Want to build it yourself instead?
Four paths exist for buyers who can't post to public AI tools. Per-token rate is set by the model, not the path. Self-host swaps tokens for GPU rental. The differentiator is sovereignty posture and the engineering layer the buyer must build, rent, or buy.
Hyperscaler with Swiss DC
Azure OpenAI (Switzerland North), AWS Bedrock (Zurich, eu-central-2). Google Vertex AI has no Swiss region; closest is Frankfurt or Netherlands.
SovereigntyDPA-compliant. US CLOUD Act applies because the operator is US-domiciled, even when the data centre is in Switzerland. Multi-tenant infra even when logically isolated.
What you still buildRetrieval, RBAC, citations, audit logs, ops
Year oneTokens ~CHF 5-30K + integration CHF 150-300K Y1, CHF 60-120K maint.
EU-sovereign managed
Mistral La Plateforme (FR), Aleph Alpha (DE)
SovereigntyNo US Cloud Act. EU GDPR scope. Smaller catalogue, frontier reasoning gap closing.
What you still buildRetrieval, RBAC, citations, audit logs, ops
Year oneTokens ~CHF 5-30K + integration CHF 150-300K Y1, CHF 60-120K maint.
Self-host open weights
Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral on Hetzner, Exoscale, OVH, or owned GPUs
SovereigntyFull sovereignty. Single-tenant. Customer-controlled.
What you still buildEverything above plus model selection, GPU capacity, model ops
Year oneGPU CHF 30-100K + engineering CHF 200-400K Y1, CHF 120-200K maint.
Datavera Cloud
Document Suite on Datavera Cloud, 1-5 users, cancel any month
SovereigntyFull sovereignty. Swiss perimeter. Single-tenant.
What you still buildNothing. Retrieval, citations, audit, ops included.
Year oneFrom CHF 6,000
Datavera On-Premise
Document Suite on customer hardware, 1-5 users, no minimum term
SovereigntyFull sovereignty. Customer perimeter. Air-gapped option available.
What you still buildNothing. Retrieval, citations, audit, ops included.
Year oneFrom CHF 3,600 + hardware
Integration estimates assume retrieval, chunking, embeddings, citations, evals, RBAC, audit logging, and FADP-aligned hosting wired around the model. Anchored on a Swiss senior engineer fully-loaded rate of ~CHF 200K/year (typical Zurich market 2026): roughly one engineer year-one for hyperscaler and EU-sovereign paths, one and a half to two for self-host (adds GPU and model ops). Half an FTE for ongoing maintenance.