As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates Langdock 4/5 and nele.ai 1.5/5 in AI Agents & Assistants. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick Langdock and 0 pick nele.ai. Langdock scores higher on 6 of 6 criteria (Pricing transparency, Models & processing location, Integrations, connectors & knowledge, plus 3 more). Provenance — Langdock: EU-Made; nele.ai: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Langdock holds the higher mean on the seven criteria — nele.ai on none: closest at sovereignty 8.0 to 5.7 and data use and training 8.0 to 4.0, widest at agent capabilities 8.0 to 0.0 and integrations and knowledge 7.0 to 1.0; processing and models 8.2 to 2.5, admin and access 7.2 to 2.5, pricing transparency 7.2 to 1.5. Each line shows 6 judges leaning Langdock, 0 leaning nele.ai, 0 tie. Weighted totals shown run 7.5–7.9 for Langdock and 2.6–3.4 for nele.ai across five judges. The genuine split sits inside nele.ai's bench: three judges score 4 and three score 1 on admin and access, and processing and models spans 2–4; Langdock spread no criterion more than one point. Both list a German legal entity and EU-only data residency; ownership is unknown for both; subprocessor exposure reads unknown for Langdock, US Cloud Act for nele.ai. We declare no overall winner.
Choose Langdock if
You need agent workflows with human confirmation on agent action nodes — agent capabilities lean Langdock 8.0 to 0.0.
You need contractual no-training terms and a data processing agreement that concludes automatically, with 30-day post-termination deletion.
You need EU-only inference by default, EU data centres at rest, bring-your-own-key, and own-cloud or on-premises deployment.
Your team needs a 40-plus-model API alongside a working integration set — integrations and knowledge lean Langdock 7.0 to 1.0.
Your procurement requires published pricing detail before commitment — pricing transparency leans Langdock 7.2 to 1.5.
Choose nele.ai if
You need a published German contracting entity and named German server locations — nele.ai names Azure in Frankfurt and Hetzner in Germany.
You need a subprocessor list published with locations for each subprocessor.
You need single sign-on with SAML 2.0 and administrator knowledge bases — the captured pages show both.
You want AI providers instructed in writing not to store user inputs or use them for training, with log files capped at 30 days.
You want to license under a single published line — nele.ai publishes 'One license for all users'.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Automation Lead
Builds the agents that file tickets, draft offers and chase approvals across the ERP, CRM and wiki. Wants tools and actions with scoped permissions, MCP and an API, approval steps before anything is sent, run logs, and a way to test an agent before the whole company uses it.
Langdock
This judge's pick
nele.ai
Criterion by criterion
Data use, training & retention
Langdock
The terms commit that neither Langdock nor any model provider it engages may train on customer content, Azure models run with modified abuse monitoring described as zero data retention for prompts and outputs, and a DPA under Art. 28 GDPR is automatically concluded. Admins set the chat retention period, deletion behaviour is documented per feature for chats, agents, folders and knowledge bases, and data is deleted within 30 days of termination. I would want the same abuse-monitoring and zero-retention detail for every provider, not just Microsoft, before calling it fully accounted.
nele.ai
The privacy policy instructs the AI providers that user inputs may not be stored or used for training — framed as subject to the functions the providers make available — and states that logfiles are deleted or anonymised after at most 30 days and that personal data is deleted once its purpose ends; the vendor also claims GDPR conformity and ISO 27001 certification. Retention is stated for logs only, and beyond an agreement statement for the email service Brevo we found no public information on retention periods for chats and files, zero-retention terms with the model providers, or the terms of a data processing agreement covering the assistant itself.
Models & processing location
Langdock
EU-only processing is the default and inference leaves the EU only if a customer actively selects a global-deployment model, with data at rest still held in EU data centres and Frankfurt hosting under the Azure EU Data Boundary documented. Forty-plus models are offered across named providers, bring-your-own-key locks a workspace to only customer-configured models, and single-tenant, own-cloud and on-prem (Kubernetes via Helm) deployments are documented from 2,000 to 5,000 seats. A published per-model inference-region table and open-weight or self-hosted model support are not documented on the captured pages.
nele.ai
A German server location is published, hosting subprocessors are named as Hetzner in Germany and Microsoft Azure in Frankfurt, and the policy states that user inputs are processed on the vendor's own servers rather than sent directly to the AI providers. We found no public information on which models sit behind the assistant, who runs them, or on any administrator option to pin or restrict processing — even in the captured pages dedicated to AI models and their providers.
Admin, identity & access controls
Langdock
SAML 2.0 SSO with any compatible identity provider, SCIM, signed authn requests, domain verification, enforced MFA at the identity provider and IP restrictions give IT real control, and retrieval mirrors source-tool permissions one to one so an agent cannot read beyond its user. Usage analytics can be enabled or disabled per workspace with CSV and API exports of cost and token data. The governance module lets admins review, approve, flag or disable agents with compliance rules re-checked on every published version; we found no public information on exportable audit logs or streaming to a SIEM.
nele.ai
The captured pages include a product function page on single sign-on with SAML 2.0 and an administrator section covering knowledge bases, and the privacy policy describes user account registration. We found no public information on roles and groups, SCIM provisioning, group-level permissions over models and knowledge sources, audit logs or usage reporting — exactly the controls I need before an assistant is let anywhere near company systems.
Integrations, connectors & knowledge
Langdock
MCP is first-class: a directory of 79 officially operated remote servers, custom MCP servers connectable with OAuth 2.0 or API-key auth, MCP tools surfaced as actions with confirmation flows, MCP Apps rendering interactive UI in a sandboxed iframe in chat, an agent-to-agent protocol, plus a unified API, native connectors, Office add-ins, desktop and mobile apps and Zapier reach into 7,000 apps. We found no public information on incremental sync behaviour, webhooks, or source citations on grounded answers, which I need before pointing this at ERP and CRM flows.
nele.ai
Function pages on knowledge bases and retrieval-augmented generation, including an administrator view, are part of the capture, so grounding answers in company knowledge is clearly part of the design. We found no public information on connectors to file stores, wikis, mail, CRM, ticketing or ERP, on sync behaviour, on an API or webhooks, on open protocols such as MCP, or on how answers cite their sources — the pieces I would need before wiring anything into ERP, CRM or the wiki.
Agent capabilities & guardrails
Langdock
This is what I look for: action nodes with human confirmation so nothing is sent without approval, workflow pauses with approve, reject and form input, conditions so only some runs need a person, a workflow monitor for pending steps, and a builder test toggle with test runs that skip notifications. Agents get versioned publishing where later edits stay drafts until published, scheduling, scoped write folders, subagents, Slack and Teams channels, and a governance view exposing each agent's instructions, integrations, costs and history with the power to disable it until fixed. Evaluation against defined test sets and documented failure handling beyond a general output disclaimer are not documented.
nele.ai
We found no public information on agent capabilities — multi-step tasks, tool use or actions in other systems, approval steps before consequential actions, run logs, or testing and evaluation before release. The homepage, the data protection and security page and the terms of use were among the pages we read.
European sovereignty
Langdock
Langdock GmbH in Berlin (registered under HRB 254499) is the contracting entity under German law with exclusive jurisdiction in Berlin, hosting runs on Microsoft Azure in Frankfurt with the EU Data Boundary, and a published subprocessor list names every model provider with its location, including OpenAI Ireland, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, plus Sentry in the US covered by SCCs and Data Privacy Framework safeguards. Transfers outside the EU happen only on the customer's instruction, and ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II certificates are published. We found no public information on the company's ownership structure, so I credit the dimensions the evidence proves.
nele.ai
The contracting entity is GAL Digital GmbH of Hungen, Germany, with register court, register number and managing directors published, hosting is stated as German on named infrastructure — Hetzner and Microsoft Azure in Frankfurt — and the privacy policy lists subprocessors with their locations, almost all German, with Stripe and Webflow in the USA under the Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses. For an AI product the decisive subprocessor is the model provider, and we found no public information naming the providers behind the assistant or where their processing runs. The vendor claims GDPR conformity and ISO 27001 certification, and we found no public information on a data processing agreement covering the assistant itself.
Pricing transparency
Langdock
Public per-seat prices of €23.20 standard and €99.00 Business Max with 5x usage (both excluding VAT, 20% off annual), workflow tiers with 2,500 runs included and €449 per workspace per month for 40,000 runs, a €2.80 governance add-on free until January 1, 2027, and per-token API rates make most of an annual bill computable. The included usage quantity per seat rests on a fair-use policy rather than published numbers, overage is not priced, the exact governance add-on price varies by seat count without a published scale, and Enterprise pricing is on request.
nele.ai
The published statement is that one license covers all users — a cost unit, but no figures. We found no public information on what the license costs, which models or functions it includes, usage limits, overage, minimum seats or term, so an annual cost cannot be worked out from the pages we read.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
Langdock
nele.ai
Legal entity
Not determined
Not determined
Ownership
Not determined
Not determined
Data residency
Not determined
Not determined
Subprocessors
Not determined
Not determined
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates Langdock higher: 4/5 against 1.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick Langdock and 0 pick nele.ai. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Langdock or nele.ai European?
Langdock is European (EU-Made). nele.ai is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do Langdock and nele.ai store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — Langdock: Default not stated; pages mention Europe. nele.ai: Default not stated; pages mention Germany.