Procurement
How to buy the API Platform: directly from Safeguard, under an enterprise agreement, or through your cloud provider, and what your vendor review will need.
Early access. The API Platform is switched off by default, and Safeguard switches it on per workspace. To start, choose Use with Safeguard on a model at safeguard.sh/models, or email hi@safeguard.sh.
What you pay for
Model usage, at the provider's list price with no markup, paid from your workspace's prepaid credit. The inference API draws only on that credit, which is separate from your Safeguard plan. See Pricing and billing.
Buying direct
Safeguard switches the API Platform on for your workspace and adds credit to it. Once card top-up is switched on, a tenant admin or super admin can also buy credit in the Console with a card, on Stripe's checkout page.
Safeguard's plans are on safeguard.sh/pricing.
Enterprise agreements
For committed volume or a dedicated deployment, email hi@safeguard.sh. For where a dedicated deployment can run, see Deployment options.
Buying through your cloud provider
Buying the API Platform through a cloud marketplace is not available yet. If your company buys software that way, for example to use committed cloud spend, tell Safeguard which marketplace you use. The Console has no marketplace option: credit comes from Safeguard or, once it is switched on, a card top-up.
How Safeguard sources models
The gateway calls each third-party model's provider with Safeguard's own credentials, so you don't need an account with the provider. Before a model is sold, Safeguard confirms that the provider's terms allow it to resell the model at list price, and the gateway refuses the model until that is recorded.
To use a provider account you already have, see Bring your own model.
For your vendor review
- Security and compliance status, subprocessors and documents on request: Safeguard's Trust Center
- Data Processing Agreement: safeguard.sh/legal/dpa
- How the API Platform handles your data: Privacy and data and Security and compliance
Related
Deployment options
Where the API Platform can run, from Safeguard's hosted API to an air-gapped install, how mature each option is, and which models each one can use.
FAQ
Short answers about the API Platform: access, compatibility, models, pricing, credit, limits, data handling, keys, streaming and deployment.