STACKIT AI Model Serving
STACKIT AI Model Serving is the managed LLM offering of STACKIT, the cloud arm of Germany's Schwarz Group (Lidl and Kaufland). It is aimed at organisations that want open-source language models served from Germany with strict data sovereignty — the platform is described as "the data-sovereign STACKIT Cloud" with "100% European DNA".
The service runs from a German region (EU01), and STACKIT states that "your data and queries are neither stored nor used to train models". It carries ISO 27001 and BSI C5 certificates, two of the most relevant German enterprise assurances. Models such as Llama 3.1 are integrated into applications via API and billed per token.
Because STACKIT already underpins Schwarz Group's own retail operations, it appeals to enterprises that value a large European operator over a US hyperscaler. In the EU AI cloud landscape it sits alongside IONOS and Open Telekom Cloud as a German-operated option.