Cloud or local?

With cybercrime on the rise and data security more critical than ever, businesses must carefully evaluate their storage and processing strategies. Hosting Docflow AI on-premise requires a one-time hardware investment of approximately £12,000, ensuring full control within your own infrastructure. In contrast, a cloud-based solution would cost around £44,000 over five years—this excludes storage fees which will easily add £10k to this figure over 5 years— (based on the current March 2025 running costs of an RTX 6000 Ada / L40S GPU server from Aime.info). While the cloud offers scalability and remote access, the long-term costs and potential security risks raise an important question: which solution is right for your business?