Claude in the EU: key numbers

CC BY 4.0 · Facts verified on 18 September 2026

GDPR & AI Act

2 Aug 2026

date the EU AI Act became generally applicable

GDPR & AI Act

inference_geo values on the Anthropic API: global and us. No EU option.

AWS Bedrock

European AWS regions serving Claude via the EU geo inference profile

AWS Bedrock

EU regions with single-region Claude Sonnet 5 inference on Bedrock (Stockholm, Ireland via bedrock-mantle)

Pricing

+10 %

price premium for EU-pinned Claude endpoints on Bedrock and Google Cloud vs global

GDPR & AI Act

30 days

mandatory prompt retention for Claude Fable 5.1 on every platform (no zero data retention)

Microsoft Foundry

EU Data Zone deployment options for Claude on Microsoft Foundry (only Global Standard in Sweden Central)

Pricing

$2.20 / $11

Claude Sonnet 5 per 1M input / output tokens, EU geo profile on Bedrock (Frankfurt)

Google Vertex AI

12.5M

input tokens per minute default quota for Claude Sonnet 5 on Google Cloud’s EU multi-region