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Non-EU vendorAI CodingHeadquarters: GB

Cosine: sovereignty score and 6 European alternatives

Cosine is a UK-based AI research lab that trains AI models and specialised coding agents for organisations that need advanced capability inside secure environments. According to its website, the offer includes a cloud option, a command-line interface and the Lumen model family: Lumen Scout and Lumen Outpost are named, and Lumen Sovereign is listed as coming soon. The site says Scout and Outpost are post-trained from third-party base models, Devstral and Kimi.

Cosine describes itself as a UK company; its legal entity, founding date and investors are not stated on the website. The company also says it can run systems entirely inside a customer's own security perimeter, on premises and cut off from the public cloud. The site does not say where its cloud service stores data. For a European organisation, the contracting entity, the hosting location of the cloud option and the licences of the underlying base models are therefore the points to check. Being based outside the EU, the company's transfer and data-protection terms should be assessed on their own merits.

Sovereignty score
32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
GB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cosine

The European alternatives to Cosine come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Cosine

Cosine is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Cosine hosts data outside the EU (OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Cosine is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Cosine together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Cosine?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cosine include JetBrains AI Assistant, JetBrains Junie and Lurus Code. On this page you can compare 6 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Cosine?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Cosine include Mistral Code, Mistral Vibe CLI and SHAI (OVHcloud). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Cosine GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Cosine is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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