European Alternatives to OpenAI
US AI lab behind GPT models, the ChatGPT assistant and the OpenAI API. Here are 14 GDPR-compliant European alternatives that keep your data in the EU.
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
Compare OpenAI Alternatives
| Company | Headquarters | Data Residency | Founded | Pricing | Open Source | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonn, Germany | — | — | Custom | ❌ No | Visit | |
| Heidelberg, Germany | 🇪🇺 EU Only | 2019 | Custom enterprise pricing | ❌ No | Visit | |
| Stockholm, Sweden | — | — | Usage-based | ❌ No | Visit | |
| Vienna, Austria | 🇪🇺 EU Available | — | Usage-based | ❌ No | Visit | |
| Munich, Germany | 🇪🇺 EU Available | — | €0 | ❌ No | Visit |
14 European Alternatives
Alan AI
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.
German sovereign AI platform focused on enterprise and public-sector deployments in regulated environments.
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.
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.
Curiosity is a German AI-powered knowledge management and search platform founded in 2020 in Berlin, providing a unified search experience across all of a user's apps, files, and data sources. The platform connects to 40+ applications (email, cloud storage, CRM, project tools) and uses AI to search across everything from a single interface. Curiosity goes beyond simple file search by understanding context, relationships, and content within documents, enabling users to find information by describing what they need in natural language. The platform runs locally on the user's device with optional cloud sync, ensuring privacy and fast performance.
Estonian AI chat assistant built and hosted entirely in Europe, with text, image, web search, and file modes and no training on user data.
French enterprise AI workspace for internal assistants, knowledge retrieval, and multi-model workflows.
Paris-founded agentic AI company building models, products, and browser-based agents for enterprise task automation.
French enterprise generative AI platform focused on sovereign deployment, private assistants, and regulated-team rollouts.
French frontier-model company offering open-weight and managed LLMs with EU-hosted deployment options.
Outmind is a French enterprise search platform founded in Paris that uses generative AI to provide instant access to internal company knowledge. The platform connects to all enterprise tools and surfaces answers from across documents, emails, chat messages, and databases through a single search interface. Outmind uses RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to generate accurate answers sourced from the organization's own data, with citations linking back to original documents. The platform is designed for knowledge workers who waste hours searching for information across fragmented tools.
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.
Stability AI is a UK-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 in London, best known for creating Stable Diffusion — the world's most popular open-source image generation model. The company develops open AI models across multiple modalities including image generation (Stable Diffusion), video generation (Stable Video Diffusion), audio (Stable Audio), 3D generation, and language models. Stability AI's models have been downloaded billions of times and power thousands of applications worldwide. The company's commitment to open-source has democratized access to generative AI, enabling developers, artists, and businesses to build with state-of-the-art AI without depending on closed APIs. Stability offers both self-hosted models and a cloud API for commercial use, with enterprise solutions for organizations needing dedicated infrastructure.
Spanish private AI assistant platform for on-prem document Q&A, summarization, and workflow automation in sensitive environments.