Core42 Sovereign AI Cloud & Compass

Offering overview

Sovereignty is the organizing idea across this G42 subsidiary's portfolio. Its Sovereign AI Cloud provides full-stack inference and training capacity on a multi-accelerator fleet spanning NVIDIA, AMD, Cerebras and Qualcomm silicon, with GPU hourly rates advertised from $2.50 per H100 hour. A Sovereign Public Cloud layers UAE-specific security and residency controls onto Microsoft Azure through the Core42 Insight platform, and Signature Private Cloud places workloads in fully owned in-country facilities. Compass is the inference gateway: an OpenAI- and Azure-OpenAI-compatible API exposing more than fifty models from a dozen providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Cohere, DeepSeek, Qwen, xAI, MBZUAI and open-weight gpt-oss models, with role-based access, audit logs and usage governance. Government bodies, regulated enterprises and national AI programs that must keep data within UAE borders are the primary customers, though the company cites nine data centers and expansion into the United States and Europe. Published pricing is limited to GPU compute starting points; Compass inference is sold pay-as-you-go or on tokens-per-minute commitments through sales.

Technical specifications

Containers

Unknown

Kubernetes

Unknown

Root access

Unknown

API access

Unknown

Autoscaling

Unknown

Persistent processes

Unknown

AI capabilities

Model serving

gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral, Cohere, DeepSeek, Qwen, xAI Grok, MBZUAI, Stability AI

AI frameworks

Not stated

Inference endpoints

Unknown

Fine-tuning

Unknown

Vector database

Unknown

Model catalog

Unknown

Monitoring

Not stated

Evaluation

Not stated

Security & compliance

Geography

Provider headquarters are separate from offering infrastructure and availability.

Available plans

Pricing can change. Promotional prices are shown separately from standard prices.

Questions & answers

Who is Core42's sovereign cloud designed for?

Primary customers are government bodies, regulated enterprises and national AI programs that must keep data within UAE borders.

What cloud deployment options does Core42 offer?

Sovereign AI Cloud provides training and inference capacity. Sovereign Public Cloud adds UAE-specific security and residency controls to Microsoft Azure through Core42 Insight. Signature Private Cloud places workloads in fully owned in-country facilities.

What is the Compass API compatible with?

Compass provides an OpenAI- and Azure-OpenAI-compatible inference API exposing more than fifty models from a dozen providers.

What governance features does Compass include?

Compass includes role-based access, audit logs and usage governance.

Which accelerator vendors does Core42 use?

Core42's Sovereign AI Cloud uses a multi-accelerator fleet spanning NVIDIA, AMD, Cerebras and Qualcomm silicon.