SiteHost has launched an AI Platform for businesses in New Zealand, running on its own data centre infrastructure in the country. The Auckland-based hosting provider targets companies seeking generative AI tools without relying on offshore providers or dedicated hardware. The service uses usage-based token pricing with no upfront fee or minimum spend. Input pricing starts at NZ$0.09 per million tokens and rises to NZ$0.28 per million tokens for the Qwen 3.6 27B inference model, while output pricing reaches NZ$2.76 per million tokens. SiteHost contrasted these rates with lower-cost Anthropic models, which it said charge US$1 for the same input and US$5 for output, with more advanced models costing about five times more. Data residency is central: every request is processed on New Zealand infrastructure, and request data is not stored or used to train models. The platform launches with three open-weight models: Qwen 3.6 27B for general-purpose inference, plus Qwen 3 VL embedding and reranking models for semantic search. Each model remains available for at least a year with a three-month deprecation window. The service includes an OpenAI-compatible API, allowing businesses to switch with limited code changes. SiteHost expects the platform to suit small and medium-sized businesses with uneven AI demand, such as transcribing audio and video, summarising documents, and running semantic search. Founded in 2004, SiteHost operates New Zealand-based cloud hosting, including GPU