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Checked November 2026

10 Best European Alternatives to ChatGPT (2026)

ChatGPT is the AI chat assistant made by OpenAI, a San Francisco company. It runs on OpenAI's GPT models and is sold in free, personal, team and enterprise plans. It's also known as Chat GPT. The same list works if you're replacing Claude, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. The European alternatives that replace it best are Mistral AI (France) for teams that want a European model maker, not a reseller, Proton (Switzerland) for people and teams who want one privacy-focused Swiss account and Langdock (Germany) for companies rolling AI chat out to every employee.

European alternatives
10
From 3 countries
Keep data in Europe
8
By default, no setting needed
With a free plan
4
No time limit
Open source
1
Can run on your own servers

ChatGPT alternatives from Europe, compared

Best first for someone replacing ChatGPT. Headcount and founding year come from LeadWave's database; prices, hosting and G2 ratings from each company's own pages and G2, checked in November 2026.

European alternatives to ChatGPT
AlternativeHeadquartersFoundedEmployeesG2 ratingFree planPaid plans fromYour dataOpen source
1Mistral AIParis, France20231,200—Yes€14.99/monthIn EuropeNo
2ProtonGeneva, Switzerland2014635—Yes$2.99/monthIn EuropeYes
3LangdockBerlin, Germany2023305.0 (8 reviews)No€23.20/user/monthIn EuropeNo
4DustParis, France20231184.6 (80 reviews)No€24/user/monthEU region availableNo
5InfomaniakGeneva, Switzerland———YesCHF 19/yearIn EuropeNo
6OmnifactFrankfurt, Germany———No€25/user/monthIn EuropeNo
7meinGPTUnterhaching, Germany———No€18/user/monthIn EuropeNo
8Mammouth AIParis, France2024——No€12/monthIn EuropeNo
9nele.aiHungen, Germany———No—In EuropeNo
10DeepLCologne, Germany——4.6 (171 reviews)Yes€7.49/month—No

The 10 alternatives in detail

1. Mistral AI

AI assistant Vibe (formerly Le Chat) on its own models

French AI lab that trains its own language models and sells Vibe, the chat and agent app renamed from Le Chat in May 2026, plus an API for developers.

Compared with ChatGPT: Runs only Mistral's own models, hosted in the EU by default. Free plan, Pro at €14.99 a month. No choice of GPT, Claude or Gemini models.

Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2023
Employees
1,200
Funding raised
$4B
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €14.99/month
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Teams that want a European model maker, not a reseller

2. Proton

Encrypted email, passwords, storage and AI from Switzerland

Swiss company behind Proton Mail, Proton Pass and the Lumo AI assistant. Proton Pass is an open-source password manager with end-to-end encryption, email aliases and a built-in 2FA code generator.

Compared with ChatGPT: Lumo runs open models such as Qwen and Apertus on Proton's own servers, with encrypted chat history. Free plan; Plus is €9.99 a month yearly. No GPT or Claude.

Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland
Founded
2014
Employees
635
Your data
In Europe
Price
From $2.99/month, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
People and teams who want one privacy-focused Swiss account

3. Langdock

Company-wide AI chat with many models, hosted in the EU

Berlin platform that gives a whole company one chat app over several AI models, with custom agents, workflows, meeting notes and admin controls. Runs on Microsoft Azure servers in the EU.

Compared with ChatGPT: One company chat over several models, hosted on Azure in the EU, with agents and workflows. From €23.20 per user a month, billed yearly. Built for companies; no free plan.

Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2023
Employees
30
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €23.20/user/month, billed yearly
Free plan
No
Best for
Companies rolling AI chat out to every employee

4. Dust

AI agents connected to a company's own tools and data

Paris platform for building AI agents that search and act on company data in Slack, Notion, Google Drive and other tools, using models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral.

Compared with ChatGPT: Builds agents over company data in Slack, Notion or Drive, with GPT, Claude, Gemini or Mistral models; EU or US hosting. Pro €24 per user a month yearly.

Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2023
Employees
118
Your data
EU region available
Price
From €24/user/month, billed yearly
Free plan
No
Best for
Teams building agents on top of internal knowledge

5. Infomaniak

Swiss cloud company with the Euria AI assistant

Independent Swiss cloud and hosting company. Its Euria assistant runs open-source models in Infomaniak's own data centres in Switzerland and is built into the kSuite mail and drive apps.

Compared with ChatGPT: Euria runs open-source models in Swiss data centres and comes free with an Infomaniak account; my kSuite+ costs CHF 19 a year. No GPT or Claude models.

Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland
Your data
In Europe
Price
From CHF 19/year, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
People already using Infomaniak mail or kDrive

6. Omnifact

Private AI chat and assistants for regulated teams

Frankfurt platform for team AI chat and assistants on internal documents. Hosted in Germany or on-premises, with a privacy filter and admin rules on which models and regions staff may use.

Compared with ChatGPT: Frankfurt platform hosted in Germany or on-premises, with a privacy filter and admin rules for allowed models. Pro €25 per user a month yearly, for teams up to 50.

Headquarters
Frankfurt, Germany
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €25/user/month, billed yearly
Free plan
No
Best for
Public bodies and regulated firms

7. meinGPT

Company AI chat hosted in Germany

German platform from SelectCode that gives staff chat with several AI models, shared assistants, meeting notes and admin controls, hosted in Hetzner data centres in Germany.

Compared with ChatGPT: German company chat hosted at Hetzner in Germany, with shared assistants and meeting notes. €18 per user a month yearly for small teams, plus a separate model budget.

Headquarters
Unterhaching, Germany
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €18/user/month, billed yearly
Free plan
No
Best for
German companies that want hosting in Germany

8. Mammouth AI

One subscription for many AI models

French chat app that bundles models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and others, plus image generation, for one monthly fee. Account data is stored in the EEA; prompts go to each model's provider.

Compared with ChatGPT: One €12 monthly subscription for GPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral and other models, with account data in the EEA. Prompts still go to each model's provider, often in the US.

Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2024
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €12/month
Free plan
No
Best for
Individuals who want several models for one price

9. nele.ai

Company AI chat billed by usage, not per seat

German AI chat platform from GAL Digital for whole organisations. Firms buy a monthly credit volume shared by all staff; chats are stored on German servers and admins pick EU or international model hosting.

Compared with ChatGPT: Billed by shared usage credits, not per seat. Chats stay on German servers and admins choose EU or international model hosting. Price only through the online configurator.

Headquarters
Hungen, Germany
Your data
In Europe
Price
On request
Free plan
No
Best for
Organisations with many occasional AI users

10. DeepL

AI translation and writing correction

Cologne company known for machine translation, with DeepL Write for editing text and DeepL Voice for live speech translation. It is not a general chat assistant.

Compared with ChatGPT: Translation and text editing, not a general chat assistant. Covers the translate-and-polish part of ChatGPT use, from €7.49 a month yearly, with a free translator.

Headquarters
Cologne, Germany
Your data
Not stated
Price
From €7.49/month, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Teams that mainly use AI to translate and polish text

14 European AI model companies in our database

LeadWave's database has 14 companies headquartered in Europe that build their own AI models: in the United Kingdom (5), France (3), Germany (3), Italy (1), Spain (1) and Switzerland (1). Here are all 14, the largest first.

European AI model companies
CompanyMakesCountryEmployeesFundingCEO
1ElevenLabselevenlabs.ioVoice and audio modelsUnited Kingdom1,500$792MMati Staniszewski
2Mistral AImistral.aiLanguage modelsFrance1,200$4BArthur Mensch
3Multiverse Computingmultiversecomputing.comLanguage modelsSpain260$868.2MEnrique Lizaso Olmos
4Domyndomyn.comLanguage modelsItaly221$734.9MUljan Sharka
5Stability AIstability.aiImage modelsUnited Kingdom188$445.6MPrem Akkaraju
6Black Forest Labsbfl.aiImage modelsGermany100$331MRobin Rombach
7Sereactsereact.aiRobotics modelsGermany87$140MRalf Gulde
8Mimic Roboticsmimicrobotics.comRobotics modelsSwitzerland83$18.5MStefan Weirich
9Basecamp Researchbasecamp-research.comScience modelsUnited Kingdom72$220MGlen Gowers
10Recraftrecraft.aiImage modelsUnited Kingdom46$42.3MAnna Dorogush
11Prior Labspriorlabs.aiTabular data modelsGermany37$19.2MFrank Hutter
12BeyondMathbeyondmath.comScience modelsUnited Kingdom25$28.9MAlan Patterson
13Gradiumgradium.aiVoice and audio modelsFrance8$100MNeil Zeghidour
14AMI Labsamilabs.xyzWorld modelsFrance3$1BAlex LeBrun

Headcount, funding and CEO come from LeadWave's database; headcount is the latest known figure.

Why look for a European alternative to ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is headquartered in San Francisco, United States and owned by OpenAI (United States). These are the reasons buyers in Europe most often give for looking elsewhere:

  • OpenAI is a US company. Users in the EEA and Switzerland contract with OpenAI Ireland Ltd, but the parent company remains under US law.
  • European data residency is limited: since February 2025, API customers and new ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu customers can keep data in Europe. The launch did not cover other plans.
  • Italy's data protection authority blocked ChatGPT for about a month in 2023 and fined OpenAI €15 million in December 2024. A Rome court upheld OpenAI's appeal against the fine in March 2026.
  • ChatGPT only offers OpenAI's own models. Teams that want to switch between providers, or keep a model on their own servers, need another tool.

How this list was made

A company counts as European if it's headquartered in Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. Headquarters means where it's run from, not a registered office. Companies founded in Europe but headquartered elsewhere today are listed separately, and a non-European owner is always named.

Each company was checked against its own legal notice, pricing page and data-processing terms, and its G2 page. Headcount, funding and founding year come from LeadWave's database of SaaS companies. No company paid to be listed or ranked.

More European alternatives

Frequently asked questions

It depends on what you use ChatGPT for. Mistral AI (France) for teams that want a European model maker, not a reseller, Proton (Switzerland) for people and teams who want one privacy-focused Swiss account and Langdock (Germany) for companies rolling AI chat out to every employee. All 10 on this page are headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.