AppXen AI Chat
A private, multi-user AI chat workspace that runs entirely in your own AWS account and talks to models through Amazon Bedrock. Production-hardened with automatic HTTPS, MongoDB persistence, and full-text search. Your conversations stay in your account — no per-seat fees, no GPU to run.
Coming soon to AWS MarketplaceWant early access? Email support@appxen.ai.
What's included
Pricing
$0.059/hr (≈ $43/mo software) plus Amazon Bedrock usage, billed through AWS — you pay EC2 separately and keep full control of the instance
Recommended instance
t3.medium or larger — no GPU needed, inference runs on Amazon Bedrock
Production stack
Multi-user AI chat with conversation history and search behind automatic TLS; Amazon Bedrock via an instance role (keyless); MongoDB + Meilisearch; UFW firewall and unattended security updates on a hardened Ubuntu 24.04 base
Per-seat AI vs self-hosted: the real cost
Pricing verified June 2026 against openai.com, anthropic.com, and AWS us-east-1 rates.
Hosted AI chat bills per seat, every month, whether a seat is used or idle. The appliance is flat infrastructure plus metered Amazon Bedrock usage — you pay for tokens you actually use, across unlimited users, in your own account.
| Option | Price | Billing model | Data lives in |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT Business | $25/user/mo ($20 annual) | Per user | OpenAI |
| ChatGPT Enterprise | ~$60/user/mo (150 seat min) | Per user | OpenAI |
| Claude Team | $25/seat/mo ($20 annual, 5 min) | Per seat | Anthropic |
| AppXen AI Chat appliance | ~$75/mo + Bedrock usage | Flat · unlimited users | Your AWS account |
Appliance all-in = $0.059/hr software (≈ $43/mo) + a t3.medium (≈ $30/mo) + EBS, plus your Amazon Bedrock token usage. Unlimited users; nothing leaves your account.
Cost scenarios
Small team · light, even usage
A per-seat plan can be simpler and cheaper at a handful of heavy daily users. The appliance pulls ahead as the team grows or usage is uneven (you don't pay for idle seats).
Growing team · 25 users
ChatGPT Business or Claude Team run $500–625/mo for 25 seats. The appliance is ~$75/mo flat plus your Bedrock token usage. Savings are typically $4,000–6,000/yr, depending on how much you actually generate.
Data-sensitive team
Conversations — and, if you enable the optional AppXen RAG connector, your documents — stay in your own AWS account and region.
When a per-seat plan is the better choice
Pick a hosted plan if you want the vendor's exact frontier models and polished features out of the box, minimal administration, and you'd rather not manage an instance or enable Amazon Bedrock model access. The appliance wins on cost at team scale, on uneven usage, and when your chat data must stay in your account.
Getting started
Launch with the included CloudFormation template (it attaches a Bedrock IAM role), enable Anthropic Claude model access in your Bedrock console once, wait ~3 min, then browse https://<public-ip>/ and create your account.
Questions? Email support@appxen.ai.