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MAI Base 2 alternatives for the EU.

MAI Base 2 by Microsoft 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

MAI Base 2 compared with 8 alternatives: EU status, pricing, licence and release date
ToolEU statusPricingOpen sourceReleasedMentions
MAI Base 2 (this)UnverifiedPricing unknownNon/a1
ERNIE 5.5 FlashAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknown5 Nov 20261
LFM2.5-24B-A2BAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo13 Oct 20261
Mistral Large 4Available in EUAPI pricingNon/a3
Cisco Foundation AI security modelsAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo28 Apr 20251
Qwen 3.8 MaxAvailable in EUOpen sourceNon/a8
Qwen 2.5 0.5BAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo15 Sept 20241
LFM3Available in EUOpen sourceNo27 Oct 20262
LongCat 2.0Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1

The alternatives, closest match first

  1. 01E5

    ERNIE 5.5 Flash

    Model · Baidu

    Baidu's open-weights 280B-parameter sparse MoE base model (14B active) with 1M-token context, released pre-post-training.

    By Baidu. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source5 Nov 202638:40
  2. 02LF

    LFM2.5-24B-A2B

    Model · Liquid AI

    Liquid AI's 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts LFM with 2B active parameters, built for fast on-device agents.

    By Liquid AI. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source13 Oct 202637:45
  3. 03ML

    Mistral Large 4

    Model · Mistral

    Mistral's roughly 1-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with open weights, trained in Europe.

    By Mistral. 3 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUAPI pricing28:37
  4. 04CF

    Cisco Foundation AI security models

    Model · Cisco

    Cisco Foundation AI's open-weight 8B cybersecurity language model built on Llama-3.1-8B, for local deployment.

    By Cisco. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source28 Apr 20250:41
  5. 05Q3

    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
  6. 06Q2

    Qwen 2.5 0.5B

    Model · Alibaba

    Small 0.5B-parameter open-weights base language model from Alibaba's Qwen2.5 series, Apache 2.0 licensed.

    By Alibaba. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source15 Sept 202431:25
  7. 07LF

    LFM3

    Model · Liquid AI

    Liquid AI's LFM3 family of small multimodal foundation models for on-device, edge and cloud use.

    By Liquid AI. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source27 Oct 202616:20
  8. 08L2

    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

Frequently asked

Is MAI Base 2 available in the EU?
MAI Base 2 has no verified EU status yet. No explicit evidence found. The model is reportedly not yet publicly available, so no regional availability information exists.
What is the best alternative to MAI Base 2 in the EU?
ERNIE 5.5 Flash by Baidu is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). Baidu's open-weights 280B-parameter sparse MoE base model (14B active) with 1M-token context, released pre-post-training.
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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