack, Teams, WhatsApp or Telegram. - **MCP:** — Model Context Protocol: plugs into outside tools. - **Voice:** — Speech in and out (partial: cloud-only or one direction). - **Admin (theirs):** — Admin console run by the vendor, in its own cloud: sign-in, roles, audit. - **Admin (yours):** — Admin console and policy you host on your own machines. - **No internet:** — Works with no internet connection at all. - **Desktop:** — Native desktop application. Rows checked on 30 September 2026 against each vendor’s own pages (sources at the end of this page); our own row against our own code on 12 October 2026. Off the table since the last version: Flowise reached end of life on 31 August 2026. Backyard AI's desktop app is discontinued. Enchanted was superseded by another app from the same developer. Prices and features change quickly — check before you buy, and tell us if a cell is wrong. Contents 1. 01EU-hosted workspaces: the cloud, closer to home 2. 02Company platforms: governance at enterprise scale, and at enterprise price 01 ## EU-hosted workspaces: the cloud, closer to home Langdock, Dust and Mistral’s Le Chat sell a company assistant hosted in the EU, with the model included for roughly €24–25 a seat, single sign-on and — for Langdock and Dust — security certifications. For a firm whose rules accept an EU processor under a contract, that is often the sensible answer, and it is cheaper to start with than anything that runs in your own office. Where they stop is your front door. The documents still travel to a provider’s data centre, and self-hosting is reserved for very large customers (Langdock from 5,000 seats) or for Mistral’s enterprise contracts. When a regulator, a client contract or your own judgement says the files stay in the office, they are not an option. 02 ## Company platforms: governance at enterprise scale, and at enterprise price Copilot Studio, AWS Bedrock, Google’s Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Glean and Writer are cloud platforms with mature governance, large connector libraries and MCP throughout. Some do run on premises: Cohere North on as few as two GPUs, H2O with its own small models air-gapped, and Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud as a separate product. They are built and priced for large organisations: sales-led projects, GPU clusters, Glean’s minimum of around a hundred seats, six-figure Cohere deals. For a ten-person practice they are the wrong size, not the wrong idea. [Previous Against self-hosted AI servers.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/compare/self-hosted/) [Next Against automation builders.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/compare/automation-builders/) [All of AssistantGeneral compare](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/compare/)