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What is Nace AI?
Nace AI is a Palo Alto company founded in 2024 that builds small models for professional work. Its Drex for Finance model, released in November 2026, scores cases such as transactions, alerts and filings against a fixed set of options and returns a confidence for each.
Nace AI builds decision models rather than chat models. You send Drex a case and the options it can choose from, and it returns a calibrated probability for each option. Because it can only answer with the options you list, it cannot invent a label, which suits compliance pipelines that route, approve or escalate. Nace also sells document processing that returns each value grounded to the page it came from.
Drex for Finance (model id drex-max-finance) is Drex Max trained further on financial decisions. Its compliance and risk training covers KYC and AML red flags, sanctions and PEP screening, adverse media, disclosure checks, transaction monitoring alerts and regulatory change relevance, alongside fraud, credit, accounting and audit, filings and insurance. Nace reports 77.3 on its own Drex Finance Index across 48 held-out test sets and a median of 0.82 seconds per short case; all of these benchmarks are self-reported.
Nace is SOC 2 Type II audited and offers self-hosted or hybrid deployment so cases do not leave the customer's network. Base Drex models are released with open weights, while Drex for Finance and Drex Max remain closed for enterprise clients. Drex Max is priced from $0.03 per 1,000 decisions on the API (a 50% launch price); Drex for Finance pricing and enterprise terms are handled by sales.
Nace AI news
Nace AI releases Drex for Finance
A decision model post-trained on financial cases, including AML red flags, sanctions and PEP screening and transaction monitoring alerts, that answers only from the options you supply.
Key features
Drex for Finance
A decision model post-trained on financial cases that picks from the options you supply and returns a probability for each.
AML and sanctions triage
Trained on KYC and AML red flags, sanctions and PEP screening, adverse media and transaction monitoring alerts.
Fraud scoring
Scores transactions before they clear, flags account-takeover signals and triages disputes and chargebacks.
Threshold-based routing
Every answer is a probability, so teams set the line for auto-approval, auto-flagging and analyst review.
Grounded document processing
Parses, classifies and extracts from files, with every value linked to the page it came from.
Private deployment
Self-hosted or hybrid deployment keeps cases inside the customer's network; SOC 2 Type II audited.
Nace AI pricing
Starting price: $0.03 per 1,000 decisions (Drex Max) (as of Nov 2026)
The Nace Console offers free sign-up. Drex Max is listed at $0.03 per 1,000 decisions at its 50% launch price. Drex for Finance is a closed enterprise model, so its pricing and terms come from sales.
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Free trial: Free sign-up on the Nace Console; enterprise models through sales.
Pros & cons
Pros
- Answers are limited to the options you define, with a probability for each
- Sub-second latency and low per-decision cost
- Self-hosted and hybrid deployment, SOC 2 Type II
- Open-weight base models available
Cons
- A model for developers, not a finished case management product
- All benchmark numbers are self-reported
- Drex for Finance itself is closed and priced through sales
- No named compliance customers yet
Who is Nace AI best for?
- Fintech engineering teams building their own alert triage pipelines
- Compliance teams that want scored, auditable decisions instead of free text
- High-volume screening where cost and latency per decision matter
- Firms that need models deployed inside their own network
Use cases
Integrations
Frequently asked questions
What is Drex for Finance?
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It is Nace AI's decision model for financial work, released November 2, 2026. You send a case and the allowed answers, and it picks one and returns how confident it is. The model id is drex-max-finance.
Can Nace AI be used for AML?
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Yes, as a component. Drex for Finance is trained on KYC and AML red flags, sanctions and PEP screening, adverse media and transaction monitoring alerts, and can triage alerts inside your own pipeline.
Is Nace AI a replacement for a transaction monitoring platform?
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No. Nace provides models and an API, not case management, rules or regulatory reporting. It fits alongside or inside an existing compliance stack.
How much does Nace AI cost?
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Drex Max is listed at $0.03 per 1,000 decisions at launch pricing. Drex for Finance is a closed enterprise model priced through sales.
Can Nace AI run on-premises?
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Yes. Nace offers self-hosted and hybrid deployment so data does not leave your network, and it is SOC 2 Type II audited.
How accurate is Drex for Finance?
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Nace reports 85.7% accuracy on 3,361 decisions across 48 held-out finance test sets and a 77.3 Drex Finance Index score. These are Nace's own benchmarks.
Sources
Facts and pricing verified on November 6, 2026. Vendors change pricing often, so confirm with Nace AI before buying. How we research
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