Compass Cloud

Developers can use it to add governed enterprise search and retrieval to RAG and agentic applications without operating the retrieval stack themselves.

Availability

Private beta; request access

Pricing model

Not established

Deployment

Managed cloud offering; self-hosted deployments remain available for Compass

Privacy

Multi-tenant access control and document-level permissions during retrieval; retention policies expire content automatically

Licence

Not established

• Compass Cloud is a managed search and retrieval platform. ^[1]

  We’re also recruiting private beta partners for Compass Cloud , our managed search and retrieval platform.

• Compass Cloud is entering private beta with a limited number of enterprise teams. ^[2]

  Now, Compass is entering private beta as a managed offering - Compass Cloud .

• Interested teams can request access. ^{[1] [2]}

  Teams can access a single interface instead of integrating and operating separate services.

• Cohere manages the full pipeline and model inference for Compass Cloud. ^[2]

  It lets Cohere manage the full pipeline and model inference, so that our customers can focus even more on building.

• Compass combines document processing with semantic, sparse, and keyword search and reranking. ^[2]

  Compass generates dense and sparse representations together, so search can match both semantic intent and domain-specific language across text and multimodal content.

• Compass enforces multi-tenant access control and document-level permissions during retrieval. ^[2]

  Govern: Enforce multi-tenant access control and document-level permissions during retrieval, so applications don’t have to filter results themselves.

• Compass supports access through APIs and a dedicated MCP server. ^[2]

  Instead of assembling and operating the stack themselves, teams access Compass through its APIs, MCP server, or Python SDK to shape their desired end user experience.

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