The complimentary tier provides Cortex chat functionality without requiring any billing details, offering a seamless journey from AI experimentation to secure development and enterprise workflows.
The adoption of enterprise AI should not be hindered by procurement hurdles or complex platform choices. It ought to start with tangible value. Users should be able to freely request assistance from Cortex without any cost.”— Anoop Jaishankar
Pervaziv AI has announced the launch of a Free Tier for Cortex Enterprise AI, enabling developers and organizations to start using Cortex directly within Visual Studio Code more easily, without needing to share payment details.
This new no-cost option delivers basic Cortex chat capabilities in VS Code and is built on a straightforward concept: Enterprise AI should be simple to initiate, valuable from the very first use, and able to scale as an organization’s needs evolve.
Users can start by posing queries, deciphering code, tackling development challenges, and getting a feel for Cortex within the editor where their software work is already done. Teams that later require enhanced security, privacy, enterprise integrations, cloud connectivity, or more extensive controls can transition to Cortex Base, Premium, and Enterprise subscriptions as their demands increase.
This launch marks the next phase in Pervaziv AI’s overarching Cortex Enterprise AI strategy.
Recent updates introduced the Cortex AI Model Ensemble, which combines specialized intelligence for coding, security, privacy, prompt protection, analysis, safety, verification, and workflow coordination. Subsequently, Cortex Router was added as the eighth specialized model in the ensemble, providing intelligent coordination based on developer intent, task type, scope, risk, and the appropriate workflow.
The Free Tier advances the same strategy from a different angle: lowering the barrier to entry for this broader Enterprise AI platform.
## Enterprise AI Should Be Easy to Start
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AI is quickly becoming integral to how organizations design, build, comprehend, secure, and deliver software. Yet for many engineering leaders and development teams, a key question remains surprisingly practical: where should adoption begin?
Pervaziv AI holds that the answer should not force an organization to overhaul its development environment before it can assess whether AI delivers value.
Instead, teams should be able to start with a productive developer experience, evaluate how AI fits into daily tasks, build confidence, and then advance to more sophisticated capabilities when business needs justify them.
The Cortex Free Tier is constructed around this progression.
Developers can access basic Cortex chat in VS Code without entering payment information. The experience is intentionally focused on a common starting point for AI-assisted development: interacting with AI directly in the editor.
From there, organizations can grow into secure development, software security analysis, connected knowledge, enterprise applications, cloud environments, privacy protection, prompt security, and governance via the larger Cortex platform.
“Enterprise AI adoption should not begin with a procurement obstacle or a complicated platform decision,” stated Anoop Jaishankar, Founder and CEO of Pervaziv AI. “It should begin with value. A developer should be able to open the environment they already use, ask Cortex for help, understand what the experience can contribute, and decide where it belongs in their workflow.”
Jaishankar continued, “The larger opportunity comes after that first useful interaction. As AI becomes part of real engineering work, organizations need security, privacy, enterprise context, validation, integrations, permissions, and human oversight around it. The Free Tier creates an easier front door into that larger Cortex vision.”
## Built for the Way Modern Teams Work
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Modern software development does not stay confined to one application or one interface.
A developer might start in an editor, move to a browser for research or review, join an engineering conversation, examine data from another enterprise system, or make a decision away from a workstation.
Cortex is designed for that reality.
Users can leverage Cortex across VS Code, browser, and mobile experiences, ensuring AI assistance remains accessible as work shifts from editing to review, conversation, or decision-making on the move.
Behind that experience lies a platform with considerable depth.
Cortex brings together:
8 Custom AI Models
48 AI Agents
10 MCP Connections
to support a wide array of coding, security, analysis, and connected enterprise workflows.
The specialized model architecture is intended to apply different forms of intelligence to different types of tasks, rather than treating every development or security issue as identical.
The 48 AI Agents extend Cortex into specialized activities across development, security, analysis, and enterprise workflows, while MCP Connections offer another way to work with connected tools and context.
Together, these capabilities are designed to help organizations avoid assembling an increasingly fragmented collection of AI point solutions for individual tasks.
Cortex and related products are also offered through 11 marketplaces, giving organizations multiple avenues to discover and adopt the platform via channels they already use.
With 40+ customization options, teams can further tailor Cortex around the workflows, preferences, and controls that matter to their organization. This breadth is important because there is no single path to Enterprise AI adoption.
Some organizations begin with:
Developer productivity
Others prioritize:
Secure software development
Security teams may focus on:
Vulnerability analysis
Privacy
Threat modeling
Software scanning
Prompt protection
Larger enterprises may need AI to work across:
Repositories
Productivity platforms
Cloud environments
Business applications
Collaboration systems
Software delivery infrastructure
Cortex is designed to provide one platform across those scenarios while allowing organizations to expand adoption at their own pace.
## One Cortex Platform, Designed to Grow with Your Business
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Every Cortex subscription is part of the same Enterprise AI platform.
The difference is not a separate product. It is the depth of capability available as development, security, connected knowledge, and integration requirements grow.
The platform is offered through four subscription tiers: Free Tier, Base, Premium, and Enterprise.
This gives individuals a low friction entry point while providing teams and larger organizations a clear path to add security depth, connected knowledge, cloud capabilities, and enterprise integrations when they are ready.
Rather than asking organizations to determine their complete AI architecture before the first developer can experience Cortex, the subscription structure allows adoption to progress naturally.
Start with a useful developer experience.
Add secure development capabilities.
Connect the knowledge and collaboration systems surrounding engineering.
Extend AI into cloud, delivery, and business environments as organizational needs expand.
## Free Tier: Experience Cortex Where Developers Work
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For many developers, the editor is the most natural place to evaluate AI.
The Cortex Free Tier brings basic Cortex chat into VS Code so users can begin exploring AI assistance directly in the development environment.
Developers can:
Ask questions
Work through code understanding
Explore implementation topics
Become familiar with Cortex
without providing payment information and without the pressure associated with a short evaluation period.
The objective is straightforward: make it easier for someone to determine whether Cortex belongs in their development workflow.
For an engineering organization, this also creates a lower friction way to introduce Cortex internally. The Free Tier provides the entry point.
The broader Cortex platform provides the path forward.
Base: Establish a Secure AI Development Foundation
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As teams move beyond initial exploration, Cortex Base introduces capabilities that bring AI assisted development closer to everyday software security and engineering workflows.
Base includes file scanning and repository scanning, helping teams bring security analysis closer to development rather than treating it as a separate downstream activity.
Software Component Analysis, or SCA, helps organizations examine software dependencies and component related risk.
Base also adds connections with GitHub, Atlassian, and Slack, helping Cortex work alongside the systems engineering organizations already use to manage code, coordinate development, track work, and communicate.
Core privacy and prompt protection capabilities provide additional safeguards as AI becomes part of normal development activity.
Cortex Base brings AI coding assistance, software security, source code workflows, collaboration, privacy controls, and prompt protection into a more connected development environment.
Premium: Bring Deeper Security and Enterprise Knowledge Into the Workflow
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Cortex Premium builds on Base for organizations that want AI to participate in more security intensive and knowledge intensive work.
Premium adds AI Security Review, helping teams examine code, findings, and risk with greater depth.
Threat Model capabilities support earlier and more structured security thinking, giving teams another way to consider risks before they become implementation or operational problems.
Premium also includes Deep Privacy and Deep Prompt Guard for organizations that require stronger controls around sensitive context and potentially untrusted instructions.
These protections become increasingly important as AI receives information from a wider range of source files, repositories, documents, communications, connected applications, and enterprise environments.
Premium also extends Cortex through Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace connections.
Software development frequently depends on information that exists beyond source code.
Technical decisions may be discussed across teams.
Business context may be distributed across documents and productivity platforms.
Bringing appropriate enterprise knowledge closer to the development workflow can help teams spend less time moving manually between disconnected systems and more time acting on the context surrounding the work.
Premium is designed for organizations ready to move beyond AI assistance toward a deeper combination of development intelligence, security intelligence, privacy aware controls, and connected enterprise knowledge.
Enterprise: Connect AI Across the Systems That Run the Business
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Cortex Enterprise extends the platform into a broader operational environment.
It includes the capabilities of Premium while adding connections across cloud, development, delivery, and business systems including AWS, Azure, Azure DevOps, Salesforce, and Google Cloud capabilities.
This reflects a central part of Pervaziv AI’s Enterprise AI strategy.
Modern engineering teams work across:
Repositories
Collaboration systems
Cloud infrastructure
Application delivery platforms
Security processes
Productivity environments
Customer systems
Operational tooling
AI becomes more useful to an organization when it can help people work across those boundaries while remaining subject to appropriate security, privacy, permissions, validation, and governance.
For organizations, the goal is therefore not simply a more capable coding assistant.
It is a more connected AI environment capable of supporting the systems and workflows involved in building, securing, operating, and delivering software.
Pervaziv AI’s roadmap for the Enterprise platform also includes continued work across:
Multi cloud workflows
Application security posture management
AI first machine learning scanning
Team capabilities
Retrieval augmented generation improvements
Additional enterprise integrations
## From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Value
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The business opportunity around AI is not simply to add another chat interface.
It is to help people make better decisions and move work forward across the software lifecycle without separating development velocity from security, enterprise context, and operational requirements.
That is why Cortex is designed around a progression that can make sense for both developers and organizational leaders.
The Free Tier gives developers a low friction way to experience basic Cortex chat in VS Code.
Base establishes a stronger secure AI development foundation through file and repository scanning, Software Component Analysis, developer integrations, and core protections.
Premium adds deeper security analysis, threat modeling, privacy capabilities, prompt protection, and connected enterprise knowledge.
Enterprise extends Cortex across cloud, delivery, and business systems used throughout larger organizations.
A developer can begin by evaluating whether Cortex improves everyday work.
An engineering leader can consider how AI can increase productivity while supporting consistent secure development practices.
A security leader can examine software scanning, AI Security Review, Threat Model capabilities, privacy controls, and prompt protection.
An enterprise technology leader can evaluate how AI operates across cloud environments, business applications, development systems, organizational knowledge, and governance.
Cortex provides a path across those stages without requiring every organization to begin at the same level.
Specialized Intelligence Behind a Simpler Experience
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Pervaziv AI introduced the Cortex AI Model Ensemble around the principle that software development and enterprise workflows should not be treated as one undifferentiated AI task.
The architecture has since expanded to eight specialized Custom AI Models.
Those models contribute intelligence across:
Secure AI behavior
Privacy protection
Prompt protection
Structured security analysis
Safety aware decision making
Broad coding assistance
Code and patch verification
Intelligent routing
The specialized model architecture works alongside Cortex's broader network of AI Agents and connected systems.
This supports an important design principle behind Cortex: the user experience can remain straightforward even as the intelligence behind it becomes increasingly specialized.
A developer should not need to understand every model boundary before asking a question.
Instead, Cortex can coordinate different forms of intelligence as part of the broader platform and apply them according to the work being requested.
## An Enterprise AI Control Layer, Not Just Another Chat
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Pervaziv AI’s broader vision for Cortex extends beyond conversational AI.
The company is developing Cortex as an Enterprise AI Control Layer for software development and connected engineering workflows.
As organizations give AI greater access to code, enterprise information, repositories, cloud environments, and software delivery processes, model capability represents only one part of the architecture.
The Cortex AI Model Ensemble provides specialized intelligence across parts of that environment.
AI Agents expand specialized workflows. MCP Connections and enterprise integrations bring relevant systems and context closer to the work. Security, privacy, validation, customization, and organizational controls help surround that intelligence as adoption grows.
“The future of Enterprise AI is not about putting the biggest possible model behind every interaction,” Jaishankar said. “It is about making intelligence useful at the point where work happens, then surrounding that intelligence with the security, context, controls, validation, and human judgment required as the work becomes more consequential.”
He added, “That is why the Free Tier matters strategically. We are making the first Cortex experience simpler at the same time that the platform behind it is becoming more capable. Start with a developer question in VS Code. When the organization is ready, Cortex can grow into security, enterprise knowledge, cloud systems, business platforms, and governed AI workflows. The entry point should be easy. The architecture behind it should be ready for what comes next.”
## Designed for Incremental Enterprise Adoption
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For organizations evaluating AI, incremental adoption can provide an important advantage.
Teams can begin with a defined use case, observe how developers interact with AI, determine where it creates measurable value, and expand based on actual requirements.
That approach can also make it easier for engineering, security, IT, and business stakeholders to evaluate AI from their respective perspectives.
Developers can focus on usefulness. Security teams can examine privacy, software risk, AI security, prompt protection, and validation. Enterprise technology leaders can consider integrations, cloud infrastructure, customization, governance, and broader organizational deployment.
Rather than requiring all of those decisions before the first developer interaction, the Cortex subscription structure gives organizations a more practical sequence.
Start with the development experience. Add secure development capabilities. Connect enterprise knowledge. Apply broader controls as adoption and organizational impact grow.
## Start Where You Are. Scale When You Are Ready
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With the introduction of the Cortex Free Tier, Pervaziv AI is making its Enterprise AI platform easier for developers and organizations to experience without changing the larger direction of Cortex.
The same platform can begin with basic AI chat in VS Code and expand into secure development, AI Security Review, Threat Modeling, privacy and prompt protection, enterprise productivity systems, source code and collaboration platforms, cloud environments, business systems, and broader governed AI workflows.
Across that platform, Cortex brings together 8 Custom AI Models, 48 AI Agents, 10 MCP Connections, availability through 11 marketplaces, and 40+ customization options to support a broad range of development, security, analysis, and connected enterprise workflows.
The platform behind it can be designed for security, scale, integration, customization, and organizational control.
Developers and organizations can start with the Cortex Free Tier with no payment information required or explore the Base, Premium, and Enterprise subscriptions at https://pervaziv.com/pricing.
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