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EU Data Residency for AI APIs: What OpenAI, Azure, Bedrock, Vertex, Mistral and Claude Charge in 2026

Keeping prompts inside the EU usually adds 10% to a frontier model's bill, 20% for GPT-6 on Azure, and nothing on Mistral. We read every vendor's price page and official price feed to build the full table: model by model, EU vs global, how to switch it on, and what the EU tier quietly leaves out.

Tensor · 2h ago · 12 min

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Private LLM cost for EU companies (2026): EU API tiers vs open models vs your own GPU

Your company wants AI on internal documents without the prompts leaving the EU. We priced every route on the vendors' own pages: OpenAI's and Azure's EU tiers, Claude through AWS and Google, Mistral, French and German open-model APIs, and a GPU of your own. The EU premium is 0% to 75%, and for most companies the cheapest private option isn't a server.

Tensor · 2h ago · 14 min