# Pleias

Fully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350M-3B) explicitly built for EU AI Act compliance. Pleias is free, with no paid plan attached, at pleias.fr.

## Facts

- **Pricing tier:** Free
- **Works on:** Self-hosted, Web, API
- **Works in browser:** No

## Capabilities

- 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

## FAQ

### 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 396 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

### Can I use Pleias in a browser, or is there an app?

Pleias needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on self-hosting, the web and an API.

### 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?

DeepSeek Models is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Notable Open Models sub-category and is free. ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu), Falcon (TII) and Hunyuan (Tencent) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

## Related

- [Pleias alternatives](https://aitools.flocci.in/alternatives/pleias)
- [Notable Open Models](https://aitools.flocci.in/category/ai-models-local-execution/notable-open-models)
- [Best free open-weight AI models](https://aitools.flocci.in/best/best-notable-open-models)
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Source: Flocci AI Tools — https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/pleias

Facts last verified: October 2026