Choosing an enterprise AI platform
A vendor-neutral evaluation checklist — API compatibility, governance, retrieval, security, deployment control, and SLAs — with Bee's concrete, verifiable answers to each.
Evaluation checklist
- →API compatibility — OpenAI-compatible so your stack and SDKs work? Bee: yes.
- →Governance — is there a release/eval gate and published evidence, or opaque updates? Bee: governed-release pipeline + a public trust page with verification records.
- →Retrieval — first-class RAG with per-tenant isolation? Bee: yes, up to 25,000 documents on Hive.
- →Security posture — NIST post-quantum at rest, stated per capability? Bee: ML-KEM/ML-DSA envelope, honesty about what runs first-party vs external.
- →Deployment control — SaaS plus a private/sovereign path? Bee: Bee Enclave.
- →SLA — a contractual uptime commitment on the paid tiers? Bee: 99.5% on Hive, 99.9% on Swarm.
How Bee is architected for this
Bee is one progressive platform across tiers with a single OpenAI-compatible API, built-in retrieval, a hosted MCP server, editor integrations, and a governance layer where capabilities are eval-gated and published with a validation record before they reach production routing.
The same platform scales from a free public tier to sovereign deployment — so a proof-of-concept and a regulated production workload do not require two different vendors or two different integrations.
Questions worth asking any vendor
- →Which capabilities are first-party vs routed to a named external provider?
- →Is the data-at-rest encryption quantum-resistant, and can you verify it?
- →Can we deploy privately without re-integrating against a different API?
- →Are prompts used for training?
Frequently asked questions
- What makes Bee suitable for regulated teams?
- A NIST post-quantum data-at-rest posture with published verification, a governed-release pipeline, per-tenant retrieval isolation, uptime SLAs on paid tiers, and a sovereign Enclave deployment path.
- Does Bee publish evidence for its security claims?
- Yes — a public trust page carries verification records, and the platform states which capabilities are first-party versus served via named external providers.
- Is there an uptime SLA?
- Yes — the paid tiers carry contractual uptime SLAs (Hive 99.5%, Swarm 99.9%).
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Start on the free tier
Bee Cell is free — no card. Scale to paid tiers, the API, or sovereign deployment when you are ready.