Civo Limited, a UK cloud company, has launched RelaxAI, a sovereign LLM inference API that keeps all data within UK borders. Pricing starts at £0.10 per million input tokens, which works out to roughly 95% less than comparable US-hosted providers for the same token volume.

What Happened

RelaxAI provides RESTful access to large language models with full OpenAI API compatibility, meaning any workflow built on the OpenAI SDK can switch to RelaxAI by changing one endpoint URL. The service is powered by Meta's latest Llama model, fine-tuned on UK-specific use cases by the Civo team.

The free tier allows 20 interactions per day and includes API access, document upload, and web search. The Plus plan at £10 per user per month adds unlimited interactions and granular privacy controls. API token pricing is £0.10 per million input tokens and £0.60 per million output tokens.

Why It Matters for Creators

For UK and EU creative studios, data sovereignty has become a compliance requirement. Work processed through US-hosted APIs may conflict with client contracts that specify UK GDPR data residency obligations. Most major LLM providers run their inference in US data centres, which creates legal risk when processing client scripts, design briefs, or voice copy that contains personal or commercially sensitive content.

RelaxAI holds ISO 27001, G-Cloud, Cyber Essentials, and SOC 2 certifications, which means it can sign data processing agreements that satisfy UK data protection requirements.

Key Details

  • API pricing: £0.10 per million input tokens, £0.60 per million output tokens
  • Model: Meta's latest Llama, fine-tuned by Civo
  • Data location: 100% UK data centres, subject only to UK law
  • Certifications: ISO 27001, G-Cloud, CCSS, Cyber Essentials, SOC 2
  • Compatibility: Drop-in OpenAI API replacement, with Python, TypeScript, and Go SDKs
  • Compare: Anthropic's API starts at $3 per million input tokens for Claude 3.5 Sonnet, roughly 23x the RelaxAI input rate at current exchange rates

What to Do Next

If you run client AI pipelines and need GDPR-compliant data processing, test RelaxAI against your specific prompts at relax.ai/pricing. The free tier covers 20 daily API calls without a credit card. Since the model is Llama rather than GPT-4 or Claude, benchmark on your actual use cases before switching production workloads.

Creator Outcome: UK studio owners running AI workflows for client work can replace US-hosted API calls with RelaxAI at a fraction of the cost and with full UK data residency. The OpenAI SDK compatibility means migration is a single line of code.