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European Alternatives to Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform for cloud infrastructure. Here are 13 GDPR-compliant European alternatives that keep your data in the EU.

Why Consider European Alternatives?

GDPR Compliance

Built for European privacy standards from day one

EU Data Residency

Your data never leaves European servers

No US CLOUD Act

Not subject to US government data requests

Local Support

European timezone customer support

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Founded
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Open Source
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Gunzenhausen, Germany🇪🇺 EU Only1997From €3.29/mo (VPS)❌ NoVisit
Paris, France🇪🇺 EU Only1999From €0.0025/hour❌ NoVisit
Roubaix, France🇪🇺 EU Only1999From €3.50/mo❌ NoVisit
Geneva, Switzerland🇪🇺 EU Only1994From CHF 3.90/mo❌ NoVisit
Bonn, GermanyCustom❌ NoVisit
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13 European Alternatives

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Gunzenhausen, Germany
Founded 1997From €3.29/mo (VPS)~400 employees

German hosting powerhouse. Incredible price/performance. Dedicated servers and cloud.

Paris, France
Founded 1999From €0.0025/hour~600 employees

French cloud provider. VPS, Kubernetes, serverless, object storage. Competitive pricing.

Roubaix, France
Founded 1999From €3.50/mo~2,500 employees

French cloud giant. One of Europe's largest hosting providers. Full cloud suite.

Geneva, Switzerland
Founded 1994From CHF 3.90/mo~200 employees

Swiss hosting provider. Eco-friendly, independent, privacy-focused.

Bonn, Germany
Custom~200 (Comma Soft group) employees

Alan (by Comma Soft) is a German enterprise generative AI platform based in Bonn, providing secure AI chat and autonomous agents designed for data sovereignty. The platform enables organizations to deploy ChatGPT-like capabilities within their own infrastructure or on German cloud servers, ensuring that sensitive data never leaves the organization's control. Alan supports multiple LLM backends and provides tools for building custom AI agents that can access internal knowledge bases, execute workflows, and interact with enterprise systems. The platform is particularly popular with German enterprises and public sector organizations.

Stockholm, Sweden
Usage-based~15 employees

Berget AI is a Swedish sovereign AI cloud platform providing EU-hosted AI inference infrastructure. The platform enables European organizations to run open-source large language models on dedicated EU servers without sending data to US cloud providers. Berget AI dynamically routes AI workloads across European data centers for optimal performance and cost, offering a simple API that's compatible with the OpenAI format for easy migration. The platform supports models like Llama, Mistral, and other open-source LLMs, with a focus on data sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and competitive pricing compared to US alternatives.

Vienna, Austria
Usage-based~15 employees

Cortecs AI is an Austrian company providing Europe's LLM router — a sovereign AI inference gateway that dynamically routes AI workloads across European cloud providers. The platform optimizes for cost, latency, and compliance by intelligently selecting the best EU-based infrastructure for each request. Cortecs enables enterprises to use open-source models like Llama and Mistral without depending on US hyperscalers, while maintaining full GDPR compliance. The API is OpenAI-compatible, making migration from US AI providers straightforward.

Lausanne, Switzerland
Founded 2011From CHF 0.006/hour~50 employees

Swiss cloud provider. Simple, reliable, European. Great for regulated industries.

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded 2016From €5/mo~15 employees

Dutch OpenStack cloud. 100% open source infrastructure. True European alternative.

Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Usage-based~10 employees

Infercom is a Luxembourg-based sovereign AI inference platform providing EU-hosted infrastructure for running open-source LLMs on dedicated SambaNova hardware. The platform offers high-performance AI inference without relying on US hyperscalers, with all processing happening in European data centers. Infercom supports major open-source models and provides an API for easy integration. The platform is designed for enterprises and organizations that need sovereign AI capabilities with guaranteed data residency in the EU.

Berlin, Germany
Founded 2016Open-source core plus enterprise platform pricing~100 employees

Berlin-founded conversational AI stack for self-hosted assistants, support automation, and enterprise workflow control.

Rotterdam, Netherlands
Custom~10 employees

Soev.ai is a Dutch sovereign AI platform focusing on maximum information security and autonomy. The platform is developed open-source, runs on EU infrastructure, and provides organizations with a secure environment for deploying and using AI models without data leaving European borders. Soev.ai targets organizations in government, healthcare, legal, and financial sectors where data sovereignty is non-negotiable. The platform offers chat interfaces, API access, and integration capabilities for building AI-powered workflows.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Founded 2006Usage-based and enterprise pricing~250 employees

UK speech AI company for transcription, translation, and real-time voice infrastructure across global languages.