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European AI API for open-source models on EU infrastructure

AKI.IO provides token-based API access to open-source AI models hosted on European infrastructure.

Explore 106 alternatives to AKI.IO across 1 category. Updated October 2026.

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Lium

GPU rental marketplace where independent providers list verified NVIDIA hosts, billed per second

From $0.06/GPU-hour (RTX 3060, 15 Oct 2026)

NanoGPT

One OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models, with text billed at provider list prices

Free Trial

Pay per prompt, from $0.10

Lyceum

EU-hosted inference cloud for open-source models, OpenAI-compatible

From $0.06/1M tokens

System1 Models

Hosted open decision models behind a Jev-compatible API, with an EU-only tier and a lower-cost Peer-to-Peer tier

$0.019 per 1M input tokens (s1-fast), output free

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Top AKI.IO alternatives at a glance

Lium. GPU rental marketplace where independent providers list verified NVIDIA hosts, billed per second
RunPod. The Cloud Built for AI.
Hyperstack. On-demand cloud GPU platform for AI and ML workloads with per-minute billing
evroc. European-sovereign cloud and inference APIs running open-source models on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in EU data centers
CoreWeave. GPU cloud infrastructure built for large-scale AI training and inference workloads

Compare AKI.IO with its alternatives

Product	Pricing Model	Free Tier	Open Source	Hosting	HQ
AKI.IO	Pay-per-use	✓	—	—	🇩🇪 Germany
Lium	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇰🇳 KN
RunPod	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Hyperstack	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇬🇧 United Kingdom
evroc	Contact Sales	—	—	Cloud	🇸🇪 Sweden
CoreWeave	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Airon	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇸🇪 Sweden
Vast.ai	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
AiQu	Subscription	✓	—	Cloud	🇸🇪 Sweden
Lambda	Pay-per-use	✓	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
ARK Labs	Freemium	✓	—	Cloud + Self-hosted	—
QuantaCloud	—	—	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Hostnot GPU	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇦🇪 AE
General Compute	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Theta EdgeCloud	—	—	✓	—	—
SaladCloud	—	—	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States

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Lium

GPU rental marketplace where independent providers list verified NVIDIA hosts, billed per second

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RunPod

The Cloud Built for AI.

Hyperstack

On-demand cloud GPU platform for AI and ML workloads with per-minute billing

evroc

European-sovereign cloud and inference APIs running open-source models on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in EU data centers

CoreWeave

GPU cloud infrastructure built for large-scale AI training and inference workloads

Airon

Dedicated bare-metal GPU infrastructure for AI workloads, hosted in Nordic datacenters

Vast.ai

GPU marketplace for renting compute at market-driven prices with per-second billing

AiQu

Swedish GPU infrastructure and LLM hosting platform with API-first deployment, no Kubernetes required

Free Trial

Lambda

GPU cloud for AI training and inference with on-demand and cluster options

Free Trial

ARK Labs

Sovereign AI inference infrastructure for regulated EU environments, with heterogeneous GPU support

Free Trial

QuantaCloud

On-demand NVIDIA GPU VMs in US Midwest regions, prepaid and billed by the second, plus quoted reserved clusters

Hostnot GPU

On-demand GPU cloud with serverless inference and wallet-based billing

General Compute

ASIC-powered inference cloud built for AI agents, OpenAI-compatible API

Theta EdgeCloud

GPU rental and model serving across hosted, AWS and community-run nodes, billed by the hour

Open Source

SaladCloud

Container GPU cloud on a distributed network of consumer RTX GPUs, billed per second by priority tier

Packet.ai

On-demand NVIDIA GPU cloud with per-second billing, SSH, CLI, and API access

vMetal

Bare metal GPU server provisioning for companies building AI compute clouds

Hetzner GPU Servers

Dedicated single-GPU servers with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell cards, billed hourly, in Finland and Germany

Cyfuture AI

Hourly NVIDIA GPU rental from V100 to H100 and B300, with capacity in India, the US and the EU

Free Trial

Verda

European GPU cloud with on-demand instances and serverless inference

Taiga Cloud

European GPU cloud for AI training and inference by Northern Data Group

OVHcloud AI

European cloud provider with AI inference, training, and deployment services

Free Trial

DeepSeek

Cost-effective inference API with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and open-weight models

Open Source Free Trial

OpenAI

API access to GPT, o-series reasoning, DALL-E, and Whisper models

Free Trial

Mistral

Use models in a few clicks with our platform. Download our open models for deep access.

Open Source

Replicate

Run and fine-tune open-source models. Deploy custom models at scale. All with one line of code.

Anthropic Claude

Claude API for building AI applications with Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models

Free Trial

Google Gemini API

Google's API for Gemini models with text, image, video, and audio capabilities

Free Trial

Lepton

GPU compute marketplace from NVIDIA (formerly Lepton AI). Connects developers to 20+ cloud providers through one inte...

Cerebras

Ultra-fast inference on custom wafer-scale hardware with OpenAI-compatible API

Free Trial

Baseten

AI inference platform for deploying and serving ML models with autoscaling and optimized infrastructure

Free Trial

Nebius

Full-stack AI cloud with GPU infrastructure for training and inference

Free Trial

LibertAI

Decentralized, privacy-first inference API running open-source LLMs in trusted execution environments

Berget AI

EU-sovereign AI inference platform with OpenAI-compatible API

Free Trial

LLMWise

Multi-LLM API orchestration platform for comparing and blending AI models

Free Trial

NanoGPT

One OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models, with text billed at provider list prices

Featured Free Trial

DeepInfra

Run the top AI models using a simple API, pay per use. Low cost, scalable and production ready infrastructure.

Free Trial

LLM Tech

EU inference provider serving Qwen3.8-27B from dedicated Helsinki GPUs it rents and operates itself, with zero data r...

Free Trial

Vynaris

OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes each request to a smaller model and returns a cost receipt

Lyceum

EU-hosted inference cloud for open-source models, OpenAI-compatible

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Novita AI

APIs, Serverless and GPU Instance In One AI Cloud

Free Trial

OpenRouter

Unified API for 400+ AI models across 60+ providers, OpenAI SDK-compatible, pay-as-you-go

Free Trial

Groq

LPU-powered inference API for LLMs, speech, and vision models with usage-based pricing

Free Trial

CheapestInference

Flat-rate unlimited inference on open-weight models, sold in daily 8-hour windows

Together AI

The fastest cloud platform for building and running generative AI.

Solheim AI

Private EU-hosted LLM instances billed at a flat monthly fee rather than per token

Infer by Flow7

Responses API gateway for coding agents, with a public model catalog and per-request spend ceilings

Akumi

EU-hosted OpenAI-compatible inference API with data residency, PII pseudonymization and per-request audit trails

HostYourAI

EU-hosted inference router with OpenAI and Anthropic drop-in compatibility, plus dedicated vLLM instances

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

Hosted API access to Qwen and third-party models across six global regions

Free Trial

GPU Flow

OpenAI-compatible inference, GPU sandboxes and dedicated B200s, hosted in Spain and billed in euros

Free Trial

TokensMind

Unified OpenAI-compatible API gateway to 100+ models across providers

Free Trial

GreenPT

French inference API for open-weight models, hosted on Scaleway with embeddings, reranking and speech

Free Trial

Boundless

Per-token API for open and frontier models, with engineers who tune the serving setup to your traffic

Kontinent

EU-resident OpenAI-compatible API that routes across European model providers, plus post-training on your data

Regolo

OpenAI-compatible inference API run on Italian infrastructure with zero data retention

Free Trial

Juice Factory

OpenAI-compatible LLM and embedding API on its own hardware in Sweden, with no prompt or response retention

Free Trial

WAYSCloud

Norwegian cloud platform with an LLM inference API running open-weight models in Norway

Perplexity API

Web search, agent, embeddings and decision APIs from Perplexity, billed per request or per token

IONOS AI Model Hub

OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight LLMs and image models, hosted in IONOS EU data centers

Runware

Unified API for image, video, audio and 3D generation running on custom inference hardware

Free Trial

Opper

European AI gateway: 700+ models through one EU-hosted, OpenAI-compatible API

Free Trial

Eldrim Compute

OpenAI-compatible API for open models on Swedish compute, with residency rules and per-request route records

Free Trial

Melious AI

European inference API serving 60+ open-weight models on OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints

TrustRoute

OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway hosted in Switzerland, with per-workload rules on which models data may reach

Free Trial

Fast Pivot

Unified OpenAI-compatible API for routing across 300+ models from 50+ providers

SimpleLLM

OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, hosted only in EU data centres

Free Trial

Meta Model API

Meta's OpenAI-compatible API for its Muse models: 1M-context Muse Spark, image, transcription and SAM

Aurora Inference

OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, with in-region deployment on reserved capacity

Inceptron

EU-hosted LLM inference with an in-house compiler: serverless open-weight model APIs and dedicated GPU deployments

PrimaLabs

Dedicated inference stacks for open models like DeepSeek and GLM, tuned to each workload on live traffic

Heabsy

EU inference API on its own GPUs in the EEA, with zero data retention and OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints.

Geodd

Managed AI inference endpoints and GPU infrastructure with OpenAI-compatible API

DigitalOcean Inference Engine

DigitalOcean's managed inference: serverless LLM and image APIs, dedicated GPU endpoints and batch jobs

Xinference

Open-source inference engine for 300+ open models, plus a hosted API and managed GPUs served from Australia

Open Source Free Trial

OceanToken

One OpenAI-compatible API for 500+ text, image, video and speech models, billed from a prepaid balance

Free Trial

CodingPlanX

Unified AI API gateway providing access to 600+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and more

Free Trial

Coral Bricks

OpenAI-compatible inference for coding and research agents, serving GLM and DeepSeek with free cached reads.

Fireworks AI

The production AI platform built for developers.

FerryAPI

OpenAI-compatible API gateway with prepaid balance and usage billing

Tokenware

Unified OpenAI-compatible API to 200+ models with smart routing and failover

Free Trial

Grunden AI

OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, run on Grunden's own GPU clusters in Nordic data centers

SovInfra

OpenAI-compatible inference API for open-weight models, run on EU GPUs with no request retention.

Free Trial

Simplismart

Deploy and serve open-source and custom models via API, on dedicated GPUs, or in your own cloud

SambaNova

Custom AI chip inference platform with purpose-built hardware for high-throughput LLM serving

Free Trial

LLMBase

EU-hosted inference API with 30+ open-source models, OpenAI-compatible, GDPR-compliant

AVIS

Vietnamese AI gateway with one API key for 400+ text, image, video and audio models, priced in VND

OurToken

Unified OpenAI-compatible API gateway that routes requests across multiple LLM providers

SiliconFlow

OpenAI-compatible API serving 200+ open-source LLM and multimodal models

Free Trial

Synexa

Simple, fast, and stable. Deploy AI models with just one line of code.

IonRouter

High-throughput inference API with OpenAI-compatible access to open-source models at half market rate

Free Trial

Modal

Run generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and much more.

Free Trial

Infercom

European sovereign AI inference with OpenAI-compatible APIs hosted in EU datacenters

Free Trial

Cohere

Cohere’s world-class LLMs help enterprises build powerful, secure applications that search, understand meaning and co...

Free Trial

Amazon Bedrock

Managed API access to foundation models on AWS with built-in fine-tuning and agent tooling

Free Trial

TensorX

EU-sovereign inference API with 42+ open-source models and zero data retention

Cloudflare Workers AI

Run AI models at the edge on Cloudflare's global network with serverless inference

Free Trial

EUrouter

European AI gateway that routes to 100+ models with EU data residency

Free Trial

OctoAI

OctoAI delivers production-grade GenAI solutions running on the most efficient compute, empowering builders to launch...

Free Trial

Anyscale

Fast, cost-efficient, serverless APIs for LLM Serving and Fine Tuning

Nscale

European AI hyperscaler with serverless inference and GPU cloud

Free Trial

Scaleway

European serverless AI inference APIs, 100% hosted in Europe

Free Trial

Cortecs AI

European AI inference gateway with smart routing across EU providers

Free Trial

Z.ai

Hosted API for GLM language and multimodal models

MiniMax

APIs for language, video, speech, and music models

Moonshot AI

Hosted API for Kimi language and multimodal models

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