Ideal für: EU Data Residency

Best LLM for EU Data Residency

Ranked on EU-region availability, GDPR posture, and price. European customers with data-residency requirements first.

Aktualisiert April 2026. Top 3 diesen Monat: R1 0528, Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15, DeepSeek V3.

Podium

This month’s top three.

  • 1
    R1 0528
    DeepSeek
    Input / 1M
    $0.50
    Output / 1M
    $2.15
    Context
    163,840
    Model page
  • 2
    Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
    Qwen
    Input / 1M
    $0.26
    Output / 1M
    $1.56
    Context
    1,000,000
    Model page
  • 3
    DeepSeek V3
    DeepSeek
    Input / 1M
    $0.32
    Output / 1M
    $0.89
    Context
    163,840
    Model page

So werten wir

Weights tuned for eu data residency.

Many EU enterprise buyers have contractual data-residency requirements that rule out models without an EU region. We rank based on availability of EU-hosted inference endpoints, GDPR SCCs, and price. Model quality matters but residency is the gating criterion.

Our full methodology is published on the Methodik-Seite.

Säulen und Gewichte:

  • EU residency50%
  • GDPR20%
  • MMLU15%
  • price15%

Full ranking

Top-Modelle

RangModellAnbieterInput $/1MOutput $/1MKontext
1R1 0528DeepSeek$0.50$2.15163,840
2Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Qwen$0.26$1.561,000,000
3DeepSeek V3DeepSeek$0.32$0.89163,840
4Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen$0.39$2.34262,144
5Hunyuan A13B InstructTencent$0.14$0.57131,072
6MiniMax M2.1MiniMax$0.29$0.95196,608
7Trinity Large PreviewArcee AI$0.00$0.00131,000
8GPT-4o (2024-11-20)OpenAI$2.50$10.00128,000
9MiniMax-01MiniMax$0.20$1.101,000,192
10Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic$3.00$15.001,000,000

Field notes

Tipps für eu data residency

  • 01

    Verify the underlying compute region, not just the API endpoint region.

  • 02

    Check the provider's sub-processor list for GDPR transfers outside the EU.

  • 03

    Consider open-weight self-hosted options if compliance is extreme.

FAQ

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The questions teams ask before picking a model for eu data residency.

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As of April 2026 our weighted top 3 EU-ready options are R1 0528, Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15, DeepSeek V3.
Via Azure OpenAI in EU regions, yes. Via the public OpenAI API, processing may route outside the EU.
Completely — if you host them yourself on EU-region GPUs. See our Shadow AI audit tool for how most teams are doing this in practice.