Why companies look for an alternative to nexos.ai
From nexos.ai’s own pricing and documentation, checked 7 November 2026:
- A short record: logs are retained and available for the last 7 days only.
- Retention varies by model: the model list shows 0 days for most models and 30 or 60 days for some Claude models, under the note that nexos.ai makes no guarantees about the accuracy of that information.
- Limits by API are team-only: through the gateway API only team limits can be set, and workspace-wide and per-user limits cannot be changed.
- Credits run until they are gone: API credits are prepaid at 1 euro per credit, and nexos.ai says there are no hard limits; usage continues until your credit balance reaches zero.
- SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning and an admin audit log are not published in the nexos.ai documentation.
What Standard Compute does differently
A single API gives you frontier and open-source models, and it routes each step to the cheapest model that can do it and the cheapest provider fast enough to serve it.
On nexos.ai you pick a model per chat or per request and it draws on seat or API credits. Standard Compute does the model choice for you: routine agent steps go to a model priced for that work, the hard step goes to a frontier model, and each request is served by the cheapest provider that meets the latency and tokens-per-second bar. You pay a flat monthly plan per person or app.
Control is set once for the company:
Processing in Europe
Set a Europe rule for your company, a team or a single key, and every request, including retries and fallbacks, is served only by approved European inference endpoints. If no European endpoint can serve it, the request is refused before your prompt is sent. Our EU gateway terminates TLS and runs in Finland, and your account data is stored in Frankfurt.
Zero data retention
Turn on zero data retention for your company, a team or a key, and every request is routed only to inference endpoints that commit to keeping no copy of your data. Teams and keys inherit the requirement and can never switch it off underneath you.
No training
Standard Compute never trains on your prompts or outputs. With a region rule or zero retention turned on, every request goes only to providers that commit not to train on it.
Single sign-on
Connect Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML identity provider so your people sign in with their work accounts. Employees sign in to Claude Desktop and Claude Code with their Microsoft work account through our EU gateway, and access follows your Entra groups through SCIM provisioning.
Teams and keys
Organize your company into teams, invite colleagues by email, and give every person and every app its own key, all under one company account.
Budgets
Every person and app gets a fixed monthly budget that never overruns, and you can set spending caps per key and for the whole company. Optional top-off from a prepaid company balance keeps critical agents running.
Allow-lists
Choose exactly which inference providers may handle your data, for the whole company, a team or a single key. New providers are never added without an admin's approval, and fallbacks can never route around your list. Decide which models each key can use.
Audit
Every admin change is recorded with before and after values, and you can export a record of every request showing the model, the provider that served it and the region rule in force, kept for 12 months.
Contract
Sign our Data Processing Agreement in the dashboard. It commits us to no training on your data, no retention of your content, and breach notification within 72 hours. We publish every sub-processor and give you 14 days' notice before adding a new one.
Standard Compute and nexos.ai compared
| Standard Compute | nexos.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Flat monthly plan per person or app with no per-token surprises; Stripe invoices with your company name and VAT number | Seat plans of 1 or 12 months and Enterprise custom, prices Not published in docs; prepaid API credits at 1 euro per credit |
| Cost routing | Each step goes to the cheapest model that can do it and the cheapest provider fast enough to serve it | Not published |
| Models | Claude, GPT, Gemini and open models (GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax, Kimi) through one API | Claude, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, MiniMax and others through nexos.ai, or your own provider keys |
| Processing in Europe | Europe rule per company, team or key; retries and fallbacks stay on approved European endpoints; refused before sending if none qualifies | EU tag per model in the model list; a workspace-wide Europe rule: Not published |
| Zero data retention | Per company, team or key; lower levels cannot switch it off | Set per model; most at 0 days, some Claude models 30 or 60 days |
| Training on your data | Never trains on prompts or outputs | Listed per model; No for nearly all |
| Single sign-on | SAML SSO, Microsoft Entra ID included; Claude Desktop and Claude Code sign-in with a Microsoft work account, SCIM from Entra | Not published |
| Teams and keys | Teams, roles, a key per person and per app | Teams with team API keys |
| Spend limits | Fixed monthly budget per key; requests are refused once it is used; caps per key and per company | Credit limits per member and team; only team limits through the API |
| Provider and model allow-lists | Provider allow-list per company, team or key; new providers need an admin; models chosen per key | Models on or off per team; organization-wide trusted models |
| Audit log | Admin log with before and after values; request export with model, provider and region rule, kept 12 months | Request logs kept 7 days. Admin audit log: Not published |
| DPA | Signed in the dashboard | Not published in docs |
When nexos.ai fits
nexos.ai fits a company that mainly wants a chat workspace for employees with a choice of models, billed in euro credits, and uses the gateway API for a few internal tools.
Moving from nexos.ai to Standard Compute
Standard Compute’s API runs on stdcmpt.com. https://eu.stdcmpt.com is our EU gateway in Finland.
- Create a company workspace and set the rules once for the company: a Europe rule, zero data retention, and the providers and models you approve. Teams and keys inherit them.
- Recreate nexos.ai teams as Standard Compute teams and replace team API keys with a key per person and per app, each with its own monthly budget.
- Change the base URL from
https://api.nexos.ai/v1tohttps://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1and swap the key. The OpenAI-compatible client code stays. - Point Claude Code at
https://eu.stdcmpt.comin place ofhttps://api.nexos.ai. - Connect Microsoft Entra ID or your SAML identity provider so your people sign in with their work accounts, and set up Claude Desktop and Claude Code sign-in with Microsoft work accounts.
# Before
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.nexos.ai/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=$NEXOS_API_KEY
# After: Standard Compute EU gateway
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_STANDARD_COMPUTE_KEY# Claude Code adds /v1/messages itself
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://eu.stdcmpt.com
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=YOUR_STANDARD_COMPUTE_KEY
claudeQuestions
What is a good nexos.ai alternative for a company that needs SSO and an audit trail?
Standard Compute connects Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML identity provider, records every admin change with before and after values, and keeps a record of every request with the model, the provider that served it and the region rule for 12 months.
Can we make zero data retention the rule for every model?
Turn on zero data retention for your company, a team or a key, and every request is routed only to inference endpoints that commit to keeping no copy of your data. Teams and keys inherit the requirement and can never switch it off.
Can we cap spend per developer?
Every person and app gets its own key with a fixed monthly budget that never overruns, and you can set spending caps per key and for the whole company.
Does it work with Claude Code and Claude Desktop for the whole team?
Point Claude Code and Claude Desktop at Standard Compute and your team stops hitting 5-hour and weekly caps: agents run until the monthly budget is used. Employees can sign in with their Microsoft work account through our EU gateway.
How do we migrate from nexos.ai?
Create a company workspace and set your rules, then change the base URL from https://api.nexos.ai/v1 to https://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1 and swap the key.
Set up your company
Create a company workspace, invite your team and set your rules from the dashboard. Security questionnaires and procurement questions go to contact@standardcompute.com.
Create a company workspaceor write to contact@standardcompute.com
Sources (checked 7 November 2026)
- nexos.ai docs indexdocs.nexos.ai
- Gateway API quickstartdocs.nexos.ai
- Observabilitydocs.nexos.ai
- Modelsdocs.nexos.ai
- Budget limit managementdocs.nexos.ai
- API credits add-ondocs.nexos.ai
- Billingdocs.nexos.ai
- Teamsdocs.nexos.ai
- Claude Codedocs.nexos.ai