EU-origin
DeepL
DeepL SE · Cologne, DD · Founded 2017
Minimal riskEU dataISO 27001EUR pricingFree tierAPI
DeepL set the benchmark for machine translation quality in 2017 and has held it since. Built in Cologne on curated training data, it covers 30-plus languages — and now reaches beyond translation into grammar and style with DeepL Write.
Company background
Legal entity
DeepL SE
HQ
Cologne, DD
Founded
2017
Employees
500+
Funding stage
profitable
Website
Data & privacy
Data residency
EU onlyself-declared
EU data confirmed
No
Sub-processor list
EU representative
Not confirmed
Certifications
ISO 27001
Yes✓ Prudos-verified
SOC 2
Yes
AI Act posture
Risk classification
Minimal riskself-declared
Article 50 posture
compliantself-declared
GPAI dependency
Own models (DeepL LLM, not third-party GPAI)
Classification note
Translation API and platform; Article 50 transparency needed where AI output presented as human-authored content
EU AI Act Readiness Badge
—
Product & market
Pricing model
usage-based, per-seat, flat
Pricing page
Free tier
Yes
EUR pricing
Yes✓ Prudos-verified
API
Available
API documentation
Languages
en, de, fr, es, it, nl, pl, pt, ja, zh, + 32 total
Markets with customers
DE, FR, UK, NL, PL, EU broadlyself-declared
EU-vs-EU · alternatives in this category
| DeepL | Flexmail | Brevo | Leadinfo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Act risk | Minimal riskself-declared | Minimal riskself-declared | Minimal riskself-declared | Limited riskself-declared |
| Data residency | EU onlyself-declared | EU only✓ verified | EU + US fallbackself-declared | EU only✓ verified |
| EUR pricing | Yes✓ verified | Yesself-declared | Yes✓ verified | Yesself-declared |
| ISO 27001 | Yes✓ verified | Yesself-declared | Yesself-declared | — |
| Free tier | Yes | — | Yes | Yes |
EU-vs-US · international context
| DeepL | HubSpot Marketing | ZoomInfo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incorporated | DD | United States | United States |
| Data residency | EU onlyself-declared | US-primary, EU region optional | US-primary |
| AI Act posture | Minimal riskself-declared | Not classified | Not classified |
| EUR pricing | Yes✓ verified | USD-primary | USD-primary |
| Schrems-II risk | Low — EU only (self-declared) | Data flows to US — risk applies | Data flows to US — risk applies |
EU-origin data from Prudos listings. US tool characteristics reflect publicly available information and are indicative.