About
We are CIPHER TECH.
An Amsterdam-based infrastructure company building the boring, dependable layer under European AI: GPUs we operate, a gateway we run, and a bill you can read.
2026
Founded
Amsterdam, NL
EU
Regions only
no US failover
49
Models served
one endpoint
1
Team
engineering and support
Why we exist
Every European business deserves AI it can trust.
The Token Factory is our answer to a fragmented AI market. Model access should be as measurable and controllable as any other utility: pay for what you use, keep your data where it belongs, and switch providers without rewriting your application.
That means owning the parts that matter — the inference hardware, the routing layer, and the audit trail — instead of reselling someone else's region with a markup.
Europe does not need another wrapper around an American API. It needs capacity it can point at, contracts it can file, and a supplier that answers when the compliance questionnaire arrives.
“If we cannot say where the prompt went, we should not be selling the service.”
Principles
Sovereignty by design
EU data residency is the default, not a paid add-on or a regional checkbox.
Radical transparency
Published per-token prices, open standards, and numbers we can defend.
Engineering rigour
We operate the GPUs, the gateway, and the on-call rotation ourselves.
Customer proximity
Small enough that the person who built it answers your ticket.
Boring where it counts
No proprietary SDK, no lock-in format, no migration hostage.
Say what is not ready
If a feature is a preview, the page says so before you buy.
The stack
Four layers, one operator
| Layer | Responsibility | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Edge | TLS termination, rate limiting, request authentication | CIPHER |
| Gateway | Routing, caching, redaction, logging, budget enforcement | CIPHER or your VPC |
| Inference | Model weights on GPU capacity in EU data centres | CIPHER |
| Data | Prompts, logs, and keys — retention per contract | Your database or ours |
In a private deployment the gateway moves into your network; the edge and inference layers stay with us.
Why vertical integration matters here
How we work
- Every incident that touches a customer gets a written post-mortem, shared with them.
- The changelog is public and dated; model additions and price changes appear there first.
- Retention is a contract term, not a settings toggle buried in a console.
- No dark patterns: cancellation is a form, not a phone call.
Company
- Legal entity
- CIPHER TECH B.V.
- Registered office
- Tijnmuiden 59, 1046AK Amsterdam, Netherlands
- KvK number
- 42154105
- VAT (btw-id)
- Provided on invoice
We work with teams in fintech, healthcare, legal, and the public sector — the ones whose compliance officers ask where the prompt physically went. If that is you, the private hosting page is the shortest path to an answer.
We are not hiring through a portal. If you operate GPUs or write Go for a living and want to work on this, write to us directly and say what you would fix first.
Talk to the people who run it.
No sales engineering layer — you reach the team that operates the infrastructure.