Pilae
Managed open-source apps and private AI, on your own servers or in a Swiss region.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss Data OptionSwiss hosting is available as an option or for part of the service, but is not the default for everything.
- Self-hostableCan be installed on your own servers or on-premises.
pilae.com
Overview
Pilae is a managed service from Pilae SA in Lausanne, founded in 2026, that installs and operates open-source applications and private AI for organisations. Its catalogue of about 40 apps covers collaboration and identity (for example Nextcloud, Keycloak and Mattermost), workflow and data tools such as n8n, business software such as Odoo, and language-model tools such as Open WebUI, Ollama and vLLM. A control plane handles deployments, backups, logs and single sign-on, and an AI agent plans each change and applies it only after approval.
Apps run on the customer’s own servers by default, including air-gapped sites, or on dedicated machines in Pilae Cloud. Of its 12 regions, Zurich is the one in Switzerland; five are in the EU and six elsewhere, including the United States. Pilae does not publicly name the hosting providers behind each region; they are listed in the data processing agreement.
Pricing consists of a fixed onboarding fee and a monthly price per managed app, quoted individually and invoiced in CHF or EUR; a bundle for start-ups is listed at 249 dollars per month plus external usage. The company was entered in the commercial register in April 2026.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
Pilae is operated by Pilae SA, which is headquartered in Lausanne, Vaud. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
Swiss hosting is available for part of the service or as an option — check the hosting details below before relying on it.
May replace
- ChatGPTOpenAI · USPrivate chat assistants such as Open WebUI or LibreChat with open models, operated on infrastructure chosen by the customer.
- Microsoft 365Microsoft Corporation · USPartial; Pilae operates open-source collaboration apps such as Nextcloud, Collabora Online and Jitsi Meet rather than developing its own office suite.
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Lausanne, Vaud (VD), SwitzerlandVerified[3]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- Unknown / not verified
Pilae states that it is a Swiss company with no US parent or subsidiary. Its shareholders are not published.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- Unknown / not verified
Pilae SA is based in Lausanne; where its platform and agent are developed is not stated.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Optional — Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Finland, United Kingdom, United States, Singapore, Japan and AustraliaVendor claim[3]
Apps run on the customer's own servers by default or on dedicated machines in one of 12 Pilae Cloud regions. Zurich is the region for data that must stay in Switzerland; backups go to a second site in the same jurisdiction.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Unknown / not verified
Pilae states that machines in Swiss and EU regions are run by European data-centre operators in ISO 27001-certified data centres. The public network edge and email delivery use a US-owned provider.
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
- Support languages
Privacy & security
- Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC)
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
- None listed
Pricing
Paid plans fromUSD 249 / monthStartup Stack bundle for start-ups, plus external usage; other plans are a fixed onboarding price and a monthly price per managed app, quoted individually
- Pricing model
- On request
- Free plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Free trial
- Unknown / not verified
- Enterprise plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Billing in CHF
- Yes
Prices checked 16 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Company
Lausanne-based company founded in 2026 that operates open-source applications and private AI for organisations, on their own servers or in its own cloud.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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