specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Poolside
providerId: poolside-ai
created: '2026-07-02'
modified: '2026-07-02'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- Foundation Models
- Enterprise
- On-Prem
- Plans
description: >-
  Poolside publishes no public price list, self-serve checkout, or free API
  tier. The poolside.ai marketing site has no pricing or contact-sales page in
  its navigation as of this review; engagement runs through direct
  conversations with Poolside's sales/solutions team, arranged via the
  "Government" and "Careers" contact surfaces or the company's own outreach.
  What is publicly documented is the delivery model, not the price: a full
  stack of models, agents, APIs, and applications deployed into infrastructure
  the customer controls (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud VPC, or fully on-prem /
  air-gapped), either on Poolside-pre-provisioned hardware (a single node
  supporting hundreds of developers) or on the customer's own NVIDIA GPU
  cluster installed via Helm. The one channel that is genuinely self-serve is
  third-party: Poolside's smaller open-weight model, Laguna XS 2.1, can be
  called through OpenRouter's own usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing, which is
  OpenRouter's plan, not Poolside's.
notes: >-
  No numeric commercial pricing is reconciled here because none is published.
  If Poolside later ships a self-serve tier or public price list, revisit this
  file against the live pricing page.
sources:
- https://poolside.ai/
- https://poolside.ai/enterprise
- https://docs.poolside.ai/
- https://openrouter.ai/poolside
plans:
- id: poolside-enterprise-cloud
  name: Enterprise - Cloud VPC
  type: enterprise
  description: >-
    Poolside deployed into the customer's own AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
    account/VPC, with full model weights delivered into that environment.
    Engagement and pricing are negotiated directly with Poolside.
  entries:
  - label: Enterprise Cloud Agreement
    name: enterprise_cloud
    type: flat
    metric: contract
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: year
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: contact sales
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Chat Completions API
  - name: Identity Management / SCIM API
  - name: Poolside Console
- id: poolside-enterprise-on-prem
  name: Enterprise - On-Prem / Air-Gapped
  type: enterprise
  description: >-
    Poolside installed on customer-owned NVIDIA GPU infrastructure via Helm,
    or on Poolside-pre-provisioned hardware, including fully air-gapped
    configurations with no external network dependency. Pricing depends on
    hardware, support, and scale and is negotiated directly with Poolside.
  entries:
  - label: Enterprise On-Prem Agreement
    name: enterprise_on_prem
    type: flat
    metric: contract
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: year
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: contact sales
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Air-Gapped Deployment
  - name: Pre-Provisioned Hardware Option
  - name: Customer GPU Cluster (Helm)
- id: poolside-openrouter-laguna-xs
  name: Laguna XS 2.1 via OpenRouter (Third-Party)
  type: usage
  description: >-
    Not a Poolside plan - OpenRouter's own usage-based pricing for calling
    Poolside's open-weight Laguna XS 2.1 model through OpenRouter's unified
    API. Included here because it is the only publicly self-serve way to call
    a Poolside model over HTTP without a Poolside sales engagement.
  entries:
  - label: Per-Token Usage (OpenRouter)
    name: openrouter_usage
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1000000
    price: see openrouter.ai/poolside for current per-token rates
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Hosted by OpenRouter, Not Poolside
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com