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AI infrastructure
you actually own.

A production-grade AI platform that runs entirely on your hardware. Chat assistant. OpenAI-compatible API. Zero data leaves your walls.

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Everything you need to run AI in-house

AI Chat Assistant

A polished conversational interface for your entire organization. Multi-model support, conversation history, and team management — all running on your infrastructure.

Multi-model Team management Search & history Custom prompts
VolksAI Chat on-prem
Y
You Summarize our Q4 revenue report

OpenAI-Compatible API

Swap your OpenAI endpoint URL and your existing code just works. Power internal tools, automations, and custom applications with the same API you already know.

Chat completions Streaming Function calling API key mgmt
app.js 
// Just change the base URL
const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://ai.yourcompany.com/v1",
  apiKey: "sk-your-internal-key"
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "llama-3",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
Data Sovereignty

Your data never leaves your perimeter

Every request, every token, every embedding stays on hardware you control. The only thing that crosses your firewall is the update check — if you enable it.

YOUR NETWORK Users Your private VolksAI Your private LLM api.openai.com UNREACHABLE
Requests
Responses
Blocked egress
Why Self-Host

Your data never leaves your network

Total Privacy

Conversations, documents, and API calls stay on your servers. No third-party ever sees your data.

No Vendor Lock-in

Swap models freely. Run Llama, Mistral, or any model you want. Your infrastructure, your choice.

Full Control

Fine-tune models, set rate limits, manage access. Tailor everything to your organization's needs.

Predictable Costs

No per-token billing surprises. Run unlimited queries on your hardware at a fixed infrastructure cost.

Compliance Ready

Meet GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 requirements effortlessly. Data sovereignty is built in, not bolted on.

Unlimited Users

No per-seat pricing. Give your entire organization access to AI without worrying about license costs.

Honest Comparison

Same API. Better trade‑offs.

What you gain and what you give up. No spin.

OpenAI API
VolksAI
self-hosted
Your data never leaves your network
$0 per token, forever
Pick any open-weight model
Works with the OpenAI SDK
Runs fully air-gapped
Zero infrastructure to manage
Unlimited throughput on your hardware
HIPAA / GDPR compliant by default
Two honest losses for VolksAI: you do run your own servers, and one comparison row depends on how you count them.
OpenAI Compatible

Change one line.
Keep all your code.

Every SDK, library, and tool built for OpenAI works with VolksAI out of the box. Swap the base URL, keep everything else.

POST /v1/chat/completions
POST /v1/completions
GET /v1/models
POST /v1/embeddings
app.py openai volksai 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.openai.com/v1""https://ai.yourcompany.com/v1",
    api_key="sk-internal-key"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="llama-3",
    messages=[{"role": "user",
                "content": "Summarize Q4"}],
    stream=True
)

for chunk in response:
    print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="")
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response idle

Ready to own your AI?

Deploy VolksAI in minutes. Keep your data where it belongs — with you.

$ curl -fsSL https://app.volksai.io/install.sh | bash
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