Botanic 1 alternatives for the EU.
Botanic 1 by Google DeepMind has no verified EU status yet. Here are 8 similar tools in the same space, 8 of them verified available.
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At a glance
| Tool | EU status | Pricing | Open source | Released | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botanic 1 (this) | Unverified | Pricing unknown | Unknown | n/a | 1 |
| Gemma | Available in EU | Open source | No | Feb 2024 | 2 |
| Carbon-X | Available in EU | Open source | No | 21 Oct 2026 | 1 |
| ZGCM-1 | Available in EU | Open source | Yes | Sept 2026 | 1 |
| Gemma 4 12B | Available in EU | Open source | No | n/a | 2 |
| Gemma 3 12B | Available in EU | Open source | No | 12 Mar 2025 | 1 |
| Sage A1.5 | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | n/a | 1 |
| OpenAI o1 | Available in EU | API pricing | No | 12 Sept 2024 | 1 |
| Big Bang v1 | Available in EU | Open source | Yes | Aug 2026 | 1 |
The alternatives, closest match first
Google DeepMind's family of open-weights models built from Gemini technology, from phone-sized to laptop-class variants.
By Google. 2 mentions in creator videos.
Open 14.8B language model from Hugging Face that reads raw DNA in chat and answers in English, built on Qwen3-14B.
By Hugging Face. 1 mention in creator videos.
Open 7.39B dense model for math reasoning and agentic search, with a 256K context and the full training pipeline released.
Google's open-weights 12B encoder-free multimodal model in the Gemma 4 family, taking text, image and audio input.
By Google. 2 mentions in creator videos.
Google's open-weights 12B multimodal (text and image input) instruction-tuned model from the Gemma 3 family.
By Google. 1 mention in creator videos.
35B mixture-of-experts open-weights agentic model for engineering, long-horizon search and scientific research.
By Alpha Innovator. 1 mention in creator videos.
OpenAI's first reasoning model series, trained with reinforcement learning to think before answering; now deprecated in the API.
By OpenAI. 1 mention in creator videos.
Open-weights 35B-A3B agentic model post-trained from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B for search, coding and scientific research.
Frequently asked
- Is Botanic 1 available in the EU?
- Botanic 1 has no verified EU status yet. No explicit evidence found. The developer, Living Models, is Paris-based and collaborates with INRAE, but no public availability terms or regional restrictions are given.
- What is the best alternative to Botanic 1 in the EU?
- Gemma by Google is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). Google DeepMind's family of open-weights models built from Gemini technology, from phone-sized to laptop-class variants.
- 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.
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