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    Use API keys with budget limitsHosted in the EU & GDPR-compliant
    quickstart.py
    from openai import OpenAI
    client = OpenAI(
    -   base_url="https://api.openai.com/v1",
    +   base_url="https://api.openhippo.io/v1",
        api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    )
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="openai/gpt-oss-120b",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
    )
    print(response.choices[0].message.content)
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    Signatory Task Force
    § 203
    On request with
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    QW
    Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
    Alibaba
    DE
    GDPR compliant
    from €0.25 / 1M tokens
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    QW
    Qwen3.6-27B
    Alibaba
    DE
    GDPR compliant
    from €0.25 / 1M tokens
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    GP
    gpt-oss-120b
    OpenAI
    DE
    GDPR compliant
    from €0.15 / 1M tokens
    €5 Free Credit
    QW
    Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B
    Alibaba
    DE
    GDPR compliant
    from €0.02 / 1M tokens
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    QW
    Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
    Alibaba
    DE
    GDPR compliant
    from €0.01 / 1M tokens
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    QW
    Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B
    Alibaba
    DE
    GDPR compliant
    from €0.20 / 1M tokens
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    GL
    GLM-OCR
    Zhipu AI
    DE
    GDPR compliant
    from €0.03 / 1M tokens
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    WH
    whisper-large-v3
    OpenAI
    DE
    GDPR compliant
    from €40.00 / 1M words
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    KI
    Kimi-K2.7-Code-1100B
    MoonshotAI
    Soon
    GDPR compliant
    —
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    MI
    MiniMax-M2.5
    MiniMax
    Soon
    GDPR compliant
    —
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    CL
    claude-opus-4-8
    Anthropic
    Soon
    GDPR compliant
    —
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    CL
    claude-sonnet-5
    Anthropic
    Soon
    GDPR compliant
    —
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    claude-fable-5
    Anthropic
    Soon
    GDPR compliant
    —
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    What do our customers say?

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    How do we move you forward?

    Sovereign AI in three steps.

    Every organization starts from a different point. We bring the technical depth to guide you from there to sovereign, GDPR-compliant AI — a partner for the whole journey.

    Step 1
    console.openhippo.io / models
    Models console with compliance filters
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    Step 1
    Which model fits you?

    Choose by compliance level

    Filter models by what you actually need — GDPR, § 203 professional secrecy, EU-sovereign hosting, or 0% CO2. Pick the guarantee, get the model.

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    What do companies ask us?

    The questions your team will ask.

    Compliance, cost, integration, support — answered directly, no sales pitch.

    Yes. Open Hippo offers both OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints. Keep your SDK, keep your code — just swap the base URL for api.openhippo.io and use your OpenHippo key.

    What can you build with it?

    What people build with us.

    Real workloads running on Open Hippo today — compliant, capped, and live in production.

    Hippo Server terminal view

    Hippo Server

    Dedicated LLM servers in your own or our EU infrastructure — full data sovereignty, no cloud lock-in.

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    Teams use the ready-made chat interface with every model — GDPR-compliant, no need to build their own app.

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    Press

    News and coverage.

    What's being written about Open Hippo — news, interviews, and press mentions.

    IT-BUSINESS: Augsburg AI alliance ‘Wir können KI’
    IT-BUSINESS

    Augsburger Unternehmen bündeln Kräfte für Corporate-LLM-Lösungen

    17.07.2026
    B4B Schwaben: the Open Hippo team at their booth
    B4B Schwaben

    KI „Made in Augsburg“: Wie Open Hippo Datensouveränität und Klimaschutz vereint

    04.05.2026
    OpenTeams blog: article by Thomas Fraunholz
    OpenTeams

    Aerospace’s Future Hinges on Open Source Computer Vision

    13.03.2025
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    Who are we?
    Who are we?

    Born in Augsburg, built for Europe.

    The team behind Open Hippo — engineers and AI specialists who believe sovereign technology doesn't need a Silicon Valley address.

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