Eight reasons to switch, each with its proof.

Give it a task, not just a question: in Agent mode the model writes Word, PDF and Excel documents, generates images and, if you switch web search on, searches the web and lists its sources, step by step, until the task is done — within a spending cap you set (€2 by default), and with no code ever run. Its files stay in your browser.

Proof: Agent mode · Web search · Image generation

Every model Evanesca serves runs in Europe — in France by Scaleway (Paris) and OVHcloud (Gravelines, as a fallback), in Mistral AI's EU region, in Germany by AKI.IO or in Switzerland by Infomaniak (outside the EU, under an EU adequacy decision). No model call leaves Europe: not as a backup, not when servers are busy. None of these companies has a US parent, so they are out of the CLOUD Act's direct reach. Servers in Europe are not enough on their own: a US company stays subject to the CLOUD Act wherever its servers are, so Evanesca also looks at who controls the operator. Web search is off by default; if you switch it on, the queries the model writes, and the addresses of the pages it reads, go to Linkup, a French company — Evanesca has not verified where its servers run; its own privacy policy applies.

Proof: Sovereignty · What the CLOUD Act says · Web search

Your prompt and the answer stay in memory only while the answer is written; your history and the agent's files live in your browser. About your messages, Evanesca keeps only billing data — tokens and cost — and never uses them to train AI. The operators have their own rules, always stated: Scaleway may keep and read requests that cause errors or look abusive, for up to 14 days; Mistral AI keeps its API's inputs and outputs for 30 days to monitor abuse — that covers Mistral Large 4 and Mistral Small 4 and dictation — and lets its customers object to training: Evanesca's account objects, except for what is sent to Mistral Large 4: it is a preview, and Mistral's commercial terms let it use the data of preview models for training, whatever the objection; Linkup, which runs the web searches when you switch them on, follows its own privacy policy.

Proof: Transparency · The answer passport

Each answer says which model wrote it, who ran it and where, under which law, and what was kept — no content. Every model shows its checks before you use it, and a missing check is printed on the passport, not hidden.

Proof: The passport, field by field

Models from Mistral AI, the Swiss AI Initiative, Qwen, DeepSeek, Z.ai, OpenAI, Meta and Google, all run in Europe. Every model shows its checks before you use it — Licence, Provenance, Security, GDPR, Benchmarks and Live test — and the ones it misses are printed, not hidden. Of the 17 models Evanesca serves, 16 have open weights: the same model can run elsewhere, with no lock-in. More models will join when a European operator runs them.

Proof: Every model · Benchmarks

No subscription: credit from €2, each purchase with its invoice. Credit never expires, not even if you close your account. Prices include VAT, and the exact cost of each answer shows under it. A web search costs €0.0076, a FLUX.1 [schnell] image about €0.02 in generation time, and every Agent task has its cap.

Proof: Pricing

A Business workspace adds a signed Art. 28 DPA, the sub-processor list with notice before any change, SSO and roles, spending limits on top of each task's cap, VAT invoices and passport exports.

Proof: Business

The same models through an OpenAI-compatible API — chat completions, the model list and embeddings — at https://evanesca.app/api/v1, with your key in an Authorization: Bearer header. Code written for OpenAI's SDK only needs a new base URL and a new key.

Proof: Developer docs

Summarise a contract, compare two versions, list the clauses to renegotiate: the model that reads it runs in Europe, and Evanesca keeps no copy.

Draft a letter, summarise a policy, check a payslip. Not for deciding about people: the AI Act treats that use as high-risk.

Hand the agent a question that needs the web, with web search switched on: it searches, reads and gives you a memo as a PDF, its sources listed. Check the ones that matter.

Debug, review or explain code: Evanesca keeps no copy of it.

Analyse results, a budget or a deal memo before they are announced: Evanesca keeps no copy.

An image for a post or an invitation, made in Switzerland for about €0.02. Never a picture of a real person without their consent — and never an intimate one, even with it.