Cortecs key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- Cortecs GmbH
- Headquarters
- Austria (AT)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Data hosting
- Austria, Germany, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands
- Infrastructure
- Scaleway, OVHcloud, IONOS, Nebius
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Open source
- No
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Replaces
- OpenRouter, Amazon Bedrock Model Routing, LiteLLM
About Cortecs
Cortecs GmbH is a Vienna-based technology company providing a specialized large language model (LLM) routing service. The platform acts as an intelligent gateway for enterprise AI applications, allowing developers to access a wide variety of generative AI models through a single API while ensuring that data processing remains strictly within the European Union. By dynamically selecting endpoints based on user-defined criteria such as cost, performance, and legal compliance, Cortecs aims to optimize AI infrastructure for data-sensitive B2B environments. The service is built on the principle of digital sovereignty, offering an alternative to US-centric AI platforms. Cortecs integrates with European infrastructure providers like Scaleway, IONOS, and Mistral AI, providing tools for text generation, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and embeddings. A key feature is its 'Zero Data Retention' policy, which ensures that user payloads are not used for model training or stored longer than necessary for the immediate processing request.
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