You probably work with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini every day. And in our community, the question comes up almost every week: Is there a Swiss version of this? Yes—in fact, there have been a good dozen of them. But “Swiss” means something different for almost every provider.

At swissAI, we took a closer look at sixteen offerings. Here is an overview, with no ranking and no recommendations.

What does “Swiss AI” mean here?

Imagine the Swiss cross on a food package. It could mean: The recipe is Swiss. Or the factory is located here. Or simply that the company is headquartered here.

It's exactly the same with AI chats:

  1. The company is Swiss: headquarters, ownership, applicable law
  2. The hosting is based in Switzerland: your chats run on servers in Switzerland
  3. The model is Swiss: it was developed and trained here

What many people overlook: Not a single one of the sixteen offerings meets all three criteria. Instead, they illustrate three different ways in which providers approach the topic.

Option 1: Build Your Own Model

There is exactly one company taking this approach: Giotto.ai, based in Lausanne, is developing its own reasoning model called “Giotto 1,” embedded in a system that includes chat, document analysis, code support, and an API. The company was founded in 2017 and works with partners such as RUAG and SAP.

The “free cloud” service available starting in July 2026 sounds like open access, but there are some details to consider: The license only allows for non-commercial testing for twelve months, hosting is “in Europe,” and in early August, all buttons led to the contact form instead of the registration page. Swiss company, Swiss model, European hosting; independent performance tests are lacking.

Option 2: Global Selection Under the Swiss Banner

The second option: A Swiss company builds the user interface, while the models come from the major players.

  • mono.chat (Lucerne) aggregates dozens of models and automatically selects the most suitable one for each request; as of August 7, 2026, this also includes Apertus. The Solo founder discloses revenue figures and the training practices of the model providers; this level of transparency is rare. Your data is stored in Frankfurt and never goes to China; depending on the provider, the Chinese models are hosted in the U.S. or in Europe.
  • myAI (Swisscom) is the Swiss consumer chatbot with the widest reach; the basic version is free and knows the SBB schedule, the weather, and regional dialects. When it first launched, Claude ran in the background; today, the app no longer lists any models, and only personal use is permitted.
  • Lumo (Proton) encrypts your browsing history so that the provider cannot read it, and it runs without an account, via Tor, and in Ghost Mode. Since August 2025, the servers have been intentionally located in Germany; starting with version 2.0, the devices have been manufactured in China.
  • aibox (AI now AG, Baar) bundles ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity for small and medium-sized businesses starting at 29 francs per month; according to the provider, it will soon also include a yet-to-be-announced Swiss LLM layer featuring Apertus, Mistral, Kimi, Qwen, and Gemma. The promise that “data stays in Switzerland” is qualified by the company’s own privacy policy, and you are not allowed to use it for personal purposes.
  • Swiss Chat (Beyond-Bot.ai, Kleindöttingen) aggregates over 15 model providers—ranging from OpenAI and Anthropic to Apertus via its partner Phoeniqs—and can be used immediately without creating an account. One thing to note: Prices are listed in U.S. dollars rather than Swiss francs, and according to the privacy policy, data may also be stored outside of Switzerland and the EU, depending on the configuration.
  • PORTA (PowerOn AG, Zurich) automatically replaces sensitive terms with placeholders before a query reaches the AI, and users can register for it themselves in 2 minutes. The provider does not specify which model provides the responses, and the privacy policy covers only the website, not the AI product itself.

What these six have in common is that the company and the legal framework are Swiss, but the technology is not.

Option 3: Open models on Swiss servers

The Third Way brings open models to infrastructure in Switzerland:

  • Euria (Infomaniak) is free to use and requires no account; it is hosted entirely in its own Swiss data centers. Since May 2026, a nonprofit foundation has held the majority of voting rights. You cannot see which model is providing the responses; an NZZ test in February 2026 revealed that the responses reflected positions taken by the Chinese government.
  • botts.ai (Zug) is an agent platform featuring a website widget, a phone agent, and team chat. All data is stored in Switzerland, and a badge displays the countries where data is processed for each session. Among the models currently running here are Chinese ones (Qwen, Kimi, DeepSeek), but GPT-4.1/GPT-5.4 is now also running via Microsoft Azure Switzerland. The company has only been listed in the commercial register since 2025.
  • AlpineAI (Davos) serves the healthcare, government, and higher education sectors using its own hardware. With a seed funding round, a contract award from Zurich municipalities, and over 30 client references, it is the most mature of the smaller providers; other industries are on a waiting list.
  • Nectos (Geneva) is a new AI platform built on Swiss infrastructure with transparent legal documentation. The website does not disclose which models are in use.
  • Private AI Chat (Safe Swiss Cloud, Zurich) provides teams with their own container containing 18 open models, including Apertus. Self-service access is not available; onboarding is handled through the sales team.
  • EagleGPT (BE BRAVE AG, Rotkreuz) operates out of its own Swiss data center in Walenstadt, SG, and has included Apertus in its model mix since 2025. It recently introduced true self-registration, but pricing remains undisclosed.
  • PeakPrivacy (freihandlabor GmbH, Zurich) supports the rollout with workshops and four tiered model classes; the Swiss model is included by default, while the EU/U.S. models are available only upon explicit selection. Here, too, there is no self-service access, and Apertus is missing from the otherwise very transparently documented range of models.
  • MintSafe (Rhino digital education KLG, Titterten) runs on the open-source Dify engine, which uses Swiss models by default; international models are available only upon request. The advertised self-ordering feature is currently not working, and the linked privacy policy returns a 404 error.

And here’s a special case that doesn’t fit into any of the three categories: chat.publicai.co is the only freely accessible chat service hosted directly on Apertus, the open Swiss model developed by ETH and EPFL. It is operated by a U.S. nonprofit; data is stored in the U.S., and according to its own terms of service, the service does not offer localized storage in Switzerland or the EU.

Three Patterns That Stand Out

First: You often can’t tell which model is responding. In six of the sixteen services, the model is neither selectable nor visible. Euria quietly switched from Qwen3 to Qwen3.5; myAI replaces model names with “Fast” and “Thoughtful”; and Nectos doesn’t mention any at all. Yet the server location says nothing about the nature of the content, as the Euria case has shown.

Second: Promises of data sovereignty fall short when it comes to web search. AlpineAI promises that “data remains in Switzerland, without exception,” but qualifies this in its terms of service for web search. Nectos promises “no routing to foreign providers” but sends search queries to an unnamed third party. None of the smaller providers operates its own search infrastructure.

Third: Open-source models these days are mostly Chinese. Anyone operating open-source models in Switzerland or Europe relies on Qwen, GLM, Kimi, or DeepSeek. With Lumo 2.0, Proton has even actively switched from European to Chinese models because that’s where the performance lies. This isn’t a failure on the part of the provider, but it’s a fact you should be aware of.

What You Should Keep in Mind

You can ask any provider these eight questions; the answers can be found in their public documents:

  1. Where is the app running, and where are my chats? Two questions, not one.
  2. Where does the model come from? Silence is also a form of information.
  3. Does "no training with my data" appear in the contract, or is it only on the homepage?
  4. How long are my chats stored, and can I delete them?
  5. Who are the subcontractors, and where does the web search lead?
  6. Do the legal documents refer to the Swiss Data Protection Act or only to the GDPR?
  7. What does the free license say? Time limits are often hidden there.
  8. What level of liability and availability does the provider guarantee?

Sound like a lot of work? It takes about half an hour per provider. Compared to what you'll be entrusting to the tool later on, that's not much.

Conclusion

The most important thing to remember: “Swiss AI” is not a protected label. When considering any offering, ask which of the three approaches it follows and whether the company, hosting, or model is Swiss—because no one currently offers all three together. The ecosystem is growing, and with Apertus, the open Swiss model is now being integrated into products.

You can find all sixteen offerings on our Swiss AI Chats page, where you can filter by data location, free access, Apertus, self-registration, and certification, with expandable details on founding, reference customers, and support. We keep the information up to date.

Are you building a Swiss AI solution yourself? At Swiss AI Landscape, we’re making the ecosystem visible, and as a corporate member, you’re part of it.

What has been your experience with Swiss AI chatbots? Share your experiences in our community or email us at human@swissai.ch.

As of August 11, 2026. All information is sourced from the providers’ public sources, commercial registry data, and media reports. swissAI is a nonprofit and neutral organization: no recommendations, no rankings. An entry in the Swiss AI Landscape does not constitute a review.