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admin.digital: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

admin.digital is a cloud platform for Swiss cantons, municipalities and organisations from Seantis AG of Lucerne. Its software base is OneGov Cloud, developed as open source within the OneGov.ch association. The platform bundles a municipal website with news and an events calendar, an online counter with forms and a service-ticket inbox, reservations with online payment, directories of authorities and people, publications for elections and votes, newsletters, search that includes PDFs, and an electronic seal for official documents. It is delivered as a managed cloud service.

Seantis AG is headquartered in Switzerland, which is not an EU member but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. The source code is published under the MIT licence on GitHub, which offers an exit from vendor dependence. According to the privacy page, databases sit with Swiss providers (Exoscale and cloudscale.ch); e-mail dispatch uses Postmark in the United States and payments go through Datatrans, Stripe or Worldline. No owner is named. Ask for a data processing agreement.

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Sovereignty score
92 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (CH, US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-690
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
CH, USVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
CMS
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to admin.digital

The European alternatives to admin.digital come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with admin.digital

admin.digital is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

admin.digital hosts data in CH, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

admin.digital is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs admin.digital together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to admin.digital?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to admin.digital include 7inOne, Ametys and anthrazit. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to admin.digital?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to admin.digital include Ametys, Bolt CMS and Cockpit CMS. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is admin.digital GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

admin.digital is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH, US. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes admin.digital an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 14, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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