Our take
Poolside is a boutique code-generation host that runs only its own Laguna family of models. It guarantees it will not train on prompts, but offers little verified corporate or compliance detail beyond that.
Use this for coding workloads where prompt confidentiality is critical, or for low-latency coding assistance where Laguna XS 2.1 is the fastest tracked offer. Pick it for budget-sensitive coding tasks — the entry tier is the cheapest in its own catalogue. Skip it if you need a broad model choice, verified compliance attestations, or predictable throughput across tiers.
- Strictest privacy stance on prompt data: explicitly does not train on prompts.
- Fastest throughput on the smallest variant — Laguna XS 2.1 at 126 tokens/sec, more than double the next tier up.
- Cheapest entry point in its own catalogue, roughly one-third below the next tier.
- Very narrow model catalogue — only four tracked offers, all from a single family with no third-party or downloadable options.
- Compliance and corporate transparency gaps: headquarters country, EU endpoint, SOC 2 and zero-retention all unverified in our data.
- Throughput degrades sharply on larger variants, and the highest tier's throughput is undisclosed entirely.
Point your tools here
We have not recorded what a router needs for Poolside yet — no base URL and no docs link on file. That is our gap, not a sign Poolside has no API; its own documentation is the place to look until we close it.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to Poolside through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 3 hours ago. For Poolside's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.