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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