AI is rapidly becoming part of how modern organizations design, build, secure, and deliver software. But for many teams, the first question is still practical: Where do we start?
Cortex was built to answer that question with a clear path forward. It brings AI assistance, security insight, and connected enterprise context into the development workflow, then grows with your team as your needs expand.
Today, we are making that first step easier: Cortex Enterprise AI is now available through a Free Tier. New users can experience basic Cortex chat in VS Code with no payment information required. It is a focused, low-friction way to see how Cortex fits into the work developers already do every day.
This is the next chapter in the Cortex Enterprise AI story. At the heart of Cortex is the Cortex AI Ensemble: a coordinated set of AI capabilities designed to support coding, security, analysis, and connected enterprise work. The Free Tier makes it easier for developers and teams to experience that intelligence in action before selecting the package that fits their business.
A practical way to experience Enterprise AI
The Free Tier is designed for developers who want to begin where they work: in the editor. With basic Cortex chat in VS Code, developers can ask questions, explore code, and experience AI assistance directly in their development flow.
The Free Tier keeps the first experience simple and focused. It gives developers and teams meaningful time to evaluate Cortex while providing a clear route to the security, integrations, and governance capabilities they need as adoption grows.
For organizations evaluating AI, that matters. The best enterprise AI initiatives do not begin with a disruptive platform change. They begin with a useful experience, prove value in the daily workflow, and then extend into the systems, controls, and teams that make up the broader engineering organization.
Built for the way modern teams work
Cortex is designed to meet developers in their existing workflow and give organizations room to standardize as adoption grows. Developers can use Cortex across VS Code, the browser, and mobile experiences, helping keep AI assistance available as work moves from an editor to a review, a conversation, or a decision on the go.
Behind that experience is a platform with real breadth: 8 Custom AI Models, 48 AI Agents, and 10 MCP Connections. Together, they help Cortex support a range of coding, security, analysis, and connected-work use cases without forcing teams to assemble a patchwork of point solutions.
Teams can also download Cortex and related products through 11 marketplaces, making it easier to adopt the tools through the channels they already use. With 40+ customization options, organizations can shape Cortex around the workflows, preferences, and controls that matter to their teams.
One Cortex platform, designed to grow with your business
Every Cortex package is part of the same Enterprise AI platform. The difference is not a different product, it is the depth of capability available as your development, security, 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, and enterprise integrations when they are ready.
Free Tier: See Cortex in the development workflow
The Free Tier gives developers a direct, no-payment-information-required way to experience basic Cortex chat in VS Code. It is ideal for individuals and teams who want to explore how AI can support code understanding and everyday development work without the pressure of a short evaluation window.
The Free Tier is the starting point, not a separate product path. When your team is ready to extend Cortex into security scanning, connected tools, and advanced controls, the Base, Premium, and Enterprise packages provide a natural progression.
Base: Build securely, with the essentials connected
Base provides the everyday foundation for secure AI-assisted development. It combines Cortex AI coding assistance with the core capabilities teams need to build and secure software with confidence:
- File scan and repository scan
- Software Component Analysis (SCA)
- GitHub, Atlassian, and Slack connections
- Core privacy and prompt-protection controls
For engineering teams, Base brings AI assistance closer to the work while helping make security a more natural part of the development lifecycle. Instead of treating coding, scanning, and collaboration as disconnected activities, Cortex helps bring them into one experience.
Premium: Deepen security and accelerate knowledge work
Premium includes everything in Base and adds the deeper analysis and connected productivity capabilities organizations need as they scale AI across more workflows.
- AI Security Review to help teams examine code and risk with greater depth
- Threat Model capabilities to support earlier, more structured security thinking
- Deep Privacy and Deep Prompt Guard controls for work that requires stronger protection of sensitive context
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace connections to bring relevant business knowledge closer to the development process
Premium is for teams that want AI to do more than answer questions. It helps organizations bring deeper security insight, privacy-aware controls, and productivity systems into a more connected development experience.
Enterprise: Connect Cortex to the systems that run your business
Enterprise includes everything in Premium and extends Cortex into the cloud, delivery, and business systems used by larger organizations:
- AWS and Azure connections
- Azure DevOps connection
- Salesforce connection
- Google Cloud capabilities
Enterprise is designed for organizations that need AI to operate across a broader environment, not only in code, but across the infrastructure, delivery systems, and business platforms that shape how software gets built and delivered.
As the Enterprise platform evolves, the roadmap also includes additional capabilities for multi-cloud workflows, application-security posture management, AI-first ML scanning, team features, RAG improvements, and enterprise integrations.
From AI experimentation to enterprise value
The business opportunity for 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 and operational context.
That is why Cortex is designed around a progression that makes sense for both developers and leaders:
| Package | Business value | Customer-facing capabilities |
|---|---|---|
| Free Tier | Experience Cortex with low friction | Basic chat in VS Code |
| Base | Establish a secure AI development foundation | File and repository scans, SCA, GitHub, Atlassian, Slack |
| Premium | Add deeper security analysis and connected knowledge | AI Security Review, Threat Model, Deep Privacy, Deep Prompt Guard, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace |
| Enterprise | Extend AI across critical enterprise systems | AWS, Azure, Azure DevOps, Salesforce, Google Cloud, and planned enterprise capabilities |
Whether you are an individual developer exploring AI assistance, an engineering leader looking to standardize secure development practices, or an enterprise connecting AI across cloud and business platforms, Cortex provides a clear place to start and a path to expand.
Start where you are. Scale when you are ready.
The Free Tier makes it easier to see what Cortex can do in the development environment. Base, Premium, and Enterprise make it possible to expand that value at the pace that is right for your organization.
Start your Free Tier today, or explore the package that best fits your team at Pervaziv AI Pricing.
