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

# Cognee Cloud

> Managed environment for running Cognee pipelines without local infrastructure

Cognee Cloud provides the full Cognee platform as a hosted service. It handles infrastructure, storage, and compute so you can focus on building knowledge graphs and querying them.

## What Cognee Cloud provides

* **Managed infrastructure** — Preconfigured compute, storage ([PostgreSQL](https://postgresql.org/), [LanceDB](https://lancedb.com/), [Kuzu](https://kuzudb.com/)), and pipeline execution. No local installation required.
* **Pipeline execution** — Run [remember](/core-concepts/main-operations/remember), [recall](/core-concepts/main-operations/recall), [forget](/core-concepts/main-operations/forget), and the lower-level [add](/core-concepts/main-operations/legacy-operations/add), [cognify](/core-concepts/main-operations/legacy-operations/cognify), [search](/core-concepts/main-operations/legacy-operations/search) operations from the UI or API.
* **Web UI** — Upload data, explore knowledge graphs, run searches, and manage datasets through the browser.
* **Python SDK** — The [`cognee` package](/cognee-cloud/connections/cloud-sdk) connects to Cognee Cloud via `cognee.serve()`, using the same API as local Cognee.
* **Agent connections** — Connect agent frameworks, local instances, or external data sources. See [Connections](/cognee-cloud/connections/connecting-an-agent).
* **Multi-tenancy** — Dataset-level isolation with role-based access control. See [Permissions](/cognee-cloud/functionality/permissions-and-access-control).

## Relationship to Cognee OSS

Cognee Cloud uses the same concepts, operations, and API patterns as [open-source Cognee](/core-concepts/overview). The difference is deployment:

* **Cognee Cloud** — Hosted persistence, managed compute, collaboration features.
* **Open-source Cognee** — Local development, custom infrastructure, air-gapped environments.

You can connect a local Cognee instance to Cognee Cloud using [`cognee.serve()`](/cognee-cloud/connections/syncing-local-instance).

## Get started

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  <Card title="Create an account" icon="key" href="/cognee-cloud/sign-up">
    Sign up, start a free trial, and generate an API key.
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  <Card title="Quick start" icon="play" href="/cognee-cloud/quickstart">
    Upload data, build a knowledge graph, and run your first search.
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  <Card title="Navigating the UI" icon="mouse-pointer" href="/cognee-cloud/ui/dashboard">
    Learn what each page in the Cognee Cloud console does.
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    Explore the API endpoints available in Cognee Cloud.
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    Connect agents, databases, or a local instance.
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    How Modal compute, storage services, and datasets fit together.
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