> Source: https://mywaypoint.ai/docs/platform/deployment
> Documentation index: https://mywaypoint.ai/llms.txt

# Where it runs

**Waypoint runs in Waypoint's cloud or self-hosted in your own environment, with the model provider you already use & the same product either way, so where your data lives & whose model reads it are your decisions.**


## For

- [Security](https://mywaypoint.ai/security)
- [Integrations](https://mywaypoint.ai/docs/integrations)

## Our cloud or yours

Run Waypoint as a service in Waypoint's cloud, or self-hosted inside your own environment, so your cases, tables & documents stay where your security team wants them. Everything runs where you put it, including the sandboxes that execute code for your pipelines. Start in Waypoint's cloud from [the trial](https://mywaypoint.ai/trial); for self-hosted, [tell us what you run](https://mywaypoint.ai/request-demo).

## Bring your own model

Chip works with the model provider you already use, so the model & the account stay yours. An administrator adds a model configuration under **Integrations**: a name, the provider, the model & the credentials, which are stored encrypted & never shown again. Once added, it appears by name wherever a step chooses its model & a step that names it runs on nothing else. A workspace holds more than one, so a labeling step runs on a small model & the judgement step on a large one.

## What stays where

- **Your data** is held in your workspace, apart from every other workspace's; every query stays inside it.
- **Connected systems** stay the system of record. Waypoint reads the mirror & writes back only what a pipeline you switched on tells it to.
- **Credentials** for connected systems & model providers are stored encrypted & are write-only: set once, never read back.
- **Code & coding agents** run in isolated sandboxes, one per run; the sandbox runs in your environment when Waypoint does.
- **Model calls** go to the provider you chose & nowhere else.

## Read next

- [Security](https://mywaypoint.ai/security): the controls, in one place.
- [Integrations](https://mywaypoint.ai/docs/integrations): what connects & how connecting works.
- [Agents as steps](https://mywaypoint.ai/docs/platform/agents): where the model choice is used.