SocleAI&OVHcloud
OVHcloud provides European sovereign cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS, GPUs, dedicated servers, AI Endpoints), while Socle AI provides the ready-to-use AI application software platform: interface, autonomous agents, hybrid RAG, visual workflows and governance.
THE INFRASTRUCTURE
OVHcloud
European sovereign cloud infrastructure
OUR APPROACH
Socle AI
AI application software platform
OVHcloud provides the raw power and the French hardware; Socle AI provides the intelligence suite and the business interfaces. Together, a 100% French stack that is operational immediately.
GOOD TO KNOW
Socle AI deploys via Docker directly on your OVHcloud servers or GPU instances: you get value from the infrastructure you already have, without starting over.
The line-by-line comparison
| CRITERION | OVHCLOUD | SOCLE AI |
|---|---|---|
| Layer covered | Infrastructure (GPU, servers, endpoints) | Business application |
| Business interface | Cloud console | Chat, agents, dashboards |
| Visual workflows | No | Drag-and-drop studio |
| Hybrid RAG | To be built | Native with document reranking |
| Multi-agent orchestration | To be built | Native (A2A protocol) |
| Multimodality | Model inference | Transcription, TTS, vision built in |
| What gets measured | Compute, GPU, bandwidth | Adoption, task success, feedback |
Why OVHcloud alone is not enough
An infrastructure provider, not a business software vendor
OVHcloud offers GPU instances, AI Endpoints (model inference) and managed databases, but no graphical interface (chat, dashboard) for non-technical business teams.
No orchestration or advanced AI building blocks
No visual workflow builder, no dynamic multi-agent orchestration (A2A protocol), no hybrid RAG manager with document reranking, and no integrated multimodal suite (transcription with diarization, TTS, vision).
Development cost and lead time
Going through the inference APIs or renting GPUs at OVHcloud leaves you with a raw API. Your teams still have to build the application, the interface, contextual memory, access rights and governance.
Governance at the infrastructure level
OVHcloud measures compute, GPU and bandwidth consumption. Measuring adoption by your staff, AI task success rates or collecting feedback loops belongs to another layer.
The winning combination: Socle AI on OVHcloud
A 100% France and Europe stack
Deploying Socle AI (SaaS or on-premise via Docker) on OVHcloud infrastructure (SecNumCloud, HDS) gives you total immunity to extraterritorial law (Cloud Act), with no compromise on user experience.
A turnkey platform rather than a raw API
A complete chat interface, agent creation modules, a drag-and-drop workflow studio, business connectors (Slack, CRM, databases) and RAG document management from day one.
Multi-agent orchestration and model agnosticism
A native multi-agent engine (A2A protocol) and full OpenAI API compatibility (base_url): you orchestrate any open-source model (Mistral, Llama, Qwen) hosted on OVHcloud without changing your code.
Governance, compliance and feedback loops
Dashboards tracking usage per member, a complete audit log of the decisions taken by agents, and measurement of task success across the organisation.
Support and expertise (7 to 8 years)
A proven methodology to go from framing to production on critical use cases: banking, defence, healthcare.
Key questions you should be asking!
OVHcloud gives you GPU servers or AI Endpoints, but which team is going to code the interface, the document RAG and the agent orchestrator for your staff?
How do you plan to measure AI task success rates and user adoption from a plain cloud billing dashboard?
Did you know the Socle AI platform deploys directly on your OVHcloud servers or GPU instances, combining excellent French infrastructure with a solution that is operational in minutes?
The questions we get most often
OBJECTION
« We already have a hosting contract or credits at OVHcloud. »
OUR ANSWER
That is good news: Socle AI is fully compatible with OVHcloud. You can deploy the platform on-premise (Docker) directly on your servers. You get value from your sovereign infrastructure while giving your teams ready-to-use business tools.
OBJECTION
« OVHcloud already offers AI Endpoints to use AI models. »
OUR ANSWER
AI Endpoints are raw APIs aimed at developers. They provide no chat interface, no RAG document base manager, no visual workflows and no governance system. Socle AI brings that application layer, which is what makes AI usable by your business teams.
OBJECTION
« Going direct with OVHcloud saves us a software licence. »
OUR ANSWER
Infrastructure is cheaper up front, but the total cost of ownership climbs fast once you have to pay a dev team for 6 to 12 months to build and maintain the application around it. Socle AI saves you those months of R&D while de-risking your roadmap.
Want to compare on your own use case?
Try the platform, or talk it through with someone who has already deployed this kind of project.
