11 open-source Document Management (DMS) vendors
Open-source software for Document Management (DMS) that you can self-host, with auditable source code — regardless of the developer's headquarters.
- vendors scored
- 11
- European
- 8
- foreign-owned
- 3
- last checked
- 11 October 2026
Vendors, scored
Score per vendor: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign
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- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100agorumGermany · EU sovereignopen-source DMS and ECM platform from Germany with modular architecture
- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100BlueSpiceGermany · Self-hosted / open sourceGerman enterprise wiki and knowledge base built on MediaWiki, open source.
- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100LogicalDOCItaly · EU sovereignItalian open-source DMS with full-text search and document version management
- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100Paperless-ngxGermany · Self-hosted / open sourceOpen-source document management system for digitising physical documents
- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100Pydio CellsFrance · Self-hosted / open source · owner in GermanyFrench open-core (AGPL v3) self-hosted ECM platform, owned by Wire (Berlin).
- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100SeedDMSGermany · Self-hosted / open sourceOpen-source document management system with version control and workflows
- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100TeedyFrance · Self-hosted / open sourceOpen-source document management system (GPL-2.0, formerly Sismics Docs) by Sismics SAS in Lyon; self-hosted via Docker, with OCR and tags.
- Sovereignty score 82 out of 100NuxeoFrance · EU-hosted, non-EU parent · owner in United StatesNuxeo is a French open-source content management platform acquired by Hyland Software (Westlake, Ohio, USA) in April 2021. The product continues to operate under its own brand but is fully owned by a US parent company, removing the eu-strict sovereignty classification.
- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100ConstellioCanada · Self-hosted / open sourceCanadian open-source EIM platform with document management, records management and enterprise search.
- Sovereignty score 69 out of 100AlfrescoUnited Kingdom · Non-EU vendor · owner in United Statesopen-source content services platform for enterprise content management and workflow
- Sovereignty score 69 out of 100Mayan EDMSUnited States · Self-hosted / open sourceOpen-source document management system (GPL-2.0) written in Python, self-installed, from Mayan EDMS LLC in the US.
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