European Software Alternatives

Frontier open-weight LLMs and the Le Chat assistant, with private and on-premise deployment.

FranceEU / on-prem

🇩🇪Aleph Alpha

Sovereign LLMs (PhariaAI) with the deepest track record in EU public sector and defence.

GermanyEU / on-prem

🇩🇪Black Forest Labs

FLUX image-generation models from Freiburg — open weights you can run yourself.

GermanyEU / self-host

🇫🇷LightOn

GDPR-compliant enterprise GenAI platform (Paradigm) built for private, on-prem deployment.

FranceEU / on-prem

🇩🇪Jina AI

Open embedding, reranker and search models from Berlin, usable via API or self-hosted.

GermanyEU / self-host

🇫🇷Pleias

European · self-hostedSelf-hosted

EU AI Act-compliant open models trained only on open and licensed data — a clean compliance story.

FranceEU / self-host

CRM & Sales

7 options

Where customer data lives is the highest-stakes sovereignty decision most teams make. These keep it in Europe — or on your own servers.

★ Our Choice↗

🇪🇺TAKO

An AI-powered CRM, projects, booking and agents suite that runs on your own servers — full source code included. Your pipeline, your data, your rules.

🇳🇴SuperOffice

Long-established European CRM for sales, marketing and service, with EU data centres.

NorwayEU-hosted

🇧🇪Efficy

Pan-European CRM group focused on the EU mid-market.

BelgiumEU-hosted

🇩🇪weclapp

Cloud ERP + CRM for SMEs, hosted in Germany under German data-protection law.

🇧🇪Teamleader

CRM, quotation and work-management tool aimed at European small businesses.

BelgiumEU-hosted

🇩🇪CentralStationCRM

Lightweight, privacy-first SME CRM from Cologne — simple contact and deal tracking.

🇪🇪Pipedrive

Popular sales pipeline CRM built in Tallinn — now owned by US fund Vista Equity.

Estonia (built)US-owned

Cloud & Hosting

7 options

IaaS and VPS that aren't subject to the US CLOUD Act — the foundation layer of digital sovereignty.

🇩🇪Hetzner

High-value cloud servers and dedicated hardware from Germany and Finland.

🇫🇷OVHcloud

Europe's largest cloud provider — IaaS, bare metal and managed services.

🇫🇷Scaleway

Developer-friendly French cloud with GPU, serverless and object storage.

🇩🇪IONOS

German cloud and hosting at scale, part of the sovereign-cloud initiative.

🇨🇭Infomaniak

Independent Swiss provider running its own ecologically-powered data centres.

🇫🇮UpCloud

Finnish high-performance cloud servers with EU and UK regions.

FinlandEU-hosted

🇨🇭Exoscale

SwitzerlandSwiss/EU-hosted

Swiss-run cloud with data centres across Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Email Providers

5 options

Encrypted, ad-free mailboxes under EU or Swiss privacy law — not scanned to sell you ads.

🇨🇭Proton Mail

End-to-end encrypted email under Swiss privacy law, with calendar and drive.

🇩🇪Tuta (Tutanota)

Fully encrypted German mail and calendar, including subject-line encryption.

🇩🇪mailbox.org

Privacy-first Berlin provider with full office suite and PGP support.

🇩🇪Posteo

Sustainable, anonymous German email — no personal data required to sign up.

🇳🇱StartMail

Dutch private email from the Startpage team, with disposable aliases.

NetherlandsEU-hosted

Web Analytics

5 options

Cookieless, GDPR-friendly analytics that keep visitor data in Europe — or on your own server.

🇪🇺Matomo

Open sourceSelf-host / EU cloud

The leading open-source analytics platform — self-host it or use the EU cloud.

🇪🇪Plausible

Lightweight, privacy-friendly analytics with no cookies, hosted in the EU.

EstoniaEU-hosted

🇩🇪Pirsch

Cookie-free, GDPR-compliant analytics built and hosted in Germany.

🇵🇱Wide Angle Analytics

Consent-light, EU-hosted analytics with a strong compliance focus.

PolandEU-hosted

🇩🇪etracker

Hamburg-based analytics and optimisation, certified for cookieless tracking.

Office & Documents

5 options

Document, spreadsheet and presentation suites you can run yourself — no US cloud required.

🇩🇪Nextcloud

Self-hosted collaboration platform: files, docs, calendar, talk and more.

🇱🇻ONLYOFFICE

MS-compatible online office suite, self-hostable or on EU-based cloud.

LatviaSelf-host / EU

🇬🇧Collabora Online

United KingdomSelf-host / EU

Enterprise LibreOffice in the browser — fully self-hosted document editing.

🇫🇷CryptPad

End-to-end encrypted collaborative docs and sheets from XWiki (France).

FranceSelf-host / EU

🇩🇪LibreOffice

The free desktop office suite from The Document Foundation — runs locally.

Germany (TDF)On-device

File Storage & Sync

6 options

Cloud drives under European or Swiss law — encrypted, and in several cases self-hostable.

🇩🇪Nextcloud

Run your own Dropbox-style drive on infrastructure you control.

🇨🇭pCloud

SwitzerlandSwiss/EU-hosted

Swiss-governed cloud storage with optional client-side encryption.

🇨🇭Infomaniak kDrive

Swiss-hosted drive and collaboration suite, a direct Google Drive alternative.

🇨🇭Tresorit

SwitzerlandEU/Swiss-hosted

End-to-end encrypted storage, owned by Swiss Post — strong sovereignty story.

🇪🇸Internxt

Open-source, zero-knowledge encrypted storage from Valencia.

SpainEU-hosted

🇨🇭Proton Drive

Encrypted file storage under Swiss law, part of the Proton suite.

Password Managers

4 options

Credential vaults under EU or Swiss jurisdiction — several open-source and self-hostable.

🇨🇭Proton Pass

Open-source, end-to-end encrypted password manager under Swiss law.

🇩🇪Psono

Open-source, self-hostable password manager built for teams.

🇱🇺Passbolt

Open-source team password manager you host yourself, GDPR by design.

LuxembourgSelf-host / EU

🇱🇹NordPass

Zero-knowledge password manager from Lithuania's Nord Security.

LithuaniaEU-owned

Video & Secure Messaging

5 options

Calls and chat that aren't routed through US Big Tech — encrypted and EU-governed.

🇳🇴Whereby

Browser-based video meetings from Norway — no installs, embeddable API.

NorwayEU-hosted

🇫🇷Tixeo

End-to-end encrypted video conferencing, certified by France's ANSSI.

🇩🇪Wire

Open-source, end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls for organisations.

🇬🇧Element (Matrix)

United KingdomSelf-host / EU

Decentralised, self-hostable secure chat on the open Matrix protocol.

🇨🇭Infomaniak kMeet

Free, no-account Swiss video meetings hosted in Infomaniak's data centres.

Project & Team Management

5 options

Task boards, work management and helpdesks built and hosted in Europe.

🇩🇪Stackfield

End-to-end encrypted team collaboration and project management from Munich.

🇩🇪awork

Friendly work-management and time-tracking tool, hosted in Germany.

🇩🇪factro

German project-management software with Gantt and Kanban, hosted in Germany.

🇩🇪Zammad

Open-source helpdesk and ticketing you can run on your own servers.

🇩🇪OpenProject

Open-source project management — self-hosted or on EU-based cloud.

Email Marketing & Newsletters

5 options

Send campaigns from EU infrastructure — subscriber data stays under GDPR.

🇫🇷Brevo

Email, SMS and marketing automation from Paris (formerly Sendinblue).

🇵🇱GetResponse

Polish email marketing and automation platform with EU data handling.

PolandEU-hosted

🇩🇪CleverReach

German newsletter tool, GDPR-compliant with EU-only data storage.

🇩🇪rapidmail

Freiburg-based newsletter software with German servers and support.

🇫🇷Mailjet

Transactional and marketing email with an EU data-residency option.

Machine Translation

3 options

Translate documents and text without shipping them to a US cloud.

🇩🇪DeepL

Best-in-class neural machine translation, processed on EU servers.

🇨🇭TextShuttle

SwitzerlandSwiss/EU-hosted

Swiss enterprise translation AI with on-prem and private-cloud options.

🇩🇪Lengoo

AI-assisted translation for enterprises, built in Berlin.