Perimeters
Choose where your data may go when a Job runs, and the quality of each Operation.
You never pick a model. Each Job declares a Perimeter, each Operation an Operation Tier, and the platform runs Parsing and Operations on the models of that Perimeter.
🛡️ Local and External
external(default): third-party providers are allowed (e.g. Mistral for OCR and language models).local: your documents never leave Axelered's infrastructure.
A Summarization that keeps the data local:
{
"length": "short",
"parsing": { "tier": "accurate" },
"perimeter": "local"
}The Perimeter of an Operation holds for its Parsing and for its language model.
🎯 Operation Tiers
Each Operation chooses its quality with tier. The Perimeter decides which language model serves each tier.
| Tier | Credits | Description |
|---|---|---|
fast | 1 | The default: quick and cheap, good for most documents. |
accurate | 3 | A stronger language model, for long or demanding documents. |
The tier is set per Operation, independently of its Parsing Tier. An Extraction:
{
"outputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "total": { "type": "number" } } },
"tier": "accurate",
"parsing": { "tier": "fast" }
}🔒 Compliance Guard
If your organization requires that data never leaves Axelered's infrastructure, ask us to enable the Compliance Guard on your workspace. The workspace then shows allowExternal: false, and every Job must declare "perimeter": "local": a Job with external, or without perimeter (the default is external), is rejected at submit with 403 perimeter_not_allowed, before anything is uploaded or created.
The guard is set by Axelered, by agreement with you: API keys can read it but not change it. It is checked when a Job is submitted, so Jobs already queued when it is enabled still run.
🚦 Availability
A Perimeter is used only for what it has: accurate Parsing needs its OCR backend, Operations need its language model for their tier. When the Perimeter of a Job cannot run it, the Job is rejected at submit with 503 perimeter_unavailable. There is no fallback to the other Perimeter, nor from accurate to fast.