Lumo
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Dec 30, 2025first mention
Apr 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I like Proton’s Lumo private chat and that runs on Mistral technology.”
“Lumo by Proton is pretty performant. Mostly, it has an epic free tier”
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“Proton Lumo has the better privacy promises.”
switched from ChatGPTon “OpenAI Executes Agreement with Dept of War for Class…”
“for all day to day queries and prompts I have switched to using Proton's Lumo that is really quite good”
switched from Geminion “Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of th…”
“I use protons LUMO AI, which uses different models in the backend and gives you unlimited requests”
switched from Kagion “Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU…”
Caveats and dissent
“Lumo will likely be the thing that moves me away from Proton.”
Often compared with
1 moved from ChatGPT to Lumo
1 moved from Gemini to Lumo
1 moved from Kagi to Lumo
Threads where it came up
- France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use? 1 mention
- OpenAI Executes Agreement with Dept of War for Classified Environment Deployment 1 mention
- Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 mention
- Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem 1 mention
- Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Saved 500€/Year) 1 mention
Data: lumo.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I like Proton’s Lumo private chat and that runs on Mistral technology.”
“Lumo by Proton is pretty performant. Mostly, it has an epic free tier”
“Proton Lumo has the better privacy promises.”
“for all day to day queries and prompts I have switched to using Proton's Lumo that is really quite good”
“Lumo will likely be the thing that moves me away from Proton.”
“I use protons LUMO AI, which uses different models in the backend and gives you unlimited requests”