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MAI Thinking 1 alternatives for the EU.

MAI Thinking 1 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 Thinking 1 compared with 8 alternatives: EU status, pricing, licence and release date
ToolEU statusPricingOpen sourceReleasedMentions
MAI Thinking 1 (this)UnverifiedAPI pricingNon/a1
OpenAI o1Available in EUAPI pricingNo12 Sept 20241
Agents A1Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1
Ling-3.1-flashAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo13 Oct 20261
Instella MoEAvailable in EUOpen sourceYesn/a1
Mistral Large 4Available in EUAPI pricingNon/a3
DeepSeek R1Available in EUOpen sourceNo20 Jan 20252
Reflection BeamAvailable in EUAPI pricingNon/a1
GPT-OSSAvailable in EUOpen sourceYes5 Aug 20251

The alternatives, closest match first

  1. 01OO

    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
  2. 02AA

    Agents A1

    Model

    35B Mixture-of-Experts open-weights model from InternScience for long-horizon agentic search, engineering and tool use.

    Available in EUOpen source9:03
  3. 03LI

    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
  4. 04IM

    Instella MoE

    Model · AMD

    AMD's fully open 16B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model with 2.8B active parameters, trained on Instinct GPUs.

    By AMD. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen sourceOpen source9:14
  5. 05ML

    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
  6. 06DR

    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
  7. 07RB

    Reflection Beam

    Model · Reflection AI

    Reflection AI's 501B-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model for coding, reasoning and agentic workloads.

    By Reflection AI. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUAPI pricing25:26
  8. 08GP

    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

Frequently asked

Is MAI Thinking 1 available in the EU?
MAI Thinking 1 has no verified EU status yet. No explicit evidence found. The model is reportedly in private preview in Microsoft Foundry, and no regional availability information was provided.
What is the best alternative to MAI Thinking 1 in the EU?
OpenAI o1 by OpenAI is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). OpenAI's first reasoning model series, trained with reinforcement learning to think before answering; now deprecated in the 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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