# Polarise Rise: Pricing, Features and Drive API Availability

Polarise's European AI cloud now includes a ready-to-use team workspace, while its developer API still has a different access path.

By Paras Madan | 2026-10-23


Polarise launched its AI Cloud on October 22 with Rise, an enterprise AI chat workspace available to teams, and Drive, a managed model API in controlled rollout. Rise starts at €20 per seat per month excluding VAT. The distinction is simple: employees get a product, while developers apply for API access.

The [GTC Berlin announcement](https://via.tt.se/pressmeddelande/4610810/polarise-launches-sovereign-ai-cloud-at-nvidia-gtc-berlin-delivering-enterprise-ai-from-data-center-to-application?lang=en&publisherId=3194838) brings those offerings together on Polarise's European infrastructure. It does not mean every part of the platform is generally available or that teams can replace an existing AI application without evaluating it.

## Polarise Rise pricing

The [Rise product page](https://polarise.eu/rise) lists three business plans. Prices are per seat per month, excluding VAT, and organizations can mix plans.

| Plan | Monthly price | AI usage allowance | Storage per seat |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Team | €20 | Standard | 2 GB |
| Business | €40 | 2.5 times Team | 6 GB |
| Enterprise | €200 | 16 times Team | 25 GB |

The plans list the same core collaboration features. Higher prices primarily increase the displayed usage and storage allowances. The page does not translate “standard” usage into a fixed number of tokens or completed tasks.

That makes the first evaluation a usage question. A team asking short questions about a few documents may have a very different workload from an analyst repeatedly searching a large collection. The subscription price alone cannot tell either team how much work it will finish before reaching a limit.

## What Rise does

Rise combines personal chats with shared workspaces, document search and web search with sources. Uploaded files are indexed for retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, so answers can cite the relevant source material rather than rely only on model memory.

Administration follows a company-to-workspace-to-user hierarchy. Lower levels can narrow the settings permitted above them. Shared prompt and file libraries give teams reusable material.

For example, a support team could work from the same product documentation rather than repeatedly attaching separate copies. The important evaluation would be whether answers retrieve the right version and whether each employee can access only the material they should see. A citation is useful evidence to inspect, not proof that the answer is correct.

## Drive API pricing and access

[Polarise Drive](https://polarise.eu/ai-cloud/token-studio) provides OpenAI-compatible managed inference with consumption-based pricing. Its current model listing includes these text-model rates per million tokens:

| Model | Input | Output | Cached input |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GLM-5.3 | €1.21 | €3.80 | €0.22 |
| Nemotron-3-Ultra | €0.52 | €2.07 | €0.10 |
| Kolibri-1 | €0.10 | €0.50 | €0.10 |

**Drive remains an application-based controlled rollout.** Published rates do not establish immediate access for every developer. Its page currently directs prospective users to request early access.

OpenAI compatibility can reduce integration work, but it does not make model behavior interchangeable. A migration still needs checks for output quality, latency, error handling and the specific request features an application depends on.

Drive also existed before this announcement: Polarise described it in an [August 24 product post](https://polarise.eu/blog/polarise-drive). October's event is the broader AI Cloud launch with Rise, rather than the first appearance of the inference service.

## What is available, and what remains a roadmap

The launch describes an Agentic Engine and MCP support as future features. Teams should not plan around those capabilities as if they shipped alongside Rise.

Polarise's product pages also distinguish existing certifications from work in progress. BSI C5 and SOC 2 Type I and Type II are listed as in preparation. They should not be represented as completed attestations.

The company markets the platform around European operation and data control. That positioning is relevant to procurement, but it is not a complete assessment of a customer's obligations, contracts or data flows. Those need their own review.

## The practical decision for a team

Rise and Drive address different kinds of work. Rise can remove the need to build an internal chat interface; Drive leaves application behavior and integration with the developer. Choosing between them starts with deciding which work the team wants the provider to own.

The useful next test is a small set of real tasks with an agreed quality threshold and a measured cost. Infrastructure location is one important requirement. The product still has to retrieve the right information and complete the work reliably enough to earn its place in the workflow.

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