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Freepik

IA souveraine · Espagne
Fondé en 2010 · freepik.com

Spanish AI image generation platform (Pikaso, F Lite model), rebranded to Magnific in April 2026; majority-owned by Swedish PE firm EQT; 200M+ users.

Freepik propose un hébergement européen en Espagne, mais une maison mère ou un sous-traitant américain laisse une exposition matérielle au CLOUD Act. Référencé dans la catégorie IA souveraine.

Notes d’évaluation

Freepik (Málaga, Spain; founded 2010; majority-owned by Swedish PE EQT, Nasdaq Stockholm, which is EU-owned) operates Pikaso, a text-to-image generator powered by their own F Lite open model (April 2025) and Stable Diffusion, with 200M+ users. EU-owned with no US-PE majority, but no public DPA, no public sub-processors list, and no EU-specific certifications found at audit; hosting infrastructure undisclosed. Re-verified 2026-08-26: the company rebranded to Magnific on 28 April 2026 (same legal entity, Freepik Company S.L.U.), a DPA is now obtainable on request via rpd@magnific.com, and — decisively for this category — the platform is a multi-model aggregator that routes generation to third-party providers including US ones (GPT Image 2, Google Imagen 4 / Nano Banana, Veo, Runway Gen-4), with the privacy policy itself conceding that some models are hosted in EU-adequate countries and others are not. That moves cloud_act_exposure from minor to material: core prompt and image data flows through US-owned model providers.

Constats

CLOUD Act
Actionnariat
Sous-traitants
— non divulgué

Signaux vérifiés

Juridiction
  • Hébergement UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Opérateur UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Aucune exposition au CLOUD Act: Non
Transparence
  • DPA public: Non
  • Sous-traitants divulgués: Non
  • Clients open source: Oui
  • Certification tierce: Non
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À propos de Freepik

Freepik is a Málaga-based Spanish technology platform founded in 2010 by Alejandro Sánchez, Pablo Blanes, and Joaquín Cuenca. Originally a search engine for stock design resources, the company has evolved into a full-stack generative AI image platform. The AI offering centres on Pikaso, Freepik's own text-to-image generator, and F Lite (an open text-to-image model released in April 2025, trained on commercially licensed "safe-for-work" images) alongside Freepik Enterprise (launched May 2025) for organisation-level AI image generation with centralised management, brand safeguards, and legal indemnification for generated content.

The company has grown aggressively through acquisitions: Videvo (stock video/audio, June 2022), Iconfinder (icon platform, October 2022), EyeEm (photography marketplace, October 2023), and most notably Magnific (Spanish AI image upscaling startup, May 2024), whose technology now powers AI enhancement and upscaling inside the platform. On 28 April 2026 the whole company rebranded to Magnific, keeping the same legal entity, Freepik Company S.L.U. of Málaga, and moving the site and legal pages to magnific.com. The company is majority-owned by EQT AB, a Swedish private equity firm listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, which acquired a majority stake in 2020. EQT is EU-headquartered (Stockholm), making Freepik's beneficial ownership EU-controlled with no US PE or US parent exposure in the primary ownership chain.

From an EU-sovereignty stance, Freepik presents a straightforward eu_owned case on the ownership axis: Spanish incorporation, Swedish (EU) PE majority-shareholder, founders still involved. The compliance picture is weaker: no public DPA URL, no sub-processors list and no EU-specific certifications (C5, EUCS, SecNumCloud, ISO 27001) were found at audit, although a DPA is obtainable on request from rpd@magnific.com. The company's own hosting infrastructure is still not publicly detailed, but the model layer is no longer unclear: the platform is a multi-model aggregator that routes generation to third-party providers, among them GPT Image 2 (OpenAI), Imagen 4 and Nano Banana (Google), Veo 3.1 (Google) and Runway Gen-4, all US-owned, alongside in-house Mystic and Pikaso and several non-US models. The privacy policy states that users select from multiple AI models, some hosted in countries the EU deems adequate and others in countries with different protections, so prompt and image data reaches non-adequate destinations by design of the model picker; CLOUD Act exposure is recorded as Significative on that basis. The F Lite model is Apache 2.0–licensed open weights, enabling EU buyers to run self-hosted image generation on EU GPU infrastructure if they need full data sovereignty. Best fit: creative professionals and marketing teams wanting EU-incorporated AI image generation with a broad asset library; procurement-grade buyers requiring DPA should negotiate directly with Freepik Enterprise.

Carte des sous-traitants · non divulgué

L'éditeur ne publie pas de liste de sous-traitants. La conformité Schrems II et l'exposition au CLOUD Act ne peuvent pas être vérifiées indépendamment sans elle.

Référentiels & certifications · aucune répertoriée

Nous avons vérifié le site de l'éditeur et les registres des organismes de certification. Aucune certification active trouvée à la date du dernier audit (2026-08-26).

Matrice de fonctionnalités

Tableau 1Fonctionnalités de Freepik

Auto-hébergeable Non
Accès API Oui
Modèles open-weight Oui
Fine-tuning Oui
Multimodal Oui

Intégration & accès

REST API Oui
SSO (SAML / OIDC) Non

Conformité & gouvernance

Audit log Non
Self-host / on-prem option Non

Tarifs & paliers

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Documents publics

L'éditeur ne publie pas de DPA public. Sans contrat de sous-traitance accessible publiquement, les petits clients européens ne peuvent pas signer eux-mêmes l'accord : cela est consigné comme absence de DPA publique (voir Notre méthode).
L'éditeur ne publie pas de liste de sous-traitants. La conformité Schrems II et l'exposition au CLOUD Act ne peuvent pas être vérifiées indépendamment sans elle.
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