SocleAIvsOpenAI
Socle AI is a sovereign AI platform, hosted in France or installable on your own servers, whereas OpenAI is a US provider subject to the Cloud Act that cannot be deployed on your premises.
THE ALTERNATIVE
OpenAI
ChatGPT Enterprise and direct API (United States)
OUR APPROACH
Socle AI
Sovereign European platform
European sovereignty versus a US giant under the Cloud Act: you keep the OpenAI SDK, without the dependency or the regulatory risk.
The line-by-line comparison
| CRITERION | OPENAI | SOCLE AI |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | United States, subject to the Cloud Act | ▸ France (Scaleway) or your servers |
| On-premise | Impossible | ▸ Yes, via Docker |
| Your data | Extraterritorial exposure | ▸ No data shared, none used for training |
| Choice of model | OpenAI models only | ▸ 12+ models (Mistral, Llama, Qwen and more) |
| Existing code | Proprietary ecosystem | ▸ Same SDK, base_url redirected |
The limits of OpenAI
Regulatory risk and the Cloud Act
Subject to US law, with exposure to sensitive data leaks and to extraterritoriality.
Total proprietary lock-in
All the code you write on the OpenAI proprietary ecosystem locks you in with them.
On-premise impossible
There is no way to install ChatGPT on your own servers or on a sovereign cloud.
What Socle AI adds on top
Sovereign by design
100% hosting in France (Scaleway) or on-premise (Docker) on your servers. No data shared, no data used to train a model.
OpenAI API compatibility (base_url)
Your developers keep the same OpenAI SDK and simply redirect requests to Socle AI. You keep the code, without the dependency.
Multi-model (12+)
Switch between Mistral, Llama, Qwen and the rest depending on cost and business need.
Key questions you should be asking!
Are you comfortable handing your customers strategic data, or your R&D data, to a US infrastructure subject to the Cloud Act?
The questions we get most often
OBJECTION
« OpenAI has the best models in the world. »
OUR ANSWER
True for general-purpose use. But for your critical business processes, an open-source model (Mistral, Qwen) orchestrated on Socle AI is more secure, more sovereign, cheaper, and performs just as well on targeted tasks.
Want to compare on your own use case?
Try the platform, or talk it through with someone who has already deployed this kind of project.
