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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

DeepSeek compared with 8 alternatives: EU status, pricing, licence and release date
ToolEU statusPricingOpen sourceReleasedMentions
DeepSeek (this)UnverifiedFreemiumUnknownn/a1
DeepSeek V4 FlashAvailable in EUAPI pricingUnknownn/a2
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a10
DeepSeek R1Available in EUOpen sourceNo20 Jan 20252
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExperimentalAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo31 Aug 20262
GPT-OSSAvailable in EUOpen sourceYes5 Aug 20251
Ling-3.1-flashAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo13 Oct 20261
OpenAI o1Available in EUAPI pricingNo12 Sept 20241
GPT-5.4Available in EUAPI pricingNon/a2

The alternatives, closest match first

  1. 01DV

    DeepSeek V4 Flash

    Model · DeepSeek

    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.

    Available in EUAPI pricing2:56
  2. 02DV

    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

    Model · DeepSeek

    Open-weights multimodal DeepSeek model in the V4 family, offered via API, chat and downloadable weights.

    By DeepSeek. 10 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source21:35
  3. 03DR

    DeepSeek R1

    Model · DeepSeek

    DeepSeek's open-weights reasoning LLM (671B MoE, 37B active) trained with large-scale reinforcement learning.

    By DeepSeek. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source20 Jan 202546:10
  4. 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.

    Available in EUOpen source31 Aug 20269:56
  5. 05GP

    GPT-OSS

    Model · OpenAI

    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.

    Available in EUOpen sourceOpen source5 Aug 202518:00
  6. 06LI

    Ling-3.1-flash

    Model · inclusionAI

    Open-weights 560B hybrid-linear MoE reasoning model (25B active, 1M context) from inclusionAI, MIT licensed.

    By inclusionAI. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source13 Oct 202637:10
  7. 07OO

    OpenAI o1

    Model · OpenAI

    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.

    Available in EUAPI pricing12 Sept 202444:40
  8. 08GP

    GPT-5.4

    Model · OpenAI

    OpenAI frontier language model used for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks, available via ChatGPT and the API.

    By OpenAI. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUAPI pricing5:28

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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