Sauna vs Cohere North
North runs behind your firewall. Sauna runs for your team.
North is built for enterprises that need agents inside their own secure perimeter. Sauna is a managed coworker for your team: it remembers your work, connects to your tools, and shows up on every surface, with nothing to deploy or operate.
Comparing Sauna and Cohere North? North is Cohere's secure enterprise agent platform that runs behind your firewall. Sauna is the managed coworker for your team — it remembers your work, connects to your tools, and acts across web, Slack, email, and iMessage with no ops.
North is Cohere's secure enterprise AI agent platform, built to run on-prem, in VPCs, or air-gapped so data stays behind the customer's firewall, aimed at regulated industries and governments. It reached general availability in 2025; Cohere raised at a roughly $7B valuation that year.
The difference: A private deployment you run, versus a managed coworker on every surface.
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Built around your work.
Zero ops
Nothing to deploy
Sauna runs as a managed service, so you use it instead of standing it up and operating it inside your own infrastructure.
Memory
It remembers your work
Your projects, people, and decisions, kept across sessions, on every surface your team uses.
Approval-gated
Acts with your okay
It reads only what you connect and acts only after you approve. Your workspace and its memory are yours, not training data.
In context
It knows your work, and acts on it.
Sauna remembers your projects and the people in them, connects to the tools your team runs, and finishes the task — across the web app, Slack, email, iMessage, and Superhuman.
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Questions, answered.
We need data behind our firewall. Is that Sauna or North?
If a private, on-prem, or air-gapped deployment is a hard requirement, North is built for exactly that. If you want a managed coworker with no infrastructure to run, that's Sauna — and it reads only what you connect, acting only after you approve.
Does Sauna require any deployment?
No. Sauna is managed in the cloud — sign in and start. There are no servers to stand up, patch, or keep running.
Is my data safe?
Sauna reads only what you connect, and acts only after you approve. Your workspace and its memory are yours, not training data.
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