AI & Machine Learning / LLMs & APIs Verified 26 Apr 2026

LightOn

On-prem GenAI suite with curated open-weight LLMs, RAG and agentic tool chaining

Paris, France · Founded 2016 · Paid
A European alternative to OpenAI Anthropic Google Gemini Cohere AI21 Labs

About LightOn

LightOn is a French sovereign generative-AI company founded in 2016 in Paris by Igor Carron, Laurent Daudet, Florent Krzakala and Sylvain Gigan, and listed on Euronext Growth Paris since November 2024 as Europe's first listed GenAI startup. Its Paradigm platform is an on-premise or private-cloud enterprise GenAI suite that exposes curated open-weight models (Mistral, Llama and LightOn fine-tunes) on European infrastructure with no data leaving EU jurisdiction. It includes a multi-assistant AI chat, retrieval over SharePoint, Drive, Confluence and file servers, and agentic tool chaining. Pricing is enterprise/quote-based.

Quick facts

Pricing model Paid
Free trial
Open source
Self-hostable No
Public API No
Target audience B2B
Company size fit All
DPA available Yes
Data stored in EU Yes
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