EU-friendly / sovereign LLM
Prefer EU vendor posture and data residency options for LLM APIs.
At a glance — Oct 2026
Updated 2026-10-27 · forward this page: /jtbds/eu-sovereign-llm#briefScores as of 2026-09-14 (43 days old; Depot marks scores stale after 30 days). The pick is still Depot's current editorial pick; it has not been re-reviewed since. Prices below carry their own dates.
- Depot Pick
- Mistral AI · 8.05/10 for this job (curated estimate, high confidence)
privacy + regions + maturity; capability tempered by sovereignty constraint.
- Runner-up
- Scaleway Generative APIs · 8.22/10
Scores higher than the pick on: Price / performance, Developer & agent DX, Privacy / data retention, Lock-in risk (higher = worse).
- When not to use the pick
- Need absolute frontier quality regardless of vendor HQ — Anthropic/OpenAI with EU regions/ZDR; need German Schwarz-cloud sovereignty — stackit-ai; Paris open-model serverless — scaleway-generative; Swiss public open-model API — infomaniak; need to run your own weights on PL/DE GPUs — cloudferro; need on-prem DACH PhariaOS and will wait 4–12 weeks — aleph-alpha.
- Lock-in / migration
- Runner-up Scaleway Generative APIs has lower stored lock-in risk (3.8 vs 4, 0–10, higher = more lock-in).
- Sourced price (usd_per_million_input_tokens)
Pick's lowest sourced SKU: Mistral Large $0.5 (usd_per_million_input_tokens) — source, as of 2026-10-03, re-checked 2026-10-27
Cheapest matching SKU: Anthropic Haiku 5.5 (prompts up to 100K tokens) $0.1 — source, as of 2026-10-27, re-checked 2026-10-27. Not the pick; not quality-adjusted.
Price history: first seen 2026-10-21 · last changed no change recorded · history JSON
- Free option
- Mistral Studio free mode (free tier unspecified) — source, as of 2026-10-24
- Failure modes to watch
- Runaway spend: Set a budget and a tool-call cap per task. Alert when spend jumps. Stop the run at the cap instead of summarizing a partial trace as success.
Same-job, same-unit comparisons: Mistral AI vs Anthropic
Cite: Agent Provider Depot, Depot Pick for eu-sovereign-llm: mistral, scores as of 2026-09-14. Agents: GET /api/decide?jtbd=eu-sovereign-llm
Free EU-friendly / sovereign LLM options · All sourced prices, cheapest first
Mistral AI
privacy + regions + maturity; capability tempered by sovereignty constraint.
Pricing (directional): La Plateforme API; mix of open and commercial models; EU-friendly positioning; competitive mid-tier pricing.
Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.
Default EU-friendly LLM vendor. Pair with Mistral-hosted or self-host open weights when sovereignty matters.
Quote for EU-friendly / sovereign LLM
Depot Pick stays Mistral AI. Prices below are sourced SKU rows only (as of 2026-10-27). Input and output are not blended. GET /api/quote?jtbd=eu-sovereign-llm
Pick is not a price winner. mistral sourced input $/1M is 0.5; cheapest among candidates is anthropic at 0.1.
- Mistral Large usd_per_million_input_tokens $0.5 source as of 2026-10-03
- Mistral Large usd_per_million_output_tokens $1.5 source as of 2026-10-03
10 of 14 candidates have no sourced price row. 12 are excluded from the Input $/1M comparison (chat_completion_input). min sourced input SKU among candidates; not quality-adjusted
Runners-up
Scaleway Generative APIs
Best-documented EU open-model serverless API after Mistral. Use when you want Paris residency + published €…
IONOS AI Model Hub
Strong Germany-sovereign open-model peer beside Scaleway/OVH/STACKIT. Mistral still default EU brand for…
T-Systems AI Foundation Services
Enterprise EU sovereign runner when Telekom procurement wins RFPs. Not a Depot default for startups — use…
OVHcloud AI Endpoints
Strong EU budget open-model alternative. Mistral remains the EU product default; OVH when price + French…
STACKIT AI Model Serving
Yes, STACKIT is real. Choose for German data-sovereignty RFPs. Not an indie default — onboarding friction is…
Infomaniak AI
Fill the Swiss sovereign hole. Mistral remains Depot EU LLM default; Infomaniak when the RFP says Switzerland…
Aleph Alpha (PhariaAI)
Catalog for DACH/public-sector RFPs only. Depot EU default remains Mistral; OVH/Scaleway/STACKIT for…
CloudFerro
EU public-cloud GPU when Infomaniak/Mistral APIs are not enough and you must run weights in PL/DE…
When NOT to use the top pick
Need absolute frontier quality regardless of vendor HQ — Anthropic/OpenAI with EU regions/ZDR; need German Schwarz-cloud sovereignty — stackit-ai; Paris open-model serverless — scaleway-generative; Swiss public open-model API — infomaniak; need to run your own weights on PL/DE GPUs — cloudferro; need on-prem DACH PhariaOS and will wait 4–12 weeks — aleph-alpha.
Full ranking (score table)
Ranked with this JTBD's weights. Scores are curated estimates unless marked otherwise. Agents: prefer /api/decide then this table for tie-breaks.
| # | Provider | Overall | Fit | $/perf | Latency | DX | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic | 8.4 | 9.7 | 6.8 | 8.7 | 9.2 | 2026-10-19 |
| 2 | Scaleway Generative APIs | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 3 | Infomaniak AI | 8.2 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 4 | IONOS AI Model Hub | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 5 | Mistral AIDepot Pick | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 6 | Gcore | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 7.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 7 | Cohere | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 7.8 | 2026-10-19 |
| 8 | Hyperstack | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 9 | Hugging Face Inference | 7.9 | 8.4 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 8.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 10 | OVHcloud AI Endpoints | 7.9 | 7.2 | 8.8 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 11 | STACKIT AI Model Serving | 7.7 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 6.5 | 2026-09-14 |
| 12 | CloudFerro | 7.7 | 7.2 | 5.8 | 8.4 | 6.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 13 | T-Systems AI Foundation Services | 7.7 | 8.0 | 5.5 | 8.2 | 6.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 14 | Aleph Alpha (PhariaAI) | 7.0 | 7.2 | 4.5 | 8.0 | 5.5 | 2026-09-14 |
Score methodology for this job
privacy + regions + maturity; capability tempered by sovereignty constraint.
capabilityFit: 20%pricePerformance: 12%latencyReliability: 12%developerDx: 12%privacyPosture: 25%lockInRisk: 9%maturity: 10%