> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.neum.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Local vs Cloud

> Comparing local vs cloud capabilities for Neum AI

## Picking the right enviornment

Neum AI offers both local and cloud capabilities. Local development is a great starting place to test out the different Neum AI connectors and piece together your first flows. You can get a sense of the pre-processing options offered and run small to medium size workloads right on your machine. The cloud enviorment come into play as you look to scale your solution to a larger dataset, as well as look for production-ready features like scheduling, real-time synchronization, logs and support.

## Feature comparison

| Features | Open Source | Managed |
| - | - | - |
| Source Connectors | ✅ | ✅ |
| Embed Connectors | ✅ | ✅ |
| Sink Connectors | ✅ | ✅ |
| Pipeline Run | Small scale | Large scale |
| Search | ✅ | ✅ |
| No-code pipeline creation | ❌ | ✅ |
| Pipeline Scheduling | ❌ | ✅ |
| Pipeline Management | ❌ | ✅ |
| Logging and analytics | ❌ | ✅ |
| Authentication | ❌ | ✅ |
| Real-time Sync | ❌ | Beta |
| Embeddings caching | ❌ | Beta |
| Retrieval tracking | ❌ | Beta |


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