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Which means you can't use a lot of the US frontier models, but you can use all the Chinese ones, albeit within EU GDPR, etc. This to me is a good compromise between privacy and cost.", "context": "", "use_case": "EU-only LLM inference", "switched_from": "OpenRouter", "story": "AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke"}, {"id": 771927585, "item_id": 48245474, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245474", "by": "freakynit", "date": "2026-05-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "If DS4flash works for your case, then https://tensorix.ai/pricing is offering at pretty much the same rates as deepseek themselves, with EU data residency and guarantees.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"}, {"id": 771868416, "item_id": 48241776, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241776", "by": "Phelinofist", "date": "2026-05-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yep, I use Cortecs - https://cortecs.ai/ \"Europe's LLM ROUTER\"", "excerpt": "Yep, I use Cortecs - https://cortecs.ai/ \"Europe's LLM ROUTER\"", "context": "", "use_case": "DeepSeek via gateway", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"}, {"id": 771395520, "item_id": 48212220, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212220", "by": "czottmann", "date": "2026-05-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cortecs (Austria) is quite good", "excerpt": "Look around for EU LLM routers. There are some, but none are as big as OpenRouter. Still, Cortecs (Austria) is quite good and offers a couple of recent models through its EU-based providers. Zero data retention, GDPR compliant, etc. Really nice. https://cortecs.ai/serverlessModels", "context": "", "use_case": "EU-hosted LLM access", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"}]}