The European AI tools directory

    18 tools, grouped by task. Every classification links to its source on the tool page.

    Text & chat

    Writing, analysis and everyday assistant work.

    Le Chat

    Mistral AI · France

    The all-rounder — everyday writing, business tasks and general assistant. The most mature EU alternative to ChatGPT/Claude.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Open weights
    Compliance: Very high
    See details and sources

    PhariaAI

    Aleph Alpha · Germany

    Enterprise, government and regulated sectors needing full sovereignty and auditability.

    Model weights are research/non-commercial (Open Aleph License); commercial use is via Aleph Alpha.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Compliance: High
    See details and sources

    Lumo

    Proton · Switzerland

    Privacy-maximalist chat for individuals and small teams.

    Switzerland is an adequacy country, not an EU/EEA member.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Compliance: Medium
    See details and sources

    LightOn · France

    Enterprise RAG and document intelligence, incl. VPC / on-prem / air-gapped deployment.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Open weights
    Compliance: Very high
    See details and sources

    Danish Foundation Models · Denmark

    Danish-language open model you can self-host.

    Research/foundation model — not a polished consumer chat product.

    EU company
    Open weights
    Compliance: Medium
    See details and sources

    SnakModel

    IT University of Copenhagen (NLPnorth) · Denmark

    Danish-language open 7B model from ITU Copenhagen.

    Academic/open model — self-host or via Hugging Face.

    EU company
    Open weights
    Compliance: Medium
    See details and sources

    Silo AI (LumiOpen) · Finland

    Strong Nordic-language open models (incl. Danish) you can self-host.

    Helsinki team, but Silo AI is owned by AMD (US) since 2024.

    EU company
    Open weights
    Compliance: Medium
    See details and sources

    DanskGPT

    syv.ai · Denmark

    Danish-language chat and LLM built for Danish terminology, legal text and public-sector language; deployed across Danish organisations.

    Verify licence per model version on Hugging Face (danskgpt-v5 listed as Apache 2.0).

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Open weights
    Compliance: Very high
    See details and sources

    Images

    Image generation and visual work.

    FLUX

    Black Forest Labs · Germany

    The EU image champion — high-quality generation and editing; open [schnell] and [klein] tiers (Apache 2.0) for self-hosting.

    [dev] tiers are non-commercial open-weight; [pro/flex] are proprietary API.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Open weights
    Compliance: Very high
    See details and sources

    Stability AI · United Kingdom

    Open-model image generation with a broad ecosystem of tools and fine-tunes.

    UK-based (post-Brexit, not EU); mixed licenses incl. Community License.

    EU company
    Open weights
    Compliance: Medium
    See details and sources

    Mistral AI · France

    Easy in-chat image generation for non-designers.

    Runs Black Forest Labs' FLUX Pro under the hood — an EU-on-EU pairing.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Compliance: High
    See details and sources

    Code

    Coding assistants and developer tooling.

    Mistral AI · France

    Code completion and chat in VS Code and JetBrains; ~80 languages.

    Open weights are under the Mistral Non-Production License (not Apache); commercial use via API/license. Verify per version.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Compliance: High
    See details and sources

    Devstral

    Mistral AI · France

    Agentic coding, Apache 2.0, laptop-friendly; strong on SWE-bench-style tasks.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Open weights
    Compliance: Very high
    See details and sources

    JetBrains AI

    JetBrains · Czech Republic

    Integrated assistant for JetBrains IDE users, with local completion options.

    Proprietary.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Compliance: High
    See details and sources

    Continue (open source) + Mistral model · EU model

    Sovereign, self-hosted IDE setup: open-source extension driven by an EU model.

    Continue itself is a US open-source project; the sovereignty is in running an EU/open model behind it.

    EU data residency
    Open weights
    Compliance: Very high
    See details and sources

    Lovable

    Lovable · Sweden

    Build full web apps from a prompt — EU-built (this app was made in it).

    EU company
    Compliance: Medium
    See details and sources

    Speech

    Speech-to-text and voice.

    Hviske

    syv.ai · Denmark

    Danish speech-to-text (ASR); open models on Hugging Face.

    Speech is a phase-2 category — listed in data, not in the launch picker.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Open weights
    Compliance: Very high
    See details and sources

    Plapre

    syv.ai · Denmark

    Danish text-to-speech; small open models (plapre-nano/pico) on Hugging Face.

    Speech is a phase-2 category — listed in data, not in the launch picker.

    EU company
    EU data residency
    Open weights
    Compliance: Very high
    See details and sources

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