AI & Machine Learning / Sovereign LLMs Verified 26 Apr 2026

LightOn Paradigm

On-prem French LLM platform

Paris, France · Founded 2016 · Paid
A European alternative to Meta Llama

About LightOn Paradigm

LightOn Paradigm is the on-premise / private-cloud enterprise GenAI platform from LightOn, the French sovereign-AI company headquartered in Paris and listed on Euronext Growth since 2024. Paradigm exposes a curated catalogue of open-weight models including Mistral, Llama and LightOn fine-tunes through an AI chat with multi-assistant support, agentic tool chaining and retrieval over enterprise sources such as SharePoint, Drive, Confluence and file servers, all kept on European infrastructure. A dedicated Paradigm Edu variant targets higher education (e.g., with ENS Paris-Saclay). Pricing is enterprise / quote-based with EU data sovereignty.

Quick facts

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