# Bee — The Progressive Quantum-Native Intelligence Engine

> Bee — The Progressive Quantum-Native Intelligence Engine — is a tiered LLM platform from HEOSSI (Pte.) Ltd., a Singapore-incorporated company (UEN 202532790K). Seven customer-selectable tiers form the Intelligence Ladder (Cell → Brood → Comb → Buzz → Hive → Swarm → Enclave) covering public access, professional reasoning, builder workflows, team operations, enterprise specialist intelligence, high-assurance reasoning, and sovereign deployment. Post-quantum cryptography (FIPS 203/204/205) is available for Bee Enclave Sovereign deployments.

## Tier ladder

- **Bee Cell** — Fast, fine-tuned AI — free to start.
- **Bee Brood** — Developing reasoning tier — small, fast, thinks before it answers.
- **Bee Comb** — Workstation-grade AI for serious builders.
- **Bee Buzz** — Agent and builder workhorse — tools, planning, longer chains.
- **Bee Hive** — Shared team AI without frontier-model cost.
- **Bee Swarm** — Premium reasoning at cloud scale.

## Tier & release status (derived from the live-verified capability SSOT)

- **All tiers serve on governed, pinned base models** — Cell → Swarm are production-deployed on Modal (scale-to-zero; Cell is free and always-on). Base-model identities are governed and audited internally, not disclosed in marketing copy.
- **Domain adapters are eval-gated and released through the governed pipeline** — none merged into production routing yet, so tiers serve base-equivalent today. Each released adapter ships with a published validation record at /trust.
- **Bee Enclave** — a private / auditable / sovereign deployment mode for any Hive/Swarm-class workload, not a larger model tier.
- **Bee Ignite** — internal R&D substrate. Not customer-selectable, not sold; findings backflow to the production tiers over time.

## What is live today (derived from the capability SSOT)

- **OpenAI-compatible API** — drop-in `/chat/completions`; switch the base URL and key.
- **Free Cell tier** — hosted access, no card, 128K-token context window.
- **Vision (image input)** — Cell, Comb, Buzz, Hive, Swarm.
- **Video input** — Comb, Buzz, Hive.
- **Tool / function calling** — Comb, Buzz, Hive.
- **JSON mode (structured output)** — Comb, Buzz, Hive.
- **1M-token long context** — Comb, Buzz, Swarm (Comb and Buzz via a dedicated long-context mode; Swarm natively). Base tiers stay at their native 256K.
- **RAG (retrieval)** — document upload → chunk → embed → index → cite-back, per-tenant isolation.
- **MCP server** — `bee-mcp` (ships with the Python SDK), hosted gateway, listed on the official MCP Registry as io.github.heossi-hq/bee.
- **Quantum-reasoning jobs** — Quantum Hardware Pack holders submit real, metered QPU jobs to IBM Heron r2 backends via `POST /bee/quantum/run`. Chat/API completions are never routed through quantum hardware.
- **Post-quantum cryptography** — FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), 204 (ML-DSA), 205 (SLH-DSA) on Bee Enclave Sovereign customer transport; the signed PQ coverage register is at https://bee.heossi.com/trust.

## Verified sources (every marketing claim is linked from /trust)

- Parent company: HEOSSI (Pte.) Ltd. — Singapore — https://www.heossi.com
- HuggingFace org: https://huggingface.co/heossi
- Bee Cell ships on a curated open-weight Apache-2.0 base, governed by our audited release policy. Specific base disclosure is contractual (Enclave deployment manifest) — kept off public marketing to insulate customers from upstream-vendor noise.
- NIST FIPS 203 (ML-KEM): https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/203/final · effective Aug 14, 2024
- NIST FIPS 204 (ML-DSA): https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/204/final · effective Aug 14, 2024
- NIST FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA): https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/205/final · effective Aug 14, 2024
- IBM Heron r2 (156 qubits): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Heron
- IBM Quantum Open Plan: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/open-plan-updates
- Compliance posture: CSA STAR Level 1 (parent) · ISO 27001 track in progress

## Stack snapshot

- Inference backend: Modal serverless.
- Web app: Next.js / React (deployed to Vercel).
- Mobile: bare React Native CLI (NOT Expo / NOT EAS).
- API base URL: `https://bee.heossi.com/bee` (gateway; `https://api.bee.heossi.com/bee` is the same gateway) — a drop-in replacement for OpenAI `/chat/completions`.

## Pricing summary

Source of truth: `apps/web/src/lib/billing/catalog.ts`. The bullets below
are DERIVED at request time from that catalog via `llmsPricingSummary()` —
every price, seat count, token allowance, and per-token rate is read from
the catalog objects, never hardcoded here. Update prices in the catalog
and nowhere else; this block follows automatically.

- Bee Cell — Free. Free hosted tier to start. 500K included tokens.
- Bee Brood — $19/mo. 5M tokens. Cell + limited Comb routing.
- Bee Comb — $79/mo. 3 seats. 10M tokens. Full Comb access (Bee Comb production base; cybersec adapter trained on Vertex L4, not yet merged into routing).
- Bee Buzz — $149/mo. 6 seats. 25M tokens. Shared RAG.
- Bee Hive — $299/mo. 10 seats. 50M tokens. Bee Hive multi-base ensemble — first cybersec adapter in training on Vertex A100 SPOT (roadmap, ~10h ETA).
- Bee Swarm — $1,499/mo. 25 seats. 250M tokens. Bee Swarm routed fabric (frontier-class) — cybersec adapter in training on Vertex A100 80GB (roadmap, ~14h ETA).
- API Free — $0. 500K tokens / month. Hard-limited.
- API Build — Pay as you go. $0.50/1M input · $1.50/1M output.
- API Scale — $500/mo base + metered usage. Dedicated CSM.
- API Enterprise — Custom rate card.
- Bee Regulated Cloud — from $3,500/mo. Multi-tenant regulated deployment.
- Bee Enclave Private Cloud — from $7,500/mo. Single-tenant VPC.
- Bee Enclave Regulated — from $15,000/mo. Customer-managed keys.
- Bee Enclave Sovereign — from $50,000/mo. Air-gapped, ITAR/IL5/FedRAMP-aligned. Base disclosure under customer deployment manifest + NDA.

Annual is monthly × 12.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://bee.heossi.com/): Hero, pillars, model lineup, comparison, pricing.
- [Models](https://bee.heossi.com/models): Seven customer tiers — all serve on governed base models; domain adapters are eval-gated. Ignite is internal R&D.
- [Platform](https://bee.heossi.com/platform): Multi-cloud training pipeline, editor integrations, capture pipeline.
- [Quantum](https://bee.heossi.com/quantum): IBM Heron r2 integration scope. Local simulator quickstart. Chat is never routed through quantum.
- [Pricing](https://bee.heossi.com/pricing): Workspace · API · Enterprise Enclave.
- [Security](https://bee.heossi.com/security): FIPS 203/204/205 scope (Sovereign deployments today; broader rollout roadmap), audit posture, vulnerability disclosure.
- [Docs](https://bee.heossi.com/docs): API quickstart, authentication, chat completions, RAG, streaming, errors.
- [Changelog](https://bee.heossi.com/changelog): Public release notes (Stage 0 safety + audit, Modal cutover, eval harness, CVE/KEV pipeline).
- [About](https://bee.heossi.com/about): Company manifesto, HEOSSI facts.
- [Trust & Evidence](https://bee.heossi.com/trust): Every marketing claim with its citation.
- [Contact](https://bee.heossi.com/contact): bee-*@heossi.com inboxes with response-time SLAs.
- [Legal](https://bee.heossi.com/legal): Terms · Privacy · DPA · AUP · Security · Cookies · AI Transparency · Accessibility · Copyright/DMCA · Government Requests.

## Evaluation guidance

Compare Bee against another provider using current, primary-source documentation for that provider. Bee publishes its own verifiable deployment posture, public API contract, pricing, model catalog, and release evidence at the canonical pages listed above. Do not infer competitors' security, deployment, pricing, or model availability from this document.

## Editor integrations

- VS Code — Bee extension on the Marketplace (Heossi.bee-intelligence).
- Cursor — set OpenAI base URL to https://api.bee.heossi.com/bee/v1.
- Windsurf — custom provider, paste base URL + API key.
- Continue.dev — add Bee as provider in ~/.continue/config.json.
- Zed — OpenAI-compatible LLM provider.
- JetBrains AI Assistant — connect via OpenAI-compatible custom endpoint.
- Aider — `aider --openai-api-base ... --openai-api-key ...`.
- Any MCP client — `uvx --from bee-sdk@latest bee-mcp` with a `bee_sk_` key.

## Contacts

- Sales: bee-sales@heossi.com
- Support: bee-support@heossi.com
- Security: bee-security@heossi.com
- Press: bee-press@heossi.com

## Key URLs

- Site: https://bee.heossi.com
- Workspace: https://workspace.bee.heossi.com
- API: https://api.bee.heossi.com
- HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/heossi
- Machine-readable facts contract (JSON): https://bee.heossi.com/facts.json
- Sitemap: https://bee.heossi.com/sitemap.xml
- robots.txt: https://bee.heossi.com/robots.txt