29 European AI vendors.
AI: Artificial intelligence — large language models, translation, generative AI. Below, every vendor in the knowledge base headquartered in the EU or the EEA, each checked by us for headquarters, owner, hosting and licence. Non-European vendors are listed at the bottom with a link to their European alternatives.
46 vendors in total: 29 European, 13 American, 4 other; 13 open source. Last checked: 6 October 2026.
Why this matters for digital sovereignty
AI services process prompts and documents that can contain sensitive business or personal content, so hosting location and the US CLOUD Act determine who can access that data. Check where inference runs, whether prompts are reused for training and whether an EU hosting option is offered.
European vendors
- Aleph AlphaEU sovereign
German enterprise AI provider (Heidelberg) focused on sovereign AI. Merged with Canada's Cohere in April 2026 (Cohere shareholders ~90%) — effectively an acquisition; Schwarz Group remains a strategic investor.
Germany
- Black Forest LabsEU sovereign
German AI studio behind the FLUX image-generation models.
Germany
- DeepLEU sovereign
German AI-powered translation service for business and personal use
Germany
- DustEU sovereign
French AI platform for building internal AI assistants with LLM integration
France · open-source
- Haystack (deepset)EU sovereign
Berlin-based deepset GmbH's open-source (Apache-2.0) LLM orchestration framework for RAG and agent pipelines; actively maintained (v2.30.2, June 2026) with 232+ releases.
Germany · open-source
- HelsingEU sovereign
German AI company for defence and security with European values
Germany
- Jina AIEU-hosted, non-EU parent
Jina AI is a Berlin-based AI company specialising in frontier models for multimodal and multilingual search, including open-source embedding and reranker models. Since October 2025 it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), a US company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Elastic has committed to continuing open-source model releases on Hugging Face.
Germany · owner in United States · open-source
- Kern AIEU sovereign
German platform for data-centric AI and training data management
Germany · open-source
- LabelfEU sovereign
Swedish no-code AI platform for text classification and NLP
Sweden
- LangdockEU sovereign
German enterprise AI platform with meerdere LLMs on EU-infrastructure, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified
Germany
- LangfuseEU-hosted, non-EU parent
Langfuse is an open-source LLM observability platform (MIT license) originally founded in Germany, acquired by ClickHouse Inc. (USA) in January 2026. The ultimate parent is US-based.
Germany · owner in United States · open-source
- LanguageToolEU-hosted, non-EU parent
German writing assistant.
Germany · owner in United States
- LettriaEU sovereign
French NLP platform for structured text analysis and extraction
France
- LightOnEU sovereign
French enterprise GenAI offerings.
France
- llama.cppSelf-hosted / open source
Foundational open-source LLM inference framework (MIT), created by Georgi Gerganov via his Sofia, Bulgaria-based ggml.ai, with broad community contribution and Hugging Face support.
Bulgaria · open-source
- LovableEU sovereign
Stockholm-headquartered AI vibe-coding platform generating full-stack web apps from natural-language prompts; active product with major enterprise customers (Klarna, Deutsche Telekom).
Sweden
- MacWhisperEU sovereign
Dutch Mac app (Good Snooze, Jordi Bruin) for transcribing audio and video with the Whisper and Parakeet models, entirely on-device. Optional cloud transcription and AI summaries through providers the user picks with their own key.
Netherlands
- MindverseEU sovereign
German AI platform for generating German-language content
Germany
- Mistral AIEU sovereign
French generative AI company building open and commercial LLMs
France · open-source
- Murf AIEU sovereign
AI-based voice-over platform for generating realistic voices
Ireland
- NyonicEU sovereign
German AI company (formerly Aleph Alpha spin-off) for enterprise LLM solutions
Germany
- PhariaAI (Aleph Alpha)EU sovereign
Aleph Alpha's (Heidelberg, Germany) sovereign "operating system for generative AI", specifically built for governments and heavily regulated enterprises; launched August 2024.
Germany
- PhotoRoomEU sovereign
French AI photo editing for product photography and background removal
France
- Proton LumoEU sovereign
Swiss privacy-first AI assistant with zero-access encryption, hosted in Europe
Switzerland
- QdrantEU sovereign
Vector database with EU entity; self-host.
Germany · open-source
- RasaEU sovereign
Rasa is a conversational AI platform. The open-source framework (Apache-2.0) entered maintenance mode in 2024-2025; active development has moved to the proprietary Rasa Pro product featuring the CALM (Conversational AI with Language Models) engine. New feature development occurs exclusively in the commercial tier.
Germany
- Silo AIEU-hosted, non-EU parent
Finnish AI company for enterprise AI solutions and multilingual models
Finland · owner in United States
- TextCortexEU sovereign
German AI writing platform for content creation and tekstgeneratie
Germany
- WeaviateEU sovereign
Dutch open-source vector database for AI
Netherlands · open-source
Non-European vendors in this category
For each vendor, the page with European alternatives and the sovereignty profile.
- Non-EU vendorAI21 LabsIsrael · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorAnthropic ClaudeUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorAWS BedrockUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorGoogle GeminiUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorGoogle TranslateUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorHugging FaceUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorLangSmithUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorLiteLLMUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorMicrosoft CopilotUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Self-hosted / open sourceOllamaUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorOpenAI / ChatGPTUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorPerplexity AIUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorPineconeUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorPolyAIUnited Kingdom · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorStability AIUnited Kingdom · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorSynthesiaUnited Kingdom · 8 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorWit.aiUnited States · 8 EU alternatives
Frequently asked questions
Which European AI vendors are there?
The knowledge base lists 29 European AI vendors, including Aleph Alpha, Black Forest Labs, DeepL and Dust. Every record is checked for headquarters, ultimate owner, hosting locations and licence.
Are there open-source options for AI?
Yes. Open-source AI software from Europe includes Dust, Haystack (deepset), Jina AI and Kern AI; you can self-host it with the encryption keys under your own control.