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… Aliteq Tensor · Local AI & Automation Editor

An EU company can keep AI prompts inside the EU for between about $29 and $763 a month at 10 million tokens a workday, depending on the model. An open model such as gpt-oss-120b through an EU API…

Cheapest private route: an open model on an EU API, from $2.90 a month at 1M tokens a day

Frontier models in the EU: +10% at OpenAI, Bedrock and Vertex, +20% for GPT-6 on Azure; no EU option on Claude's own API

Your own GPU: a data-control choice, not a saving, at most small-company volumes

GDPR doesn't require EU hosting; it requires a processor contract and a lawful basis for any transfer

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