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Lyceum: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lyceum is a European GPU cloud for running open-source AI models. Its offering covers serverless inference of open models through one OpenAI-compatible API, dedicated endpoints with reserved GPU capacity for a specific model, and GPU compute as virtual machines or dedicated clusters for customers' own containers and models. It is delivered as a cloud platform with an API and is aimed at startups, research institutions and enterprises, among others.

Lyceum Technology Germany GmbH is based in Berlin, and its imprint also lists Lyceum Switzerland GmbH in Zurich. According to the vendor, the serverless models run in Paris and Finland, and Lyceum states that it does not store prompts or outputs and does not train on customer data. A data processing agreement and technical and organisational measures are available for security reviews. Press coverage says the company is building its own GPU sites with regional partners, including in Denmark and France. The sources consulted name no foreign parent company. The service itself is not open source, although it runs open models.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
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 September 8, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Cloud PaaS
Type	Product
Website	lyceum.technology ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Lyceum

The European alternatives to Lyceum 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 Lyceum

Lyceum is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Lyceum scores best on data residency.

Lyceum 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 Lyceum 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 Lyceum?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Lyceum include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Lyceum?

Our list of EU alternatives to Lyceum is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

Lyceum is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Lyceum an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on September 8, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice when it was added on September 8, 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

EU hosting documented: lyceum.technology/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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