Melious provides a unified API endpoint for accessing top AI models hosted entirely on European infrastructure. The platform emphasizes data privacy and sovereignty, ensuring user data remains within the EU jurisdiction and is not used for model training. It also offers tools for connecting proprietary knowledge bases and sharing community-built agents and workflows.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Many organizations rely on AI services hosted on US-based cloud platforms, exposing data to foreign jurisdictions, incurring high latency, and lacking transparency around environmental impact. Switching between multiple model providers also introduces operational complexity and vendor lock‑in, while open‑source alternatives often require extensive engineering effort to integrate. These constraints limit the ability of privacy‑sensitive and sustainability‑focused businesses to adopt advanced generative AI at scale.
Solution
Melious delivers a European‑hosted, privacy‑first AI platform that aggregates dozens of open‑source models behind a single, OpenAI‑compatible API. An orchestrated engine automatically selects the optimal model for each request, routes across multiple EU providers with millisecond failover, and enriches responses with source citations and anti‑hallucination checks. Every API call includes real‑time metrics on carbon, water, and energy consumption, enabling users to monitor and optimize their environmental footprint. The platform also offers a Kit for seamless integration of proprietary knowledge bases and tools, a Chat interface that securely processes documents and tool calls, and a Hub marketplace where pre‑built AI solutions can be shared and reused without lock‑in. All data remains within the EU, is never used for model training, and is protected by end‑to‑end encryption, meeting GDPR and ISO‑27001 compliance out of the box.
Target Audience
The primary customers are developers and enterprise teams in regulated sectors (e.g., fintech, healthcare, legal) that require GDPR‑compliant, low‑latency AI services, as well as SaaS providers seeking a sustainable, multi‑model inference layer.
Features
- OpenAI‑compatible endpoint (`https://api.melious.ai/v1`) supporting chat, embeddings, image generation, audio transcription, and tool execution.
- Multi‑provider routing across five European cloud partners with automatic failover and routing presets for speed, cost, quality, or lowest carbon impact.
- Environmental impact tracking per request (CO₂, water, energy, renewable share) displayed in the API response.
- Orchestrator layer that decomposes complex queries, selects the best model, and validates outputs via anti‑hallucination checks and source citations.
- Prompt Engineer and Context Engineer modules that rewrite prompts and fetch relevant context from connected knowledge bases, eliminating manual prompt tuning.
- Privacy‑first design: data never leaves EU jurisdiction, is never used for model training, and is encrypted with user‑controlled keys.
- Hub marketplace for community‑curated AI solutions, blueprints, and integrations built on open standards with no vendor lock‑in.
- Kit SDK for connecting documents, databases, and SaaS tools, providing persistent context across sessions.