ERNIE 5.5 Flash alternatives for the EU.
ERNIE 5.5 Flash by Baidu 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
| Tool | EU status | Pricing | Open source | Released | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERNIE 5.5 Flash (this) | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | 5 Nov 2026 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | n/a | 2 |
| Ling-3.1-flash | Available in EU | Open source | No | 13 Oct 2026 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.8 Max | Available in EU | Open source | No | n/a | 8 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash Santé | Available in EU | Open source | No | 19 Oct 2026 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | Available in EU | API pricing | Unknown | n/a | 2 |
| GLM 5.3 | Available in EU | Open source | No | Aug 2026 | 8 |
| MiniMax M3 | Available in EU | Open source | No | 2 Jun 2026 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | n/a | 10 |
The alternatives, closest match first
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Flash Next: a 125B-parameter MoE language model with about 6B active parameters, previewing Qwen 4 design.
By Alibaba. 2 mentions 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.
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.
Open-weights 124B MoE healthcare model (5.1B active) from inclusionAI, specialized from Ling-3.0-flash.
By inclusionAI. 1 mention in creator videos.
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.
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.
Open-weights native multimodal MoE model from MiniMax, ~428B parameters (~23B active) with 1M-token context.
By MiniMax. 4 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.
Frequently asked
- Is ERNIE 5.5 Flash available in the EU?
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash is available in the EU. Open weights are released publicly for download, and no EU exclusion was found in the provided material; the license text was not seen, so this is inferred from the open release.
- What is the best alternative to ERNIE 5.5 Flash in the EU?
- Qwen 3.8 Flash Next by Alibaba is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Flash Next: a 125B-parameter MoE language model with about 6B active parameters, previewing Qwen 4 design.
- 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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