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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.
Aliteq Team · · 12 min
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.
Aliteq Team · · 14 min
France pledged €109B for AI, hosted a landmark Paris summit, and built a champion in Mistral. The honest look at its 'sovereign AI' strategy — what's genuinely working, and where 'stratospheric growth' is still just a slogan.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
A French startup barely a year old raised €600M at a $6B valuation — then multiplied it several times over. The honest story of Mistral, Europe's answer to OpenAI, and why its open-model, sovereign-AI bet matters.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
Mistral's models are famously efficient — they punch above their size, so you get a lot on modest hardware. Here's how to run Mistral locally in one command, by size.
Aliteq Team · · 10 min