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AI chatbot price comparison: every plan in euros
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Mistral Vibe and Union AI compared in euros, with and without VAT, for one person and for a team. Checked September 2026.
PricingEuropean infrastructure
European AI, open weights and what a token costs
Plain writing about running AI inside the European Union: where your prompts are processed, what open-weight models can and cannot do, and what per-token pricing works out at. Honest about the limits, including ours. The product itself is on the pricing page and in the API documentation.
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Best European AI chatbots in 2026, compared
The best European AI chatbots in 2026: Mistral Vibe, Proton Lumo, Infomaniak Euria, Langdock, HuggingChat and Union AI, with prices in euros and who each suits.
European infrastructurePricingOpen weights - 12 min read
CLOUD Act and EU data: does EU hosting protect you?
The US CLOUD Act reaches data a US company controls, even on EU servers. What that means for your AI prompts, FISA 702 and Schrems II, and what helps.
Data protectionComplianceEuropean infrastructure - 12 min read
Can you put customer data in an AI chatbot? GDPR check
Yes, if six GDPR checks pass: personal data, special categories, purpose, a processing agreement, transfers and retention. A step-by-step decision tree.
Data protectionCompliance - 10 min read
Safe European AI chatbot, hosted in the EU
A safe German, Dutch or French AI chatbot is a European one: inference inside the EU, the GDPR, answers in your language. €13 a month, 5 free messages.
European infrastructureData protection - 12 min read
European alternatives to Claude, Copilot and Gemini
A European alternative to Copilot, Claude or Gemini keeps everyday chat work in the EU. What carries over, what you lose, and where your data goes today.
European infrastructureData protectionCompliance - 12 min read
The European ChatGPT alternative: what you keep
Is there a European ChatGPT alternative? Yes. What carries over (chat, files, web search, memory, API), what you give up (voice, images) and what it costs.
European infrastructureData protectionPricing - 13 min read
GDPR-compliant AI chatbot: what to check before you buy
A GDPR-compliant AI chatbot for business needs a DPA, a subprocessor list, no training on inputs and a retention answer. The full vendor checklist.
Data protectionCompliance - 9 min read
Not allowed to use ChatGPT at work? 4 safe options
Not allowed to use ChatGPT at work? Why employers block ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and four safe ways to keep using AI at work without breaking the rules.
ComplianceData protection - 12 min read
Switch from ChatGPT: a team migration guide
How to switch your team from ChatGPT to a European AI: export history, move custom GPTs, update the policy, pilot, roll out and cancel without chaos.
European infrastructureCompliance - 8 min read
AI API pricing per token: what you actually pay
What a million tokens costs, why output is dearer than input, and when a flat subscription beats paying per token. With real euro prices, no asterisks.
PricingDevelopers - 9 min read
Where your prompts go: EU AI data residency
What EU AI data residency really means, why it is not the same as sovereignty, and how to check where an AI provider processes your prompts.
Data protectionEuropean infrastructure - 8 min read
European AI providers compared: how to choose
Four ways to buy AI in Europe, what each one costs and gives up, and the six questions that decide which fits your team. Including where we lose.
European infrastructurePricing - 8 min read
European sovereign AI: what it means in practice
Sovereign AI is four separate questions: the building, the operator, the weights and the values. What Europe can answer today, and what you can do this quarter.
European infrastructureOpen weightsData protection - 8 min read
Is ChatGPT GDPR compliant for company data?
Yes, conditionally. Which account tier, which clauses and which data decide it, plus a one-page AI usage policy your team can actually follow.
Data protectionCompliance - 8 min read
OpenAI-compatible API: switching in three lines
What OpenAI-compatible really means, the three lines that move your app to a European API, and an honest list of what does not port across.
DevelopersOpen weights
Frequently asked questions
The short answers. Each one is worked through properly in one of the posts above, or on subprocessors and AI transparency.
What is an open-weight model?
An open-weight model is one whose trained parameters are published, usually under a licence such as Apache 2.0 or MIT, so anyone can download it and run it on their own infrastructure. It is not the same as open source: most open-weight releases do not publish the training data or the training code.
Which AI models can run inside the European Union?
Any open-weight model, because weights are a file and the hardware decides the geography. That is why an American or Chinese open-weight model can be served entirely from European infrastructure, and why the origin of the weights and the location of the processing are two separate questions.
When does self-hosting an LLM become cheaper than an API?
When your load is high and steady enough to keep a GPU busy. A per-token bill scales down to nothing when traffic is quiet, while a rented GPU costs the same overnight, so the comparison is a month of real token spend against the monthly price of the smallest instance that can serve your model, plus the person who maintains it. Most teams reach that crossover later than they expect.
Does the EU AI Act apply to my company?
Probably, but usually in its lightest form. Most companies are deployers rather than providers, and the duty that reaches them first is transparency: telling people when they are interacting with an AI system, which has applied since 2 August 2026. Heavier obligations attach to high-risk uses such as recruitment, and they phase in later.
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