# Aleph Alpha Workspace — AI Agents & Assistants

Aleph Alpha Workspace by Aleph Alpha GmbH holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-10-28. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Aleph Alpha GmbH (https://aleph-alpha.com)
- Category: [AI Agents & Assistants](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/aleph-alpha
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/aleph-alpha/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/aleph-alpha/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-29 · evaluated 2026-10-28 · oldest source captured 2026-10-26

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Aleph Alpha GmbH
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Aleph Alpha Workspace, from Aleph Alpha GmbH of Heidelberg, is described as a sovereign AI workspace combining enterprise-grade chat with agents, skills and connectors, scalable to 100,000+ users. The bench's strongest signal is processing and models, at 4-6 with five of six judges at 6: the models are the vendor's own — Kolibri and the Specialized Sovereign LLMs — built in Germany, trained in Europe, small enough to run on-prem; where the hosted workspace runs inference is not stated. Admin and access is flat at 2: we found no public information on single sign-on, roles or an admin console, only per-response records traceable to a named user, model and prompt. Data use and training is the genuine split: one judge credits the custody statement and auditable weights, while the data protection officer scores 1, reading "proprietary data always stays with customers" as a custody claim rather than a training exclusion or retention commitment. Sovereignty scores 4-6; pricing transparency sits at 0.

**Speaks for it:**
- Models are the vendor's own — Kolibri and the Specialized Sovereign LLMs — built in Germany and trained in Europe
- On-prem deployment is offered, described as giving customers control over where and how models are deployed
- Every response is stated to cite its sources and leave a record traceable to a named user, model and prompt
- Model weights, training data and curation are described as transparent and fully auditable for customers, with a voluntary legal report
- The contracting entity is Aleph Alpha GmbH, registered at the Mannheim court (HRB 732804) with a German VAT number

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on single sign-on, provisioning, role or group permissions, or an admin console for the workspace
- The privacy policy covers website, recruiting, newsletter and analytics channels, and we found no public information on retention or training use for workspace chats, files and outputs
- We found no public information on where hosted workspace customer data resides, on product-level subprocessors, or on a data processing agreement — the named processors (Namecheap and Ashby in the USA, Fastly, Mailchimp) serve the website, recruiting and newsletter
- We found no public information on a connector catalogue, sync behaviour, or support for open protocols such as MCP; the only documented API serves the Kolibri model
- We found no public information on run logs, triggers, schedules or evaluation before release for agents; the stated human-approval mechanism applies to the separate engineering workbench

**Best for:**
- You operate in public sector, defense or industry and want models built in Germany and trained in Europe by a German-registered vendor
- You need on-prem deployment of the vendor's own models and direct API access to Kolibri for mission-critical environments
- You need every response to cite its sources and remain traceable to a named user, model and prompt
- You want a custom agentic workspace solution built with a forward-deployed team, described as maintainable and portable after go-live

**Avoid if:**
- Your rollout depends on single sign-on, provisioning and group-level permissions being documented up front — registration as described is individual (name, email, organisation type, eligibility reason, password)
- You must clear retention and training-use terms for workspace chats and uploaded files before adoption — the published privacy policy addresses website, recruiting, newsletter and analytics channels
- You need a named connector catalogue or open-protocol support before committing — connectors are described at a general level and the only documented API serves the Kolibri model

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Head of IT | The Data Protection Officer | The Automation Lead | The Customer-Service Director | The Works Council Member | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Data use, training & retention | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Models & processing location | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
| Admin, identity & access controls | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Integrations, connectors & knowledge | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Agent capabilities & guardrails | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** | **1.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Head of IT** (v1.0): Has to roll an AI assistant out to eight hundred staff without a second shadow-IT wave. Wants SSO and SCIM, groups that decide who gets which model, agent and connector, answers that respect SharePoint permissions, audit logs for the SIEM, and a deployment option that is not "trust us".
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Signs the DPA and gets asked where a prompt goes. Wants every model provider named as a subprocessor with its region, training excluded for all of them, retention the company controls, and an EU-only switch that also covers agents and connectors — not just the chat window.
- **The Automation Lead** (v1.0): 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.
- **The Customer-Service Director** (v1.0): Runs a contact centre with forty agents and wants half the routine calls and chats answered by an AI agent. Wants handover to a human with the full context, actions in the order and ticket systems, evaluation before go-live, and a price per conversation the CFO can forecast.
- **The Works Council Member** (v1.0): Has a co-determination right the moment a tool can monitor staff, and an AI assistant logs every prompt. Wants usage reports that can be aggregated or pseudonymised, prompt logging rules set out in writing, a human approving what agents do to colleagues, and no training on staff input.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read "European AI" on a wrapper that sends every prompt to a US model, "agents" that are saved prompts, and "we never train on your data" with no word on the model provider behind it. Asks which model answers, where it runs, what it may do unsupervised, and what a thousand seats cost.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Complaint authority: Baden-Württemberg [S4]
- EU AI act: yes · yes [S5]
- Weights auditable: yes [S5]

**Data**
- Application retention: 1 · 6 [S4]
- Deletion policy: delete or anonymize when no longer needed unless stated otherwise [S4]
- Google analytics retention: 14 [S4]
- Ip anonymization: yes [S4]
- Newsletter retention: 2 · 48 [S4]
- Website visit collection: IP address · approximate location · ISP · connection speed · date/time · referrer · browser · OS · hardware [S4]

**Hosting**
- Built in germany europe: Germany · Europe [S5]
- Deployment on prem: yes [S5]
- Headquarters: Heidelberg · Berlin · Bayreuth · München [S5]
- Infrastructure agnostic: yes [S5]

**Legal**
- Company name: Aleph Alpha GmbH [S5]
- Consumer dispute resolution: no · no [S3]
- Entity: Aleph Alpha GmbH [S1]
- Entity: Aleph Alpha GmbH · aleph-alpha.com [S4]
- Entity name: Aleph Alpha GmbH [S3]
- Heidelberg office: Speyerer Straße 14, 69115 Heidelberg [S1]
- Privacy email: privacy@aleph-alpha.com [S4]
- Privacy policy version: 2024-09-04 [S4]
- Register court: Mannheim [S3]
- Register number: HRB 732804 [S3]
- VAT id: DE322477849 [S3]

**Product**
- AI in recruiting: yes · no · yes [S4]
- Custom solutions: Custom agentic workspace solutions built by a forward deployed team on open standards and modular components, maintainable, scalable and portable after go-live [S2]
- Customer data stays: yes [S5]
- Explainability: yes [S5]
- Flexible adoption: bring your own application · buy off the shelf · customize together [S5]
- Grounded answers: yes [S5]
- Industrial engineering workbench: Standalone engineering solution or Siemens Polarion extension for analysing requirement specifications, with source-cited suggestions that can be approved or corrected in place [S2]
- Kolibri API: yes [S1]
- Kolibri model: Kolibri - specialized sovereign LLM for mission critical environments [S5]
- Kolibri sovereign model: Kolibri is a sovereign AI model, a Specialized Sovereign Large Language Model for Mission Critical Environments [S1]
- Legal report: yes [S5]
- Long term support: yes [S5]
- Models: Specialized Sovereign LLMs [S1]
- Multilingual german: yes [S5]
- Platform: Platform to securely build, scale, and optimize AI solutions [S1]
- Registration fields: name · email · organization type · reason for registration / eligibility · password [S4]
- Services: Forward deployed expert services [S1]
- Solutions: Agentic AI applications [S1]
- Target domains: public sector · defense · industry [S5]
- Workspace essentials: Sovereign AI workspace with enterprise-grade chat, agents, skills, connectors; cited responses traceable to named user, model and prompt; compliance by design; scalable to 100,000+ users [S2]

**Subprocessors**
- Ashby: Ashby · recruiting and applicant management · USA [S4]
- Fastly: Fastly · content delivery network [S4]
- Mailchimp: Mailchimp · newsletter delivery [S4]
- Namecheap: Namecheap · website hosting · USA [S4]

**Support**
- Channels: Sales, Support, Press, Careers, General inquiry inquiry channels [S1]
- Channels: Contact channels: Sales, Support (external link), Press, Careers (external link), General inquiry; LinkedIn, X, GitHub social links [S2]

## Questions

### Is Aleph Alpha Workspace European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Aleph Alpha Workspace as EU-Made.

### Where does Aleph Alpha Workspace store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

### Does Aleph Alpha Workspace have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Aleph Alpha Workspace?

As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Langdock (4/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/langdock), [Dust (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/dust) and [Unique AI (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/unique-ai) highest among the other 15 AI Agents & Assistants products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Langdock](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/langdock) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Aleph Alpha Workspace alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/aleph-alpha/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We found no public information on pricing on the pages we read (aleph-alpha.com/en, aleph-alpha.com/en/solutions, aleph-alpha.com/impressum, aleph-alpha.com/datenschutz, aleph-alpha.com/en/models-overview). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- 5 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 subprocessors fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://aleph-alpha.com/en/ (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S2] Solutions page (Workspace Essentials): https://aleph-alpha.com/en/solutions/ (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S3] Legal notice: https://aleph-alpha.com/impressum/ (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S4] Privacy policy: https://aleph-alpha.com/datenschutz/ (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S5] Models & processing location — found from sitemap: https://aleph-alpha.com/en/models-overview/ (checked 2026-10-26)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Aleph Alpha Workspace — AI Agents & Assistants", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-29. https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/aleph-alpha

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