EU First

The open-source directory of EU-sovereign AI tools

A curated list of AI tools built, hosted, and governed within the EU.
Verified for origin. Organized by category. Community-maintained.

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Currently tracking: 50+ tools across 16 categories

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Why This List Exists

US cloud providers hold 85% of the European cloud market. Over 74% of European companies depend on US-based services for critical operations. Under the US CLOUD Act, American authorities can compel access to data stored by US companies — even when that data sits on EU soil.

The EU AI Act enforcement begins August 2, 2026. European companies adopting AI need to know which tools are built, hosted, and governed within EU jurisdiction — not just which ones claim GDPR compliance on a landing page.

This list brings those tools together in one place. Every entry is verified for EU origin.

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Contents

• LLMs & Foundation Models
• Sovereign National LLMs
• AI Chat & Assistants
• Cloud & GPU Infrastructure
• Vector Databases
• AI Dev Tools & MLOps
• AI-Powered Productivity
• Translation & NLP
• Search Engines
• Secure Communication
• Privacy-First Analytics
• Self-Hosted AI Stack
• AI for Healthcare
• AI for Finance
• AI for Legal
• AI for HR & Recruitment
• AI for Security & Compliance
• EU AI Act Resources
• EU Digital Sovereignty Resources
• Contributing

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Legend

Symbol	Meaning
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇫🇮 🇪🇪 🇵🇱 🇦🇹 🇱🇻 🇨🇭 🇱🇺 🇵🇹 🇩🇰 🇨🇾	Country of headquarters
OSS	Open-source code available
FREE	Free tier or free plan available
API	Programmatic API access
SELF-HOST	Can run on your own EU infrastructure
GOV	Government-backed or publicly funded initiative

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LLMs & Foundation Models

EU-headquartered companies building or providing large language models.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Mistral AI	🇫🇷 France	Frontier open-weight and commercial LLMs. Mistral Large, Mixtral, Mistral 7B. EU-hosted API via Le Plateforme	OSS FREE API
Aleph Alpha	🇩🇪 Germany	Enterprise LLMs (Luminous, PhariaAI). Strong public sector and regulated industry focus. On-premise deployment available	API
LightOn	🇫🇷 France	Private LLMs for sensitive and confidential data. On-premise or dedicated EU cloud. Built for organizations that cannot expose internal data to external APIs	API SELF-HOST
Bloom	🇫🇷 France	176B parameter open-access multilingual LLM. Trained on 46 languages by the BigScience research collective	OSS FREE
Tilde	🇱🇻 Latvia	30B+ parameter LLM designed for Baltic and Eastern European languages. Strong on underserved EU languages	OSS
LLaMA on EU infra	Self-host 🇪🇺	Meta's open-weight models deployed on Hetzner, OVH, or Scaleway. Not EU-made, but fully EU-controllable when self-hosted	OSS SELF-HOST

🏛 AI Act note: LLMs are classified as General Purpose AI (GPAI). Providers must comply with transparency and documentation requirements — active since August 2025.

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Sovereign National LLMs

Government-backed AI models built for national language preservation and digital sovereignty. A growing trend across Europe — these models are designed to serve public sector, education, and domestic industry.

Model	Country	What it does	Tags
SOOFI	🇩🇪 Germany	Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models. German government initiative backed by Deutsche Telekom and Leibniz University Hannover. Advanced open-source AI for robotics, administration, and industry	OSS GOV
PLLuM	🇵🇱 Poland	Polish Large Language Model. Government-launched, tailored for Polish language inflection and complex syntax. Designed for text generation, document summarization, and education	OSS GOV
Apertus	🇨🇭 Switzerland	Swiss AI Initiative model. Available on Public AI platform. Exploring domain-specific models for law, climate, health, and education	OSS GOV
Amalia	🇵🇹 Portugal	Portuguese sovereign AI by consortium of universities. Answers questions, generates code, explains concepts, summarizes text in Portuguese with local context. Public release expected mid-2026	OSS GOV
EuroHPC AI	🇪🇺 EU	EU's public supercomputing initiative providing compute for AI research and sovereign model training across European research centers	GOV

💡 Why this matters: These models represent a shift from depending on US-built AI to building European AI capabilities from the ground up. They prioritize local languages, cultural context, and public-sector use cases that commercial LLMs often ignore.

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AI Chat & Assistants

EU-hosted alternatives to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Le Chat	🇫🇷 France	Mistral's consumer AI assistant. Web search, code generation, image understanding. Free, EU-hosted	FREE
HuggingChat	🇫🇷 France	Open-source chat interface with multiple model options. Runs on HuggingFace's EU infrastructure	OSS FREE
TextCortex	🇩🇪 Germany	AI writing and productivity assistant for business. Browser extension, API, integrations	FREE API

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Cloud & GPU Infrastructure

EU-headquartered providers for hosting AI workloads. No US hyperscalers.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Hetzner Cloud	🇩🇪 Germany	High-performance VPS and dedicated servers with GPU options. Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Falkenstein, Helsinki. Exceptional price-to-performance	API
OVHcloud	🇫🇷 France	Major EU cloud with AI-specific GPU offerings (NVIDIA H100, A100). 40+ data centers globally, strong EU presence	API
Scaleway	🇫🇷 France	Developer-friendly cloud with GPU instances (H100, L40S). Paris and Amsterdam	API
IONOS	🇩🇪 Germany	Cloud & hosting by United Internet group. Strong SMB and Mittelstand focus. German data centers only	API
UpCloud	🇫🇮 Finland	High-performance cloud. Helsinki, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid, Warsaw	API
Exoscale	🇨🇭 Switzerland	European cloud with GPU compute. Swiss privacy jurisdiction. Zurich, Vienna, Frankfurt, Munich	API
STACKIT	🇩🇪 Germany	Sovereign cloud by Schwarz Group (Lidl/Kaufland parent company). Fully German-owned. German data centers	API
T-Systems Open Telekom Cloud	🇩🇪 Germany	Enterprise cloud by Deutsche Telekom. Sovereign cloud for regulated industries. EU data residency guaranteed	API
Fuga Cloud	🇳🇱 Netherlands	OpenStack-based cloud. Amsterdam data center. Dutch-owned	API
Gcore	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	Edge cloud, CDN, and AI inference. EU-headquartered. Strong edge network across Europe	API
Infomaniak	🇨🇭 Switzerland	Swiss cloud and hosting. Runs on 100% renewable energy. Privacy-first approach	API

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Vector Databases

EU-built databases for AI embeddings, semantic search, and RAG applications.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Qdrant	🇩🇪 Germany	High-performance vector database written in Rust. Built for production AI applications at scale	OSS FREE API SELF-HOST
Weaviate	🇳🇱 Netherlands	AI-native vector database with built-in vectorization, hybrid search, and generative modules	OSS FREE API SELF-HOST

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AI Dev Tools & MLOps

EU-built tools for developing, training, deploying, and monitoring AI systems.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Hugging Face	🇫🇷 France	The largest open-source ML platform. Model hub, datasets, Spaces, inference API. EU-headquartered in Paris	OSS FREE API
Jina AI	🇩🇪 Germany	Embedding, reranking, and search APIs. Multi-modal AI infrastructure for search and retrieval	FREE API
Neptune.ai	🇵🇱 Poland	ML experiment tracking, model registry, and metadata management	FREE API
Valohai	🇫🇮 Finland	ML pipeline orchestration. Automates training, evaluation, and deployment workflows	API
Dataiku	🇫🇷 France	End-to-end AI/ML platform. Data preparation, model building, MLOps, and AI governance in one	FREE API

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AI-Powered Productivity

EU-built AI tools for documents, collaboration, and daily work.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
DeepL	🇩🇪 Germany	AI translation and writing assistant. Consistently outperforms Google Translate on European languages. Translation API + DeepL Write for grammar and style	FREE API
Nextcloud	🇩🇪 Germany	Self-hosted collaboration platform with AI features — smart inbox, text generation, image recognition, assistant	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
CryptPad	🇫🇷 France	End-to-end encrypted docs, spreadsheets, presentations, kanban. Zero-knowledge architecture	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
AppFlowy	Community	Open-source Notion alternative. Self-hostable. AI features in development	OSS FREE SELF-HOST

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Translation & NLP

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Tilde MT	🇱🇻 Latvia	Machine translation specializing in Baltic and lesser-resourced EU languages	API
Lingvanex	🇨🇾 Cyprus	Translation API with on-premise deployment option. 100+ languages	API SELF-HOST

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Search Engines

EU-based search engines with AI features and no tracking.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Qwant	🇫🇷 France	Privacy-first search engine. Own index. No profiling. No tracking. EU jurisdiction	FREE
Ecosia	🇩🇪 Germany	Privacy search engine that plants trees with ad revenue. Co-building an EU web index with Qwant	FREE
Stract	🇩🇰 Denmark	Open-source search engine with user-configurable ranking. No tracking	OSS FREE

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Secure Communication

EU-built messaging and communication tools with strong encryption.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Element / Matrix	🇬🇧 UK / 🇫🇷 France	Decentralized messaging on the Matrix protocol. End-to-end encrypted. Used by French and German governments	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
Wire	🇩🇪 Germany / 🇨🇭 Switzerland	End-to-end encrypted messaging, calls, and file sharing. Used by German federal government	OSS FREE
Threema	🇨🇭 Switzerland	Privacy-first messenger. No phone number required. Swiss-hosted	OSS
Proton Mail	🇨🇭 Switzerland	End-to-end encrypted email. Swiss privacy jurisdiction. No ads, no tracking	OSS FREE

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Privacy-First Analytics

Not AI-specific, but essential for deploying sovereign AI products in the EU.

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Plausible	🇪🇪 Estonia	Lightweight, cookie-free web analytics. EU-hosted. GDPR compliant without consent banners	OSS SELF-HOST
Umami	Self-hostable	Simple, fast, privacy-focused analytics. Deploy on any EU server	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
Matomo	🇳🇿 NZ origin	Full-featured analytics platform. Self-host on EU infrastructure for full sovereignty	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
Fathom	🇨🇦 CA origin	Privacy-first analytics with EU data isolation. EU-routed processing	FREE

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Self-Hosted AI Stack

Run AI on your own EU infrastructure for maximum sovereignty. Combine these with any EU cloud provider above.

Tool	Origin	What it does	Tags
Ollama	Community	Run LLMs locally with one command. Drop-in API compatible with OpenAI format	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
llama.cpp	Community	Run LLMs on CPU and low-end GPUs. GGUF format. Ideal for EU edge and on-premise deployment	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
vLLM	Community	High-throughput LLM serving engine. PagedAttention. Deploy on EU GPU servers	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
LocalAI	Community	OpenAI-compatible API that runs models locally. No internet required after download	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
Open WebUI	Community	Self-hosted ChatGPT-like interface. Works with Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API	OSS FREE SELF-HOST
LibreChat	Community	Multi-model AI chat interface. Self-host and connect to any LLM provider	OSS FREE SELF-HOST

💡 Sovereignty tip: Self-hosting open-source models on EU infrastructure (Hetzner, OVH, Scaleway) gives you maximum data sovereignty. Your data never leaves your server, and no US entity has legal jurisdiction over it.

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AI for Healthcare

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Ada Health	🇩🇪 Germany	AI-powered symptom assessment and clinical decision support	FREE

🏛 AI Act note: AI in healthcare is classified as high-risk under Annex III. Strict requirements for accuracy, transparency, human oversight, and post-market monitoring apply from August 2026.

Know an EU healthcare AI tool? Open an issue →

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AI for Finance

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Contributions welcome		EU-built AI for credit scoring, fraud detection, risk assessment, AML

🏛 AI Act note: AI used in credit scoring, insurance pricing, and financial risk assessment is high-risk under Annex III. These systems must also comply with DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) requirements for third-party ICT risk management.

Know an EU financial AI tool? Open an issue →

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AI for Legal

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Contributions welcome		EU-built AI for contract analysis, legal research, case prediction

Know an EU legal AI tool? Open an issue →

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AI for HR & Recruitment

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
Contributions welcome		EU-built AI for CV screening, candidate matching, performance evaluation

🏛 AI Act note: AI used in recruitment, CV screening, promotion decisions, and employee evaluation is high-risk under Annex III. These are among the most scrutinized categories. Fines for non-compliance: up to €35M or 7% of global turnover.

Know an EU HR AI tool? Open an issue →

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AI for Security & Compliance

Tool	Country	What it does	Tags
BitAtlas	🇳🇱 Netherlands	Zero-knowledge encrypted cloud drive for humans and AI agents. Client-side AES-256-GCM encryption — the server never sees plaintext. MCP server for AI agent integration. Hosted on Hetzner (Germany)	OSS FREE API SELF-HOST

Know an EU security AI tool? Open an issue →

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EU AI Act Resources

⏰ Key Dates

Date	Status	What happens
Feb 2, 2025	✅ Done	Prohibited AI practices banned (social scoring, manipulative AI, emotion recognition at work)
Aug 2, 2025	✅ Done	GPAI transparency rules active. Providers must publish training data summaries
Aug 2, 2026	⏳ Coming	High-risk AI system rules activate. Transparency obligations (Art. 50). National enforcement begins. Regulatory sandboxes operational
Aug 2, 2027	Upcoming	Remaining provisions. High-risk AI in regulated products (medical devices, vehicles)

Official Sources

• EU AI Act — Full Official Text — EUR-Lex
• AI Act Service Desk — European Commission's official guidance portal
• AI Act Compliance Checker — Official tool to check your obligations
• AI Act Explorer — Searchable text with independent analysis
• GPAI Code of Practice — Voluntary compliance framework for GPAI providers
• EU AI Act Implementation Timeline — All milestones
• IAPP Compliance Matrix — Requirements overview by role

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EU Digital Sovereignty Resources

Key Reports

• Atlantic Council: Digital Sovereignty — Europe's Declaration of Independence (Feb 2026)
• Bertelsmann Stiftung: EuroStack Report — €300B proposal for EU digital infrastructure
• Wire: State of Digital Sovereignty in Europe 2025 — Survey of 270+ EU tech and policy leaders
• Berlin Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty (Nov 2025) — Signed by all 27 EU member states

Other Directories

• European Alternatives — General EU software and services directory
• EU Alternative — EU SaaS alternatives
• GoEuropean — Community-driven EU product directory with browser extension
• Switch-to.eu — EU tech swap recommendations

Communities

• r/eufirst — EU-sovereign AI tools and AI Act compliance
• r/buyeu — EU-made products and services
• r/eufounders — EU founders building sovereign tech
• r/BuyFromEU — The original EU buying movement (122k+ members)
• r/europrivacy — European privacy and data protection
• r/selfhosted — Self-hosting community (relevant for sovereign deployment)

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome and encouraged. This list grows through the community.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines, inclusion criteria, and style guide.

Quick contribution

Easiest: Open an issue with the tool name, website, country of HQ, and a short description. We'll add it.

Faster: Submit a pull request editing this README directly.

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About

This list is maintained as an independent, community-driven project to help Europeans find AI tools they can trust.

We evaluate tools on 5 sovereignty criteria:

Criterion	What we check
HQ Location	Is the company headquartered in the EU?
Data Centers	Is data processed exclusively in the EU?
Legal Jurisdiction	Is the service governed by EU law?
GDPR Compliance	Is there audited/certified GDPR compliance?
AI Act Readiness	Is the company actively preparing for AI Act compliance?

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Star History

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License

This work is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. You can copy, modify, and distribute it without asking permission.