Procurement

Available AI Products

Within the Academic Cloud

The Academic Cloud is a modular service portal available nationwide for universities, colleges, and research institutions. As a shared platform, it enables the provision, development, and use of digital services across institutional boundaries and supports cross-institutional collaboration.

Within the Academic Cloud, our AI service is available in two product packages, each offering two different pricing models. Additionally, a free version of “Chat AI” is available for testing and evaluation purposes. Both product packages are also available as “API-only” variants for users seeking API access only. The two product packages are:

• Chat AI with all our tools (Chat AI service, Arcana/RAG, CoCo AI, Image AI, Voice AI, Protein AI) including API access to our self-hosted open-weight models.

  • Chat AI Free - Free access for testing and evaluation purposes.
  • Chat AI Prepaid
  • Chat AI Flexible

• Chat AI External Models for integrating commercial frontier models from external cloud providers into our web tools, as well as API access to these models.

  • Chat AI External Prepaid
  • Chat AI External Flexible

Except for the Free variant, both products are available as either Prepaid or Flexible pricing models. The Prepaid model is a credit-based system with a fixed budget, while the Flexible model is a pay-as-you-go system with a monthly billing cycle.

Request

Requirements

There are multiple access points to our AI services. Generally, access is provided through our web frontend within the Academic Cloud. At minimum, your institution’s administrator needs an account within the Academic Cloud – the Academic ID.
A video tutorial on creating an Academic ID is available on the kisski website.
To inquire whether your institution can gain access to the Academic Cloud, please contact the Academic Cloud website here.

Request Content

Please include the following information in your request:

• Name and address of your institution
• Access point (see below)
• Contact person and contact details at your institution
• Are you already a customer of the Academic Cloud?
• If you are a new customer: Does your institution have an Identity Provider? If so, what type?
• Which services are you requesting and with what specifications
  Details

  Example:
  - Chat AI Prepaid in category AC3.1 with full access
  - Chat AI External Flexible with full access, soft limit 4,000 € monthly, hard limit 5,000 € monthly
  

• How many authorized accounts does your institution require at maximum?
• What special considerations are important for your institution?
• What is your institution’s VAT ID?

Access Point via Academic Cloud

Please send your request to verkauf@gwdg.de or support@gwdg.de.

Access Point via DFN

If you wish to access our AI services through our partnership with DFN, you must additionally sign the appropriate contracts between you, GWDG, and DFN. Please contact verkauf@gwdg.de and include this information in your request. We will then provide you with the necessary documents and instructions for signing the contracts.

Access Point via KI:Connect

The standard approach for KI:Connect is using open-weight models via API endpoint.
Legally, there is NO requirement to sign an AVV with us, but it is useful if someone accidentally enters personal data in accordance with GDPR.
Institutions using external models via API under our KI:Connect partnership require an additional API key. Please contact kisski-support@gwdg.de for this.