DeepSeek alternatives for the EU.
DeepSeek by DeepSeek 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek (this) | Unverified | Freemium | Unknown | n/a | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | Available in EU | API pricing | Unknown | n/a | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | n/a | 10 |
| DeepSeek R1 | Available in EU | Open source | No | 20 Jan 2025 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental | Available in EU | Open source | No | 31 Aug 2026 | 2 |
| GPT-OSS | Available in EU | Open source | Yes | 5 Aug 2025 | 1 |
| Ling-3.1-flash | Available in EU | Open source | No | 13 Oct 2026 | 1 |
| OpenAI o1 | Available in EU | API pricing | No | 12 Sept 2024 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 | Available in EU | API pricing | No | n/a | 2 |
The alternatives, closest match first
Open-weights Flash-tier model in DeepSeek's V4 family, offered via chat and a low-cost API.
By DeepSeek. 2 mentions in creator videos.
Open-weights multimodal DeepSeek model in the V4 family, offered via API, chat and downloadable weights.
By DeepSeek. 10 mentions in creator videos.
DeepSeek's open-weights reasoning LLM (671B MoE, 37B active) trained with large-scale reinforcement learning.
By DeepSeek. 2 mentions in creator videos.
Experimental vision-enabled version of DeepSeek V4 Flash with image understanding; open weights under MIT, now retired on the API.
By DeepSeek. 2 mentions in creator videos.
OpenAI's open-weight reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, released under Apache 2.0.
By OpenAI. 1 mention in creator videos.
Open-weights 560B hybrid-linear MoE reasoning model (25B active, 1M context) from inclusionAI, MIT licensed.
By inclusionAI. 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.
OpenAI frontier language model used for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks, available via ChatGPT and the API.
By OpenAI. 2 mentions in creator videos.
Frequently asked
- Is DeepSeek available in the EU?
- DeepSeek has no verified EU status yet. No explicit evidence found in the fetched pages. Open weights can be downloaded and self-hosted anywhere, but the hosted service's EU availability and data handling were not verified here.
- What is the best alternative to DeepSeek in the EU?
- DeepSeek V4 Flash by DeepSeek is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). Open-weights Flash-tier model in DeepSeek's V4 family, offered via chat and a low-cost API.
- 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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