European AI Gateways: Comparing EdenAI, OVHcloud AI Endpoints, and Scaleway Generative APIs

If you're an EU company building AI applications, your choice of AI gateway determines your sovereignty, your cost structure, and your operational complexity. This is an honest comparison of the three main EU-native gateway options: what they offer, what they cost, and where each one falls short.

The EU AI Gateway Options

Three providers offer genuinely EU-native AI gateway services, meaning EU companies, EU infrastructure, EU legal jurisdiction, no CLOUD Act exposure:

1. Eden AI: a multi-provider gateway with 500+ models, EU endpoint, and smart routing
2. OVHcloud AI Endpoints: managed inference for ~20 models on OVHcloud infrastructure
3. Scaleway Generative APIs: managed inference for ~10 models on Scaleway infrastructure

All three satisfy the core sovereignty requirement: EU corporate jurisdiction, EU compute, EU data processing. The differences are in model coverage, orchestration features, and the kind of use case each one fits.

Feature Comparison: Eden AI, OVHcloud AI Endpoints and Scaleway Generative APIs

Sovereignty Guarantees Compared: Eden AI, OVHcloud AI Endpoints and Scaleway Generative APIs

Eden AI

• Eden AI SAS, a French company under EU law, handles corporate jurisdiction.
• Compute routes to EU-hosted models via the EU endpoint; it can route to any provider, including EU providers like Mistral on OVHcloud or Scaleway-hosted models.
• BYOK is supported, so you can bring your own customer-managed encryption keys.
• Every API call is logged with model, provider, timestamp, and response summary, all stored in the EU.
• All processing via the EU endpoint stays in the EU unless you explicitly route elsewhere.

OVHcloud AI Endpoints

• OVH Groupe is a French, Euronext-listed company under EU law.
• All inference runs on OVHcloud's EU datacenter infrastructure.
• OVHcloud offers customer-managed keys for some products.
• Audit is basic: infrastructure metrics are available, but there is no AI-call-level audit logging.
• All data stays in OVHcloud EU datacenters. Sovereign.

Scaleway Generative APIs

• Scaleway SAS, part of the Iliad group, is a French company under EU law.
• All inference runs on Scaleway's French datacenter infrastructure.
• BYOK is limited.
• Audit is basic infrastructure logging, not AI-call-level audit.
• All data stays in Scaleway French datacenters. Sovereign.

Pricing Comparison

Eden AI

You pay per token, routing to whatever provider serves the request. Eden AI adds a small markup around 5%. Because routing lets you send simple tasks to cheaper models like DeepSeek or Qwen, you can save 50-80% compared to always using frontier models.

Example cost per million input tokens:

• Mistral Large 2 via Eden AI EU: ~$3-5
• GPT-5 via Eden AI: ~$5-7 (higher because the routing fee is included)
• DeepSeek V3 via Eden AI: ~$1-3

OVHcloud AI Endpoints

You pay per request or per token depending on the model. Example cost:

• Mistral 7B on OVHcloud: ~€0.20/M tokens
• Llama 3.1 70B on OVHcloud: ~€2-4/M tokens

Pricing is transparent per model, with no routing optimization.

Scaleway Generative APIs

You pay per token. Example cost:

• Mistral 7B on Scaleway: ~€0.20/M tokens
• Mistral Large on Scaleway: ~€3-5/M tokens

Pricing is similar to OVHcloud: straightforward per-model pricing.

Use Case Recommendations

Choose Eden AI if:

• You want access to many models from many providers through one API.
• You need routing intelligence, like cost optimization, provider fallback, or jurisdiction-aware routing.
• You need audit logging for compliance, whether that's the EU AI Act or internal governance.
• You need multimodal capabilities (vision, OCR, speech, translation), not just text.
• You want a hybrid strategy: some EU routes, some US routes for capability.

In short, Eden AI fits companies that need orchestration plus sovereignty plus model breadth.

Choose OVHcloud AI Endpoints if:

• You're already an OVHcloud customer and want to add AI to your existing infrastructure.
• You need simple, reliable inference for a known set of models.
• You don't need routing optimization because you know which model you want.
• You want OVHcloud's public sector certifications (they're qualified under the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework).

This is a good fit for public sector work, OVHcloud-native stacks, or teams that want managed EU inference without gateway features.

Choose Scaleway Generative APIs if:

• You're a Scaleway customer or want Paris-region infrastructure.
• You need straightforward generative AI access with minimal complexity.
• You're cost-sensitive on basic inference.
• You don't need multimodal or complex routing.

This works well for startups running on Scaleway or for simple inference use cases.

The Orchestration Advantage

The biggest difference between Eden AI and the other two is orchestration, and it's the layer that most companies underestimate.

Without orchestration (direct model endpoint):

• You know which model you want, so you call provider A.
• Provider A goes down, your application crashes, and you manually switch to provider B.
• Provider B raises prices, so you pay or migrate.
• You want to optimize cost, so you build your own routing logic.
• You need an audit trail, so you build your own logging.
• The provider gets an AI Act compliance request, and you depend on provider cooperation.

With orchestration (AI gateway):

• You call one API and the gateway routes to the optimal model.
• Provider A goes down and there's automatic failover to provider B, with no integration changes.
• You want cost optimization and the gateway routes simple requests to cheaper models.
• You need an audit trail and it's built-in, stored in the EU.
• Compliance is managed at the gateway level, so you demonstrate control in one place.

The orchestration tax: Eden AI adds ~5% to provider costs. For most companies, the routing savings (20-50% from intelligent model selection) outweigh this by a wide margin.

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