Cohere North alternatives: 10 tools compared (October 2026)

Dust is a platform for building AI agents that work with a company's own data and tools, aimed at teams that want to create assistants for their workflows without programming, with EU or US hosting.

Key functions

• Custom agents on more than 20 models including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral and DeepSeek
• Connectors to company data
• Remote MCP servers

Compared with Cohere North

• Publishes a price (from €24 per user/month); Cohere North quotes on request.
• Can store data in the EU; Cohere North states no EU option.
• Headquartered in France, Cohere North in Canada.
• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Cohere North does not.

Check before buying: Business includes up to 3 connectors and 5 remote MCP servers, so count the systems you want to connect. Credits reset monthly without rollover. Dust's privacy policy notes that data may be transferred to the United States; review the subprocessor list.

Langdock is a Berlin-based AI platform that gives companies chat, configurable agents, workflows and API access to many language models in one EU-hosted workspace, from small teams to organizations with more than 1,000 users.

Key functions

• Agents grounded in uploaded company knowledge for recurring tasks and team workflows
• More than 25 native connectors and MCP support; MCP tools become agent actions with confirmation
• Workflows for AI automations, 2,500 runs a month included

Compared with Cohere North

• Publishes a price (from €25 per user/month); Cohere North quotes on request.
• Offers a free trial; we found none for Cohere North.
• Can store data in the EU; Cohere North states no EU option.
• Headquartered in Germany, Cohere North in Canada.

Check before buying: Check which models run in the EU and which in global regions, and decide which ones may process personal data. Workflows and API access cost extra, and the governance package becomes paid from January 1, 2027. In Germany, agents that analyze employee data involve the works council. Langdock provides its DPA through the trust center.

meinGPT is an AI workspace for German small and midsize companies from SelectCode GmbH near Munich, offering chat, custom assistants, meeting notes and workflows with hosting in Germany and the EU.

Key functions

• Chat and file analysis with several models
• Meeting transcription and summaries
• Custom assistants

Compared with Cohere North

• Publishes a price (from €18 per user/month); Cohere North quotes on request.
• Offers a free trial; we found none for Cohere North.
• Can store data in the EU; Cohere North states no EU option.
• Headquartered in Germany, Cohere North in Canada.

Check before buying: Plan the model budget on top of the license, since it is billed separately. At our check in September 2026 the pricing page mentioned Microsoft, Google and magic-link login but no dedicated SAML SSO; ask the vendor if you need it. Ask which model providers process data and where.

Microsoft Copilot is the AI assistant inside Microsoft 365, answering questions and drafting content from a company's own email, documents, meetings and chats, aimed at organizations that already use Microsoft 365.

Key functions

• Chat grounded in email, documents, calendar and chats
• Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams
• Prebuilt agents such as Researcher and Analyst

Compared with Cohere North

• Publishes a price (from €18.20 per user/month); Cohere North quotes on request.
• Can store data in the EU; Cohere North states no EU option.
• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Cohere North does not.
• Different pricing model: per user instead of contact for pricing.

Check before buying: Copilot shows everything a user is allowed to open, so clean up SharePoint and Teams permissions first. Decide whether to allow Anthropic models, which fall outside the EU Data Boundary. The SMB bundles apply up to 300 users. In the US, check state rules such as those in Colorado and Illinois if Copilot output supports decisions about employees.

Mistral Vibe, known as Le Chat until 2026, is the AI assistant of the Paris model developer Mistral AI for work and coding tasks, with EU data hosting by default and on-premises options for enterprises.

Key functions

• Research across the web, internal documents and connected tools
• Creates and edits PDFs, decks and reports
• More than 100 tools via connectors and MCP

Compared with Cohere North

• Publishes a price (from €14.99 per month); Cohere North quotes on request.
• Can store data in the EU; Cohere North states no EU option.
• Headquartered in France, Cohere North in Canada.
• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Cohere North does not.

Check before buying: Some features can temporarily transfer data outside the EU to subprocessors listed in Mistral's trust center; Enterprise customers can switch off some of these features at organization level. SAML SSO is only listed for Enterprise. Review the public data processing addendum before rollout.

Gemini in Google Workspace brings Google's AI assistant into Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet and Drive and adds the standalone Gemini app, for companies that already run their office work on Google Workspace.

Key functions

• Gemini app for chat, drafting and analysis
• Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive and Meet
• Gemini Notebook summarizes documents and turns them into visual aids

Compared with Cohere North

• Publishes a price (from €6.80 per user/month); Cohere North quotes on request.
• Offers a free trial; we found none for Cohere North.
• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Cohere North does not.
• Names 3 security certificates, Cohere North 1.

Check before buying: Gemini respects existing Workspace sharing rights, so review folder and drive permissions before rollout, since the assistant can surface anything a user can open. The pricing page does not state data regions; ask Google which data location options your edition includes. Check which Gemini functions your plan tier covers.

Glean is an enterprise search and AI assistant platform that connects to a company's apps and answers questions from internal knowledge while respecting each user's permissions. It targets large organizations and adds agents that automate work across teams.

Key functions

• Search across documents and data in all connected apps, permission-aware
• Glean Assistant answers questions from company knowledge
• Glean Agents automate workflows across teams

Compared with Cohere North

• Names 3 security certificates, Cohere North 1.
• Strongest elsewhere: United States.

Check before buying: Pricing is only available on request, so ask for a quote that covers connectors and agent use. The public pages do not name hosting regions; ask where data is stored and whether a deployment in your own cloud tenant fits your setup. Check permission hygiene in source systems first, since search reflects existing access rights.

PromptDrive is a web workspace where teams collect, organize and share prompts and can chat with several AI models from the same place. It targets small and midsize teams that want a simple shared prompt library.

Key functions

• Chat with ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini directly inside the prompt workspace
• Prompts with variables for recurring tasks
• Chrome extension for quick access to saved prompts

Compared with Cohere North

• Publishes a price (from $5 per user/month); Cohere North quotes on request.
• Headquartered in Germany, Cohere North in Canada.
• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Cohere North does not.
• Different pricing model: per user instead of contact for pricing.

Check before buying: Ask mdk.digital where prompts are stored and whether a data processing agreement is available, since the website did not state this in September 2026. Chats in the Business plan run through your own API keys, so the data terms of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google also apply. SSO is not mentioned on the website.