frequently asked questions.
The EU-sovereign AI coding agent for non-coders — where your data lives, which models it runs, whether your institution can approve it, who it's for, and what it costs.
What is MakeMode?
MakeMode is an EU-sovereign AI coding agent for non-coders. You describe what you want in plain language, watch it build, and publish a real, shareable link — all on European infrastructure (Scaleway, France), with nothing leaving the EU. It's simple enough for a first-year design student who has never coded, and serious enough for a research lab.
Is there an EU or GDPR-compliant alternative to Lovable, Cursor, v0, or Bolt?
Yes — MakeMode is that alternative. It offers the same describe-to-build-to-publish loop, but inference, storage, and publishing all run in the EU (France) on open models, so it's the option a European university, lab, or company is actually allowed to use on real work.
Does my data leave the EU?
No. Inference runs on Scaleway Generative APIs in France (fr-par), your published projects land on EU object storage, and identity stays on EU infrastructure. No US vendor sits in the product path. The marketing site itself sets no cookies, runs no third-party trackers, and loads nothing from outside the EU.
Is MakeMode GDPR compliant?
Yes, by design. It runs in a single French data-processing region, the institution is the data controller and MakeMode the processor under a DPA, only minimal data is collected (no advertising, no profiling, no resale), and sub-processors operate under data-processing agreements. See the privacy and trust pages for the full detail.
Can my university or company actually approve MakeMode?
That's the point of it. Because everything runs on EU-sovereign, GDPR-native infrastructure and nothing can be switched off by a company on another continent, MakeMode is built to clear European procurement and data-protection review — including DPAs, a sub-processor list, the data-flow map, and a DPIA.
Which AI models does it use? Are they open and EU-hosted?
Open-weight models served from Scaleway's Generative APIs in France — for example Mistral, GLM and Devstral. They run on European infrastructure, not a US API, which is what makes the sovereignty claim hold.
Who is MakeMode for?
Non-coders who need to build real things: design students making portfolios and prototypes, university staff and company teams who can't send work to US infrastructure, and researchers who want a real coding agent on sovereign EU infrastructure. The first market is design education, expanding to company staff and scientific computing.
What can I build with it?
Single-page sites and real interactive software: portfolios, prototypes, posters, product pages, interactive explainers, data visualisations, small tools — then publish them to a live EU-hosted link you can share. Researchers can drive a fuller coding agent with real terminal, files, and compute. See what it looks like →
How do I use it — do I need to install anything?
Three ways from one EU account: in the browser with nothing to install, as a desktop app, or through your own terminal (opencode). It's metered in France on a shared balance of credits. The three ways to use it →
Is MakeMode open source, and what does it cost?
MakeMode is built on open source and open-weight models, owned by the public sector that funds it. You can try it free in the browser with no install; usage beyond that is metered on EU infrastructure.