Which AI providers offer EU data residency?
As of 19 August 2026, of 16 AI model offerings tracked, 8 have clear public evidence, 6 are conditional or gated, and 2 have 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, Mistral via Azure AI, Llama via AWS Bedrock
- Conditional, sales-gated, or partial: OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Cohere via AWS Bedrock, Llama via Azure AI, xAI API, DeepSeek via Fireworks AI
- No public evidence: Cohere API, 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.
◐Yes, sales-gated
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-15
The OpenAI API data residency feature is documented on OpenAI's own site but is gated: only Enterprise Customers approved for advanced data controls (requires sales contact and prior approval) can use it, making it yes_sales_gated, not publicly self-serve.
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●Yes, public
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-19
Microsoft’s own Azure OpenAI deployment documentation explicitly states that data can be pinned to a single Azure geography (e.g., an EU region) via Standard or Regional Provisioned deployments.
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◔Partial
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-19
Anthropic's official data residency docs confirm self‑serve region pinning exists but is limited to US only, so EU pinning is not possible, matching a partial answer.
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●Yes, public
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-17
AWS Bedrock model card explicitly states the EU geo inference ID keeps data within EU regions, confirming data can be pinned to an EU region.
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●Yes, public
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-16
Google Cloud's own blog documents self-serve EU multi-region endpoints for Claude on Vertex AI (now generally available), confirming public, non-gated EU data-residency pinning.
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●Yes, public
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-15
Google Cloud’s Vertex AI documentation publicly states that using EU jurisdictional multi‑region or EU locational endpoints pins ML processing to the EU, confirming data residency capability for Gemini.
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●Yes, public
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-15
The official AWS Bedrock documentation publicly describes an In-Region inference option that guarantees data stays within the chosen AWS Region, confirming region pinning including EU regions.
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●Yes, public
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-19
Mistral's own docs provide self-serve EU regional endpoints; the recorded quote is verbatim and the value is accurate.
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●Yes, public
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-15
Microsoft's official region-availability page lists Mistral-Large-3 and mistral-medium-3-5 (models sold by Azure) with checkmarks in the Data Zone Standard tables, confirming EU data-zone processing is supported. The GitHub discussion #176 is an unanswered user feedback post that is not authoritativ
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Cohere API
Cohere model, served by Cohere (first-party)
?Unclear
confidence: medium · verified 2026-08-14
Verified the verbatim quote on Cohere's own docs page; the value "unclear" is a defensible judgment since the page indicates region pinning exists but leaves available regions (and EU availability in particular) to a sales contact rather than settling it publicly.
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◔Partial
confidence: medium · verified 2026-08-17
The value partial is defensible: AWS Bedrock documents self-serve In-Region pinning, and some current Cohere models are EU-available, but the flagshiip Command R+ remains available only in us-east-1/us-west-2 (its official model card lists no EU regions and Geo/Global 'Not supported'), so a material
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●Yes, public
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-15
The recorded quote is present on the authoritative AWS docs page, but the value 'partial' understates the evidence: the page documents a self-serve In-Region option that "keeps requests within a single Region" and shows it is available for eu-central-1, eu-west-1, and eu-west-3, meaning data can be
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Llama via Azure AI
Meta model, served by Microsoft Azure (Azure AI Foundry / Models-as-a-Service)
◔Partial
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-15
The recorded source describes general Azure AI Foundry platform capabilities, not Llama-specific support. Multiple sources confirm Llama models lack Data Zone Standard and Standard (single region) deployment types: Microsoft Q&A confirms users cannot select Data Zone Standard for Llama, only Global
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xAI API
xAI model, served by xAI (first-party)
◐Yes, sales-gated
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-16
Verified on x.ai's own pricing page that Data residency is listed under the Enterprise tier alongside "Talk to our sales team," and x.ai/api also lists "Data residency options" under its sales-oriented enterprise section, with no self-serve regional pinning documented in the docs.
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○No public evidence
confidence: medium · verified 2026-08-18
DeepSeek's authoritative privacy policy (cdn.deepseek.com) states data is directly collected, processed and stored in the PRC and no regional data-pinning feature is documented for the first-party API, so no_public_evidence stands; the recorded source chat-deep.ai is a third-party aggregator and was
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◔Partial
confidence: high · verified 2026-08-14
Verified on Fireworks' own docs: self-serve --region pinning to listed EU single regions exists, but single-region quota is only granted at the GLOBAL multi-region level by default and requires contacting Fireworks, so the capability is partially self-serve and partially gated. Quote is verbatim on
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