data residency

OpenAI's Ultrafast tier runs GPT-6 Astra at $60 input and $300 output per million tokens, 6x Standard, on US or global processing only. It ships off for Enterprise; turn it on per named user with a spend limit.

ChatGPT Space adds shared pages to Business and Enterprise seats at no extra cost. Removing a page invite leaves inherited access in place, summaries expose restricted files, and reviews report no export or version history yet.

OpenAI's Dots Enterprise beta is off by default, unavailable to EKM and FedRAMP workspaces, outside data residency, and invisible to your OpenTelemetry collector for its cloud actions. Here is what to decide before users ask.

Qwen-Audio 3.1 bills speech recognition in tokens: at 25 tokens per audio second it works out to about $0.02 an hour in Singapore, against $0.15-$0.26 at AssemblyAI and Deepgram. The catches are a five-minute request cap, per-channel billing and a residency decision.

Alianza bought Skribby, the meeting-bot API behind 200+ notetaker, sales-intelligence and other meeting apps. Its terms allow assignment at will, its DPA gives no remedy on objection, and five of 13 transcription sub-processors are US-only.

Mistral's €3 billion Series D moved its lead investor to Samsung Electronics without changing one customer contract. The same announcement publishes a four-part sovereignty definition that maps to clauses you can actually test — and the European Commission's own reference rubric weights ownership at 15%.

At two million pages a month, Amazon Textract's Forms + Tables + Queries bundle bills $125,000 and a Gemini Flash-Lite schema prompt bills $3,155. The gap is a pricing structure, not a technology gap — buy OCR and field extraction separately.

An independent audit of SystemLanguageModel.default — the ~3B on-device model Apple hands developers — found its self-reported confidence separates right from wrong at AUROC 0.47, below a coin flip, while it confabulated on 69.1% of false-premise questions and refused 18.4% of benign summarization requests. A k=5 consistency wrapper fixes it, at 28.2% coverage on factual QA.

Self-hosting 50 million vectors costs about $1,533/month in reserved compute and roughly $1,800/month in the engineer who runs it. The right reasons to leave a managed vector database are residency, licence and re-pricing risk — not the invoice.

Mistral's EU endpoint reached GA at a 10% upcharge, but its own docs say Agents, Batch and the Files API don't run there — and the 99.9% SLA is still in public preview. Price a multi-year European Compute Unit commitment against what ships today.

Seven routes off OpenAI, priced and deployment-matched on 12 August 2026. Residency is already solved almost everywhere — only Mistral, Cohere private deployment and self-hosted open weights clear a jurisdiction rule.

DeepSeek warned of a significant API price rise with no number and no date. Because the weights are MIT-licensed, the ceiling is already public: independent hosts serving the identical model charge 3-4x on posted rates and 40x on cache hits.