Most "EU alternatives" lists stop at the name. I built one that doesn't.
I know there are a dozen of different "EU Alternatives" websites/catalogs already and some of them are actually great for discovering European brands and software. But they never show you what's inside: you only get a name, a logo, a few lines long pitch and then you're on your own.
So after doing some due diligence I've built a more detailed one. Whether you just want a European Dropbox/Google Analytics/1Password etc or you need to know your customers' data won't leave the EU, the idea is the same: give you what you need after the name, not just the name.
Two features I have that surface-level lists do not:
- **I show the exposure, not just the "European" label. **That word hides the part that matters. A company can have a Berlin office, a "hosted in the EU" banner, and still route your data through a US analytics provider or sit on US-owned cloud — at which point US law reaches it regardless of where the rack is. So for every listing I check, and link the source for:
- Where the data is actually hosted — the data-centre region, not the HQ on the about page.
- The sub-processor list — the one nobody reads. Pretty EU hosting page up front, US tooling quietly in the DPA annex.
- **CLOUD Act exposure **— US parent or US hyperscaler storage means US jurisdiction, full stop.
- Who owns the company — "EU-founded, US-funded" is a different animal from "EU-owned". Ownership and hosting are shown as separate signals so you decide which one you care about.
2 . A proper feature matrix. Not "here are five alternatives, good luck" - an actual side-by-side, so you can see which tool genuinely replaces the US one feature-for-feature and which is wishful thinking.
Everything is from public sources only - the vendor's own DPA, sub-processors page, the company registry, legal notice etc. Each point has a link to original page and last verification date. Vendor's self-attestation is not taken on faith.
One number that fell out of doing this for more than 200 tools: a little more than 30% are completely clear of US Cloud Act exposure - no US parent and no significat sub-processors.
On money: the site earns nothing right now. There are a couple of affiliate links added already and it's disclosed everywhere they appear plus listed in full on the transparency page. That's the whole monetisation plan: affiliate links, nothing hidden. Listing order is editorial - no commission logic anywhere in how stuff is sorted.
What I would be happy to hear from you: what's missing? Did I get any assessments wrong? If you see something - let me know and I will fix it right away.
Disclaimer: I'm affiliated — I built and run this site. It currently has a couple of affiliate links live; how it's funded is documented in full at https://euvetted.com/transparency
Looks nice, good job. I was planning to look at VPNs soon and will refer back to this.
In case you ever want to include gaming as a category, make sure to list lichess.org as an alternative to chess.com. It is precisely what people using a site like this are looking for: Fully EU-owned and EU-hosted, open source, free of ads and trackers etc.
Thank you! Yes, I am currently working on expanding categories. Currently it has more business related stuff but that's not the only direction I am planing.
Thanks for the work you've put into this. It does look nice and provides lots of information one might want to have before deciding on a product.
That said, I've found an inaccuracy with KeePass. The comparison claims that, unlike the other password managers, Keepass is unavailable for mobile. Technically, that's true for KeepassXC (the most polished Keepass fork). However, with KeepassDX, there's definitely a very polished Android app (though under a different name), and apparently, iOS apps exist too.
A few things that didn't fit in the post: The hardest part wasn't finding EU tools. It was going through the sub-processor lists. Plenty of vendors publish a nice "hosted in the EU" page, then quietly list a US analytics, support, or infrastructure provider in the DPA annex. That's why I treat the sub-processor list as more telling than the hosting claim itself.
So a question for you: which category do you most wish had a genuinely clean option? And which tool are you still stuck using? That's exactly the gap I want to fill next.
Nice work! A question and a request:
ref: https://euvetted.com/compare?p=hetzner%2Covhcloud
(q) Looking at the Cloud & Hosting category, I don't see a distinction for regional datacenters; for instance OVHcloud has a US counterpart and US datacenters (and Canada) along with all their EU stuff. Just sort of asking how that worked out in your investigations... even if it's just Canada, it's not in the EU yet. :) But more realistically say... Helsinki vs. UK or something.
(r) One of the things I spent time on but I don't see reflected - Domain Registrars and DNS Hosting. I used the ICANN official list myself and just clicked a lot, and for DNS I found basically CouldNS, Bunny.net and Gcore.com as the "EU" (not sure if EU or general Europe). [1]
Bunny and Gcore are Cloudflare competitors so it's no small work to build a full set of data like you have done for others, they all offer a lot of products under one umbrella. But CloudNS isn't so it's a crossover area between different types of companies based on singular.. features offered?
[1] side comment, it might be interesting to see a mapping of domain TLDs - it's well known about who owns/controls net. com, org but I think few realize that a lot of these new TLDs are all owned by single megacorps when you dig into Wikipedia etc. Your precious
.devis owned by Google.Good job.
Thank you!
Praise be for the transparency!
Really nice work! Good job.
One thing I miss, is which payment options they support. You are mostly forced to use VISA or Mastercard.