What is the best alternative to Cortecs for companies?

For companies that need SAML SSO with Microsoft Entra, Claude Code sign-in with work accounts and an admin audit log next to European routing, Standard Compute is a managed alternative with flat plans per person and app.

How does Cortecs pricing compare with Standard Compute?

Cortecs bills upstream provider rates converted to euros plus a 5% service fee. Standard Compute gives every person and app a flat monthly plan with a fixed budget that never overruns; plans are on pricing.

Does Standard Compute train on our data?

Standard Compute never trains on your prompts or outputs, and with a region rule or zero retention turned on, every request goes only to providers that commit not to train on it.

EnterpriseAlternatives

Enterprise alternative to Cortecs

Standard Compute is the enterprise alternative to Cortecs for companies that want European routing together with the identity and audit controls a security review asks for. It routes each step to the cheapest model that can do it and the cheapest provider fast enough to serve it, with a Europe rule, zero data retention, Microsoft Entra SSO, Claude Desktop and Claude Code sign-in with Microsoft work accounts, budgets per person and app, provider allow-lists and an admin audit log.

Cortecs is a Vienna router that bills upstream provider rates plus a 5% service fee, with a Sovereign Cloud option, budgets per project, team, user or key, and zero data retention. Companies look further when they need SAML single sign-on and a record of every admin change.

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Cortecs next to Standard Compute

Each row can be checked against the vendor's own pages. Cortecs's facts are linked in the sources at the end of this page, and anything Cortecs does not publish is marked "Not stated". Ours are on security, pricing and the enterprise overview.

Question	Cortecs	Standard Compute
Price model	Cortecs: Upstream provider rates converted to euros, plus a flat 5% service fee; prepaid with auto top-up.	Standard Compute: A flat monthly plan per person or app key, with a fixed budget that never overruns, and Stripe invoices with your company name and VAT number. Plans are on pricing.
Routing	Cortecs: Balanced, Speed or Cost strategy with provider failover and ordered model fallbacks.	Standard Compute: Each step goes to the cheapest model that can do it and the cheapest provider fast enough to serve it.
Models	Cortecs: 150+ models, including GPT, Claude, Gemini and open-weight models.	Standard Compute: Claude, GPT, Gemini and open models such as GLM, DeepSeek and MiniMax through one API.
Processing location	Cortecs: A Sovereign Cloud option that uses only EU-established providers; `eu_native` is off by default.	Standard Compute: A Europe rule for the company, a team or a key. Every request, including retries and fallbacks, is served only by approved European inference endpoints, and is refused before sending if none qualifies.
Retention and training	Cortecs: Prompts are never stored or used for training; zero data retention per request or per project.	Standard Compute: We never train on your prompts or outputs. Zero data retention can be required for the company, a team or a key, and lower levels can't switch it off.
Single sign-on	Cortecs: Social sign-in with Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn or GitHub. SAML single sign-on: not stated.	Standard Compute: Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML provider for the dashboard. Claude Desktop and Claude Code sign-in with a Microsoft work account, with access following Entra groups through SCIM.
Budgets	Cortecs: Per project, team, user or key, with daily, weekly or monthly resets; requests are blocked once exceeded.	Standard Compute: A fixed monthly budget for every person and every app key that never overruns, plus spending caps per key and for the whole company.
Allow-lists	Cortecs: Provider allow-list with per-team overrides. Model allow-lists: not stated.	Standard Compute: Provider allow-lists for the company, a team or a key, where new providers need an admin's approval. Models chosen per key.
Audit log	Cortecs: A Logs view with member, key, model, provider, tokens and cost. An audit log of admin changes: not stated.	Standard Compute: An admin audit log with before and after values, and an export of every request with model, serving provider and region rule, kept for 12 months.
Claude Code and agents	Cortecs: Claude Code through `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`; OpenAI-compatible API.	Standard Compute: Claude Code and Claude Desktop connect to the gateway with `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`; OpenAI-compatible tools use `https://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1`.

Cortecs pricing is from cortecs.ai/pricing. Cortecs lists ISO 27001 on its site.

What changes with Standard Compute

The cheapest model, then the cheapest provider

Cortecs picks a provider for the model you name. Standard Compute also picks the model: each step goes to the cheapest model that can do it and the cheapest provider fast enough to serve it, so routine steps stop paying frontier prices.

Identity and records for the security review

Connect Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML identity provider so your people sign in with their work accounts, and employees sign in to Claude Desktop and Claude Code with their Microsoft work account, with access following your Entra groups through SCIM. Every admin change is recorded with before and after values.

Security and control

Our EU gateway terminates TLS and runs in Finland, and your account data is stored in Frankfurt. Zero data retention and the Europe rule are set once for the company; teams and keys inherit them and can never switch them off underneath you.

Lower levels can only narrow a provider list, and fallbacks can never route around it. Sign our Data Processing Agreement in the dashboard, and see every sub-processor we use, with 14 days' notice before a new one is added.

When each option fits

When Cortecs fits

You want an EU router that bills each provider's own rates plus a small fee, with budgets per team and invoice payment, and your sign-in needs are covered by social login.

When Standard Compute fits

Your review asks for SAML SSO with Entra, Claude Desktop and Claude Code sign-in with work accounts, an admin audit log and a request export, and you want flat monthly plans per person and app with each step routed to the cheapest capable model.

Using both

Both speak the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, so you can trial Standard Compute on one team's keys before moving more traffic.

Moving from Cortecs

Create a company workspace
Create the company in the dashboard, invite colleagues by email and organize them into teams.
Set the rules once
Set a Europe rule, zero data retention, and the providers and models you approve for the company. Teams and keys inherit them and can only narrow them.
Connect Microsoft Entra ID
Add SAML single sign-on for the dashboard, and set up Claude Desktop and Claude Code sign-in with Microsoft work accounts.
Give every person and app a key
Each key gets its own monthly budget and the models it may use.
Move the traffic
Swap the base URL and key in each app, and ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL in Claude Code.

Environment, before and after

# Before
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.cortecs.ai/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=$CORTECS_API_KEY

# After: Standard Compute EU gateway
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_STANDARD_COMPUTE_KEY

# Claude Code
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://eu.stdcmpt.com
ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=YOUR_STANDARD_COMPUTE_KEY

Common questions from IT and procurement

What is the best alternative to Cortecs for companies?: For companies that need SAML SSO with Microsoft Entra, Claude Code sign-in with work accounts and an admin audit log next to European routing, Standard Compute is a managed alternative with flat plans per person and app.
How does Cortecs pricing compare with Standard Compute?: Cortecs bills upstream provider rates converted to euros plus a 5% service fee. Standard Compute gives every person and app a flat monthly plan with a fixed budget that never overruns; plans are on pricing.
Does Standard Compute train on our data?: Standard Compute never trains on your prompts or outputs, and with a region rule or zero retention turned on, every request goes only to providers that commit not to train on it.
Does it work with Microsoft Entra ID?: Yes. The dashboard takes Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML identity provider, and employees sign in to Claude Desktop and Claude Code with their Microsoft work account, with access following your Entra groups through SCIM.

Sources

Every statement about Cortecs on this page comes from Cortecs's own pricing, help and documentation pages, checked on 9 November 2026.

Create a company workspace, set a Europe rule and zero data retention once, connect Microsoft Entra ID, and give every person and app a key with its own budget.

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