European alternatives to GitHub Copilot
Microsoft and GitHub's AI pair-programmer, suggesting code as you type. It runs on Azure and sends your code context to a US company, which raises questions for proprietary or sensitive codebases.
Company information about GitHub Copilot
- Company
- GitHub, Inc.
- Parent company
- Microsoft Corporation
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2021
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure
Why people switch away from GitHub Copilot
European alternatives to GitHub Copilot
France's leading AI lab. Powerful open-weight models built and hosted entirely in Europe.
German sovereign AI provider. Pharia and Luminous models trained and hosted entirely in Europe, built for enterprise compliance.
French-founded open AI platform and model hub, often called the GitHub of machine learning. Significant US presence reflected in lower score.
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Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.