EU alternatives to DeepSeek

11 non-Chinese options for buyers in the European Union. See the DeepSeek profile.

Compare DeepSeek side by side with 3 of them →

Mistral AI
France
Alternative to Chinese LLMs

Open-weight models

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU-based vendor
  • ✓ EU data residency
Claude
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

AI assistant (Anthropic)

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU data residency
OpenAI
United States
Alternative to Chinese LLMs

GPT / o-series models

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU data residency
Llama
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

Open-weight model family for self-hosting

  • ⚠ Limited availability
  • ✓ Self-hostable
Muse Spark Open
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

Meta's 816B open-weight model (2026), trained by Meta, not built on a Chinese base model

  • 816B open weights
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ Self-hostable
Reflection Beam
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

Reflection AI's 501B open-weight model (2026), trained from scratch

  • 501B open weights, Apache 2.0
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ Self-hostable
NVIDIA Nemotron
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

NVIDIA's open models, up to the 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra, pretrained by NVIDIA

  • Up to 550B open weights
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ Self-hostable
Arcee Trinity Large
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

Arcee's 400B open-weight model, trained from scratch in the US

  • 400B open weights
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ Self-hostable
gpt-oss
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

OpenAI's Apache-licensed open-weight models (120B and 20B)

  • 120B and 20B open weights, Apache 2.0
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ Self-hostable
Gemma
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

Google's Apache-licensed open models, up to Gemma 4 31B

  • Up to 31B open weights, Apache 2.0
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ Self-hostable
Olmo
United States
Alternative to DeepSeek

Ai2's fully open models: weights, training data and code

  • 32B; open weights, data and code
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ Self-hostable