European & open-source alternatives to Google Gemini
14 European and open-source alternatives to Google Gemini — privacy-friendly tools built and hosted in Europe.
Updated 8 Sep 2026 · refreshed weekly
ALIA
Spanish public AI infrastructure of open language models — the Salamandra family and ALIA-40B — trained from scratch on 35…

Apertus
Fully open Swiss large language model at 8B and 70B parameters, with training data, code, weights and alignment principles all…

BgGPT
First open large language model for Bulgarian, freely usable by public and private organisations, with a public chat interface…

Danish Foundation Models
Danish open language AI programme releasing the Munin model family plus the Dynaword open dataset framework, free for authorities…
Domyn
This platform provides custom AI solutions for businesses, enabling them to build, orchestrate, and manage AI within their…

EuroLLM
An open-source large language model (LLM) designed to support 24 official European languages and other strategically important…

GaMS
Generative model for Slovene in 1B to 27B sizes, openly downloadable for local installation, with a public chatbot at povejmo.si.

Lumo
A privacy-focused AI assistant that ensures chats remain confidential through zero-access encryption, without tracking or…

Meltemi
First open large language model for Greek, a 7B bilingual Greek-English model released under Apache 2.0 with an instruction-tuned…

Minerva
First family of large language models pretrained from scratch for Italian, from 350M to 7B parameters, with models and training…

NorMistral
Open Norwegian language models up to 11B parameters released under Apache 2.0 with commercial use allowed, matching or beating…

OpenEuroLLM
European foundation-model programme releasing open models together with their training data, code and evaluations, built for EU…

PLLuM
Polish large language model family for the public and private sector, released in 8B, 12B and 70B sizes in base, instruct and…

Teuken
Open-source 7B language model trained from scratch on all 24 official EU languages, released by the German OpenGPT-X research…