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title: Blueprint Cloud vs. On-Premise
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createdAt: 2026-04-17T18:28:53.833Z
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Blueprint is available as a cloud-hosted service managed by Blueprint, or as an on-premise installation in your own environment. The right choice depends on your organization's infrastructure requirements, IT capacity, and security policies.



|                                | **Blueprint Cloud**                                                                                                                                                      | **On-Premise**                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Provisioning**               | ✅ Minutes. Blueprint provides a URL and admin credentials immediately.                                                                                                   | ⚠️ Weeks to months of IT coordination, server procurement, and approvals required before Blueprint is accessible.                          |
| **Updates**                    | ✅ Automatic with every release (\~every 6 weeks). No action required.                                                                                                    | ⚠️ Your IT team must manually schedule, download, install, and validate every release.                                                     |
| **Application Maintenance**    | ✅ Blueprint has direct access for rapid diagnosis and remediation. Lower downtime, higher availability.                                                                  | ⚠️ Remote diagnosis requires on-site coordination to collect logs. Expect longer resolution times.                                         |
| **Infrastructure Maintenance** | ✅ Blueprint manages redundant, monitored infrastructure including security patching.                                                                                     | ⚠️ Your IT team owns all deployment, uptime, and security patching responsibilities.                                                       |
| **Troubleshooting**            | ✅ Shared infrastructure makes diagnosis consistent and fast.                                                                                                             | ⚠️ Unique environments increase complexity and extend time to resolution.                                                                  |
| **Early Access**               | ✅ Daily pre-release builds can be made available for early feature access.                                                                                               | ❌ Pre-release builds are not available to install in on-premise environments.                                                              |
| **Security**                   | ✅ SOC II / ISO 27001 compliant. Geographically distributed data centers. Dedicated per-customer database with data encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2) and at rest (AES-256). | ⚠️ Security posture depends on your organization's existing policies and procedures. Blueprint operates within your defined IT boundaries. |

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# Which is right for you?

## ☁️ Choose Blueprint Cloud if...

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your organization wants the fastest time to value, minimal IT overhead, and automatic updates managed by Blueprint.
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## 🏢 Choose On-Premise if...

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 your organization has strict data residency requirements, air-gapped environments, or internal policies that require all software to run within your own infrastructure.
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