Registry / Residency

Which AI providers offer EU data residency?

As of 3 October 2026, of 16 AI model offerings tracked, 9 have clear public evidence, 6 are conditional or gated, and 1 has no public evidence.

Clear public evidence: Azure OpenAI Service, Claude via AWS Bedrock, Claude via Google Vertex AI, Gemini via Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock (platform), Mistral La Plateforme, Cohere via AWS Bedrock, Llama via AWS Bedrock, Llama via Azure AI
Conditional, sales-gated, or partial: OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Mistral via Azure AI, Cohere API, xAI API, DeepSeek via Fireworks AI
No public evidence: DeepSeek API (first-party)

Region-pinning and EU residency options across major AI model offerings. The cell answers: Can data be pinned to a region (especially the EU)? Statuses below are evidence grades, not endorsements, “no public evidence” means we could not verify it from public sources, not that the answer is no.

OpenAI API first-party API

◐Yes, sales-gated confidence: high · verified 2026-10-03

OpenAI’s own documentation states data residency is limited to eligible/approved customers, confirming the offering is sales‑gated.

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Azure OpenAI Service OpenAI model, served by Microsoft Azure

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-10-02

Microsoft docs state that Standard/Regional deployments process data in the specific Azure region of the deployment, allowing region‑level pinning such as to an EU region.

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Anthropic API first-party API

◔Partial confidence: high · verified 2026-10-02

Official Anthropic docs show workspace geo limited to US and inference_geo only 'us' or 'global', so data cannot be pinned to the EU, making the answer partial.

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Claude via AWS Bedrock Anthropic model, served by AWS Bedrock

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-09-29

AWS Bedrock model card for Claude Sonnet 5 publicly lists an EU inference profile that pins data to EU regions.

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Claude via Google Vertex AI Anthropic model, served by Google Cloud Vertex AI

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-09-30

Google Cloud’s blog confirms publicly that EU multi‑region endpoints let users pin data processing to the EU geography for Claude on Vertex AI.

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Gemini via Vertex AI Google model, served by Google Cloud Vertex AI

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-10-03

The official Vertex AI data residency documentation explicitly states that using EU jurisdictional or locational endpoints pins ML processing to the EU, confirming public self‑serve region pinning.

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AWS Bedrock (platform) platform row

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-10-03

AWS Bedrock documentation publicly describes an In-Region option guaranteeing data stays within the chosen AWS Region, enabling region‑pinning including EU regions.

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Mistral La Plateforme first-party API

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-10-03

The provider’s publicly accessible documentation confirms dedicated EU endpoint for inference, allowing data to be pinned to the EU.

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Mistral via Azure AI Mistral AI model, served by Microsoft Azure

◐Yes, sales-gated confidence: high · verified 2026-09-29

The authoritative Microsoft Foundry page confirming region‑pinned processing is behind an authentication gate, so the evidence is sales‑gated rather than publicly accessible.

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Cohere API Cohere model, served by Cohere (first-party)

◐Yes, sales-gated confidence: high · verified 2026-10-02

Cohere's own compliance page says region selection can meet data‑residency needs but requires contacting them, indicating the capability is gated behind a sales interaction.

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Cohere via AWS Bedrock Cohere model, served by AWS Bedrock

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-09-30

The model card explicitly lists In-Region inference support for EU regions, confirming data can be pinned to a specific EU region.

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Llama via AWS Bedrock Meta model, served by AWS Bedrock

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-10-03

The model card’s Regional Availability table lists EU regions in the In-Region column, confirming data can be pinned to a specific EU AWS region.

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Llama via Azure AI Meta model, served by Microsoft Azure (Azure AI Foundry / Models-as-a-Service)

●Yes, public confidence: high · verified 2026-09-28

The page confirms Standard/Regional deployments process data in the chosen Azure region and that Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is available in Sweden Central, meeting EU data residency requirements.

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xAI API xAI model, served by xAI (first-party)

◐Yes, sales-gated confidence: high · verified 2026-09-28

The provider’s public pages state data residency options are an enterprise feature and mention regional processing options, indicating pinning to EU is available but gated behind a sales process.

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DeepSeek API (first-party) first-party API

○No public evidence confidence: high · verified 2026-10-02

Searches of DeepSeek's own site reveal no authoritative page asserting EU data residency for the API, and the privacy policy only identifies China as the data controller.

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DeepSeek via Fireworks AI DeepSeek model, served by Fireworks AI

◐Yes, sales-gated confidence: high · verified 2026-10-02

Fireworks AI documentation confirms region pinning is possible but only after contacting sales, matching a sales‑gated capability.

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