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AREX-2 alternatives for the EU.

AREX-2 by BAAI is available in the EU. Here are 8 similar tools in the same space, 8 of them verified available.

Available in EUUpdated

At a glance

AREX-2 compared with 8 alternatives: EU status, pricing, licence and release date
ToolEU statusPricingOpen sourceReleasedMentions
AREX-2 (this)Available in EUOpen sourceNo29 Sept 20261
Agents A1Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1
LongCat 2.0Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1
Nex N2Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1
Qwen 3.8 MaxAvailable in EUOpen sourceNon/a8
IQuest Q1Available in EUOpen sourceUnknown28 Sept 20261
Big Bang v1Available in EUOpen sourceYesAug 20261
LongCat 2.5Available in EUOpen sourceNo4 Nov 20262
GLM 5.3Available in EUOpen sourceNoAug 20268

The alternatives, closest match first

  1. 01AA

    Agents A1

    Model

    35B Mixture-of-Experts open-weights model from InternScience for long-horizon agentic search, engineering and tool use.

    Available in EUOpen source9:03
  2. 02L2

    LongCat 2.0

    Model · Meituan

    Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter mixture-of-experts LLM (48B active), aimed at agentic coding and reasoning tasks.

    By Meituan. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source2:33
  3. 03NN

    Nex N2

    Model · Nex AGI

    Open agentic model family from Nex AGI for computer use, coding and long-horizon tool tasks, in several sizes.

    By Nex AGI. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source23:00
  4. 04Q3

    Qwen 3.8 Max

    Model · Alibaba

    Alibaba's open-weights 2.4T-parameter MoE language model (95B active) from the Qwen3.8 family, with a hosted Max version.

    By Alibaba. 8 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source30:12
  5. 05IQ

    IQuest Q1

    Model · IQuest Lab

    320B-parameter MoE model (15B active) from IQuest for agentic coding and tool use, with 512K context.

    By IQuest Lab. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source28 Sept 202637:48
  6. 06BB

    Big Bang v1

    Model

    Open-weights 35B-A3B agentic model post-trained from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B for search, coding and scientific research.

    Available in EUOpen sourceOpen sourceAug 202625:44
  7. 07L2

    LongCat 2.5

    Model · Meituan

    Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter multimodal MoE model (48B active) for agentic coding and visual tasks.

    By Meituan. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source4 Nov 20269:58
  8. 08G5

    GLM 5.3

    Model · Z.ai

    Z.ai's open-weights 753B MoE language model, a post-trained GLM-5.2 aimed at coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity.

    By Z.ai. 8 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen sourceAug 20260:58

Frequently asked

Is AREX-2 available in the EU?
AREX-2 is available in the EU. Weights are downloadable from Hugging Face under Apache-2.0, which has no geographic restrictions; no EU exclusion found.
What is the best alternative to AREX-2 in the EU?
Agents A1 is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). 35B Mixture-of-Experts open-weights model from InternScience for long-horizon agentic search, engineering and tool use.
How are these alternatives chosen?
We compare tools by meaning (embeddings of their descriptions), keep those in the same category, and show only tools whose EU status is available or limited. Closest match first.

More: AREX-2 details · Best Language Models tools in the EU · How we check EU status