This post is part of a series on moving off American software.
ChatGPT is the default AI assistant for a lot of people, and it belongs to an American company. Every prompt you type — every document you paste in — travels to servers under US jurisdiction. For a recipe swap that may not bother you. For client work, internal documents, or anything personal, it should at least be a decision you make on purpose.
Europe has its own AI chatbots. They differ from each other quite a bit: some compete on privacy, others on raw features. None of them is a perfect clone of ChatGPT, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. But there are five worth knowing about, and at least one of them will fit how you actually work.
Mistral (Vibe)
Mistral AI is based in France, and its chatbot offering is called Vibe — it was previously known as Le Chat before the company renamed and expanded it in 2026. This is the most full-featured option on the list. It pairs a conversational assistant with an integrated coding agent: you can ask questions, research topics, draft documents, and prepare for meetings in one interface.
Vibe searches the web, reads connected documents and spreadsheets, and pulls information from tools like email, calendars, Slack, GitHub, and Jira through built-in connectors and support for the Model Context Protocol. Developers can describe a task in natural language and have Vibe write, test, and open changes across a codebase, from a web interface, a command-line tool, or supported IDEs. It also accepts voice input and generates images.
If you want the closest thing to an all-round ChatGPT replacement here, this is it.
Lumo by Proton
Proton is known for privacy-first email and cloud services, and Lumo applies the same approach to AI chat. It uses zero-access encryption for your chats and operates under a no-logs policy, so your conversations are not shared with advertisers or governments. You can delete your data at any time. The listing flags a free plan.
The trade-off is scope: Lumo is built around private conversation, not around being a sprawling assistant platform. If your main concern is who can read your chats, it is the obvious pick.
CamoCopy
CamoCopy, from Restoflix Sàrl in Luxembourg, covers the standard chatbot workload: open-ended, multi-turn conversation, writing, translation, and research, plus an integrated web search that returns source links. You can upload documents, including PDFs, and images for analysis, and generate images from text descriptions. Conversations can be organized into workspaces with their own custom instructions, and uploaded files can be set to delete themselves automatically.
By default it runs open-source language models such as Llama and Mistral, hosted on servers from European providers including Hetzner and Scaleway. If you specifically want models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, you can opt in through EU-based cloud partners — your choice, made explicitly. CamoCopy works in the browser and on iOS and Android.
Euria
Euria is built by Infomaniak, a Swiss cloud and hosting company based in Geneva. It answers open-ended questions, drafts and edits text, translates content, and summarizes documents and web pages. It can search the web for current information, analyze uploaded images, and read PDF, Word, and Excel files.
It runs on Qwen3, an open-source language model, and processes requests exclusively on Infomaniak's own infrastructure in Switzerland rather than sending data to external providers. Infomaniak states that conversations are not used to train models or shown to advertisers. Euria is also integrated into Infomaniak's kChat, Mail, and kDrive tools, which makes it a natural fit if you already use that ecosystem.
GreenPT
GreenPT comes from a company based in Utrecht, Netherlands. It supports open-ended, multi-turn conversations and can analyze uploaded documents and images, generate and explain code, translate between languages, and convert speech to text. It searches the web and cites the sources it used.
Beyond the chatbot, it offers an OpenAI-compatible API, a no-code chatbot builder called Frida, and a separate search engine. Chat inference runs on infrastructure from Scaleway, a French cloud provider, with servers located in France. If you are a developer who wants a European endpoint that speaks the OpenAI API format, this is the one to look at.
Choosing between them
- Privacy above all: Lumo
- Feature depth, coding, integrations: Mistral's Vibe
- Swiss-run infrastructure: Euria
- Developer API: GreenPT
- EU-hosted general chat with model choice: CamoCopy
None of these will feel identical to ChatGPT, and that is fine. The point is that you do not have to route your questions, documents, and drafts through an American company to get a capable assistant.
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