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 Claude: One subscription covers Vibe chat, the open-source Vibe CLI coding agent and IDE plugins, on Mistral's own models hosted in the EU. Free plan; Pro €14.99 a month.
- 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
Amsterdam-based maker of IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and other developer tools. Its AI plans add Junie, a coding agent for the terminal, IDEs and CI, plus AI chat, on models from several providers.
Compared with Claude: Coding agent Junie works in the terminal, JetBrains IDEs and CI. Picks from Claude, GPT, Gemini or local models, so code can reach US providers. AI Pro $100 a year.
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Founded
- 2000
- Employees
- 1,247
- Your data
- Not stated
- Price
- From $8.33/user/month, billed yearly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Best for
- Developers who already work in JetBrains IDEs
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 Claude: Keeps Claude models available next to GPT, Gemini and Mistral in a Berlin-run company chat with EU data storage. From €23.20 per user a month yearly; 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
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 Claude: Suits teams using Claude Projects over shared documents: agents search Notion, Slack and Drive with Claude or other models. EU hosting option. 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
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 Claude: Lumo keeps chats with zero-access encryption and works on files linked from Proton Drive, using open models on Proton's servers. Free plan; Plus €9.99 a month yearly.
- 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
Heidelberg company behind PhariaAI, a platform for running and customising language models in your own data centre or on STACKIT's German cloud. In September 2026 it agreed to combine with Cohere of Canada.
Compared with Claude: Runs on your own servers or STACKIT's German cloud, unlike Claude's API. Sales-led enterprise pricing, and Cohere of Canada has agreed to take it over.
- Headquarters
- Heidelberg, Germany
- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 430
- Funding raised
- $533.2M
- Your data
- In Europe
- Price
- On request
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- Public bodies and enterprises that need AI on-premise
French cloud from the iliad group. Generative APIs serve open models such as Mistral, Qwen, gpt-oss and DeepSeek through an OpenAI-compatible API, with all inference in a Paris data centre.
Compared with Claude: For Claude API users: open models such as Mistral, Qwen and gpt-oss, served only from Paris through an OpenAI-compatible API. From €0.15 per million input tokens.
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Founded
- 2013
- Employees
- 357
- Owned by
- iliad Group (France)
- Your data
- In Europe
- Price
- From €0.15/million input tokens
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- Developers moving an AI feature onto European servers
French cloud provider with its own data centres. AI Endpoints offers more than 20 open-weight models for text, code, speech and images through an OpenAI-compatible API, and keeps only the data needed for billing.
Compared with Claude: AI Endpoints runs over 20 open-weight models in the EU, keeps only billing data, and works with coding agents such as OpenCode. From €0.04 per million input tokens.
- Headquarters
- Roubaix, France
- Founded
- 1999
- Your data
- In Europe
- Price
- From €0.04/million input tokens
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- Developers who want open models without prompt retention
German hosting group. Its AI Model Hub serves open language, code, vision and image models through an OpenAI-compatible API from IONOS data centres in Germany, billed per token.
Compared with Claude: AI Model Hub hosts open models such as Qwen, Mistral Small, gpt-oss and Llama in Germany, with code models and an OpenAI-compatible API. From €0.10 per million input tokens.
- Headquarters
- Montabaur, Germany
- Your data
- In Europe
- Price
- From €0.10/million input tokens
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- German companies adding AI to their own software
Cloud of the Schwarz Group, owner of Lidl and Kaufland. AI Model Serving offers a few open models, such as gpt-oss, Gemma, Llama and Qwen, by API, and doesn't store prompts.
Compared with Claude: AI Model Serving offers a short list of open models, including gpt-oss, Llama and Qwen, on the Schwarz Group's own cloud. From €0.15 per million input tokens; 30-day free trial.
- Headquarters
- Bad Friedrichshall, Germany
- Owned by
- Schwarz Group (Germany)
- Your data
- In Europe
- Price
- From €0.15/million input tokens
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- Enterprises and public bodies already on STACKIT
Nasdaq-listed AI cloud based in Amsterdam, formed in 2024 when Yandex N.V. sold its Russian business. Token Factory serves open models by API; Nebius also rents GPU clusters and owns a data centre in Finland.
Compared with Claude: Token Factory serves open models through an OpenAI-compatible API. Shared endpoints may run in any region; dedicated endpoints stay in one the customer picks. Also rents GPU clusters.
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Your data
- EU region available
- Price
- On request
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- Teams running large open models at scale
San Sebastián company that shrinks open language models with its CompactifAI method and serves them through a pay-per-token API, also on AWS Marketplace. The catalogue includes compressed Mistral, Qwen and GPT-OSS models.
Compared with Claude: Compressed open models through a pay-per-token API, built to cut inference costs. A developer API only, with no chat app like Claude's.
- Headquarters
- San Sebastián, Spain
- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 260
- Funding raised
- $868.2M
- Your data
- Not stated
- Price
- On request
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- Developers who want smaller, cheaper models
Open language model from the Swiss AI Initiative (ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS), released under Apache 2.0 with its weights, data and training code. Download it, or use it through Public AI or Swisscom.
Compared with Claude: A fully open model you host yourself, so prompts never leave your servers. Comes in 8B and 70B sizes, with no official chat app.
- Headquarters
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 2020
- Your data
- Self-hosted
- Price
- Free
- Free plan
- Yes
- Best for
- Teams that want a fully transparent model to self-host
Paris company that trains its own open-weight models for reading and retrieving documents. Its platform turns an organisation's files into one searchable source for assistants, agents and document-heavy processes.
Compared with Claude: Search and analysis across document collections, for firms that use Claude to read contracts and reports. Runs LightOn's own open models on Scaleway in Paris. Demo only; no public prices.
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Founded
- 2016
- Employees
- 42
- Funding raised
- $3.7M
- Your data
- In Europe
- Price
- On request
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- Large organisations with big document archives
Paris AI lab that trains Holo models for agents that operate browsers and desktop software. Sells an Agents API, a Models API and the HoloTab browser extension, and publishes model weights.
Compared with Claude: Replaces Claude's computer use rather than its chat: Holo models drive agents that click and type in browsers and desktop apps. Free tier; Builder $20 a month.
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Founded
- 2023
- Employees
- 294
- Your data
- In Europe
- Price
- From $20/month
- Free plan
- Yes
- Best for
- Teams automating work in software that has no API
A 30-billion-parameter model for German and English from the SOOFI consortium, funded by Germany's economy ministry and trained on Telekom's AI cloud in Munich. Built as a base for industrial AI, not a chat app.
Compared with Claude: A base model for companies building their own AI, not a Claude-style assistant. Access was a closed beta for selected partners as of August 2026.
- Headquarters
- Germany
- Your data
- Self-hosted
- Price
- On request
- Free plan
- No
- Best for
- Companies building their own AI on a German model
