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Pleias

Fully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350M-3B) explicitly built for EU AI Act compliance

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What Pleias does

  • Fully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350M-3B) explicitly built for EU AI Act compliance
  • Trained exclusively on the 2-trillion-token open Common Corpus, not scraped/licensed text
  • Purpose-built RAG models (Pleias-RAG-350M/1B) with built-in citation tracking, Apache 2.0 licensed

Pleias — straight answers

What is Pleias?

Pleias is listed under Notable Open Models, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Fully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350M-3B) explicitly built for EU AI Act compliance. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at pleias.fr.

Is Pleias free?

Pleias is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 115 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Pleias do?

Pleias does 3 things the catalog singles out: Fully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350m-3b) explicitly built for eu ai act compliance; trained exclusively on the 2-trillion-token open common corpus, not scraped/licensed text; purpose-built rag models (pleias-rag-350m/1b) with built-in citation tracking, apache 2.0 licensed.

What is the best free alternative to Pleias?

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