Making Local AI
Easy for All
Products coming soon · both demos are live
Two words worth knowing.
- Local AI
- The model runs on your own computer instead of a company's server. What you type never leaves the machine, and it keeps answering with the wifi off.
- Open source AI
- The model's weights are published for anyone to download, inspect, and run. Once you have a copy, no one can retire it, throttle it, or change the terms on you.
Privacy, price, and control.
The same everyday work, with a different arrangement underneath.
Privacy
There is nothing to upload, so there is nothing to leak. Drafts, files, and questions stay on your machine. If a feature ever needs outside help, you see what would leave and decide.
The privacy casePrice
Base Drive is $19.99, once. No monthly bill, no token meter, no account to keep alive. It keeps working whether or not you keep paying.
What you getControl
You hold the model, so you decide when it changes. Nothing updates behind your back, and no version you rely on gets deprecated out from under you.
Why ownership mattersFive things we believe.
Local AI is still too niche and nerdy. We hope to make local AI easy for all.
Local, open, small models are good enough
Small models you can run yourself now answer 88.7% of everyday questions as well as the big ones do. What the small ones can do
Running models locally answers the data-center problem
Strained grids, water, rising bills: those are data-center problems, and they stop being yours at home. The energy case
Teaching everyone data privacy is a lost cause (sort of)
84% of AI users worry about what they paste in. 30% paste it anyway. That needs a better default, not a lecture. The privacy case
No one gets left behind in an AI-native world
Seven in ten Americans do not want a data center near them. Nobody should have to choose between AI and their principles. How people feel about AI
Open-source models are more than good enough
Open weights are more than good enough. Frontier models should be something you call on, not something you depend on. Chat with open models
Every number here is somebody else’s, sourced on our research page. Read the long version
Try an open model, then bring it home.
Chat free with 10 open-weight models in your browser, routed only to providers that keep no record of it. When you want that on your own laptop, Base Drive sets it up in minutes for $19.99.
Base Drive and Base Router are in development and not available to order. Prices, specifications, model lists, and dates on this page are current targets and may change before launch.
Base Router is in development: the same private AI on an always-on box for the whole home. See what we’re building