Comparison
Gemini is deeply integrated into Google Workspace, that is its strength, and that is the problem: your company data feeds the AI of an American company subject to the Cloud Act. Helix takes the opposite approach: the best open-weight models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek…) deployed on your infrastructure, connected to your tools, Google included.
Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet: Gemini relies on your entire Google workspace. Convenient, but every document, email and meeting analyzed passes through the servers of an American company subject to the Cloud Act.
Gemini is at its best inside Workspace. Your non-Google tools, Notion, Slack, SharePoint, your business applications, remain poorly covered, and leaving Google gets more costly every day.
With Gemini, you inherit Google's choice. You cannot use Claude to analyze a contract, GPT for writing, or a local open-source model for the most sensitive data.
The criteria that matter for a European company.
| Helix | Gemini (Workspace) | Microsoft Copilot | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location of your data | Your servers or EU private cloud | Google cloud (US company) | Microsoft cloud (US company) |
| Exposure to the Cloud Act | None on-premise | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosting / air-gapped | Turnkey, in 1 day | Impossible | Impossible |
| Available AI models | The best open-weight models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek…) | Google only | OpenAI via Microsoft |
| Works outside its ecosystem | Yes: Google, Microsoft, Notion, Slack, business tools… | Built for Google Workspace | Built for Microsoft 365 |
| Desktop app (Cowork and Code modes) | Yes, data processed within your perimeter | Web and mobile (US cloud) | Integrated with Office (US cloud) |
| Secure agents and automations | Yes, with human validation on outgoing actions | Gems / Google cloud agents | Copilot Studio (Microsoft cloud) |
| Meeting transcription | Included, Meet, Teams, Zoom or in person | Via Meet only | Via Teams only |
Comparison made in good faith as of the publication date; vendor offerings evolve. The structural point does not change: an American company remains subject to the Cloud Act, regardless of the hosting location.
Far more than a chat: a complete work platform, with every AI model on the market.
The AI works alongside you directly on your machine: writing, document analysis, spreadsheets, presentations, on your real files, not in an isolated tab.
Code generation and execution in a secure sandbox: scripts, data analysis, prototypes, with nothing more to install.
Build agents that run your recurring processes autonomously and securely, with human validation at critical steps.
Your meetings transcribed, summarized and usable by the AI. On-premise, the audio never leaves your infrastructure.
Drive, Notion, Slack, SharePoint... your data is indexed and searchable by every model, with role-based access control.
The same platform, deployed on your servers or our sovereign cloud in France. Your data never leaves your walls.
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No DevOps team or pre-existing AI plan required: we guide you from diagnosis to deployment.
We analyze your current usage, your tools, your regulatory constraints and your priority use cases. You leave with a clear action plan, no commitment.
We install the platform on your infrastructure or our sovereign cloud in France, connect your data and set up your teams. Installed in 1 day.
Training for your teams, technical support with a response within 24 business hours, ongoing maintenance and updates. You are never left alone with the tool.
Yes. Helix connects to Drive, Gmail, Calendar and your other tools (Notion, Slack, SharePoint…). The difference from Gemini: your documents are indexed within your perimeter, not in Google's cloud. You keep the convenience of Workspace, without your data feeding the AI of an American company.
Because “included” also means “locked in”: Gemini only works well inside Google, does not let you choose the model, and routes your data through Google's cloud, subject to the Cloud Act. Helix makes you independent: the best open-weight models, deployed on your side, connected to all your tools, Google included.
No. Gemini is a proprietary AI from Google that only runs in Google's cloud. Helix deploys only open-weight models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek…) on your infrastructure. These open models rival Gemini on most tasks, while keeping your data on your side.
No. Google remains an American company subject to the Cloud Act: the hosting region does not legally protect your data. Only a deployment on your own infrastructure, with open-weight models, eliminates this exposure.
That is exactly where Helix makes sense: instead of choosing between the Google and Microsoft ecosystems, Helix connects to both and to your business tools, with a sovereign AI at the center. You are no longer locked into one vendor.
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