Infrastructure & APIs
FRFranceScaleway Generative APIs
Scaleway (Iliad Group) · France · EU / EEA
Teams that want to run open-weight models through an OpenAI-compatible API without leaving European infrastructure — the sovereign backend behind your own product, chatbot or IDE assistant.
Classification
- Jurisdiction tier
- EU / EEA — EU member state or EEA (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) — GDPR applies directly.
- Note
- French company, French registered office and inference hosted in Paris — GDPR applies directly and Scaleway states its AI services are not subject to the US CLOUD Act.
- Caveat
- This is infrastructure, not an end-user tool: there is no ready-made chat interface for non-technical staff, and the capability you get depends entirely on which open model you call. You are still the data controller for what you send.
- Compliance level
- Very high — Derived from the verified classification data on this site: Very high = EU/EEA jurisdiction + documented EU data residency + self-hostable option. High = EU/EEA + EU data residency. Medium = adequacy country + residency, or EU/EEA without documented residency. Each underlying claim carries its own source.
- Tags
- self-hostprivacyenterpriseinfrastructure
- What the badges mean
EU company — Vendor headquartered in Europe (state country + tier).
EU data residency — EU data-residency / processing option available.
Open weights — Open weights / self-hostable.
Why these rules- Last verified
- 2026-09-03
Sources
- Generative APIs hosted in European data centres, OpenAI-compatible endpoints
- Zero Data Retention by default; prompts and outputs not used for training; data stored in Paris, France; AI services not subject to the US CLOUD Act
- Public launch: 'a drop-in alternative to OpenAI APIs, 100% made in Europe'
- Supported open-weight models list
AI Capability Snapshot
AI Capability Index — normalised so the strongest model scores 100 (anchor: Claude Opus 5 (max effort)). How this is measured
Not yet scored — Scaleway is a hosting layer, not a model. The capability you get is the capability of whichever open-weight model you call through the API.
- Scored on
- Not scored as a model: Generative APIs serve third-party open-weight models. Score the model you choose, not the platform.
- Price level
- Pay per million tokens
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-03
Reference models (non-EU)
For scale only — these models are not European and are not listed in the directory.
- Claude Opus 5 · Anthropic (US)100 / 100
- GPT-5.6 · OpenAI (US)97 / 100
- Gemini 3.7 · Google (US)89 / 100
Independent, informational guide — not legal, security or compliance advice. Classifications describe company location, GDPR transfer status, data-residency options and licensing as of the date shown, from public sources. Verify data-processing terms with the provider before use, especially for personal or sensitive data. No affiliation with any vendor.