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Agno: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Agno is an open-source Python framework for building agents, teams and workflows with memory, knowledge and tools. It is distributed under the Apache-2.0 licence. Its runtime, AgentOS, serves agents over REST, MCP and chat channels and is managed through a control plane. The product was previously called Phidata and was renamed in January 2025. Developers install the framework and run it on their own infrastructure.

The company is based in New York, United States; the legal entity is not named on the website. The site states that data stays in the customer's own database and that agents run in the customer's own cloud, and it does not describe a hosted option. Because the code is open source and the runtime can run on infrastructure the organisation chooses, the main questions are the choice of cloud and model providers and the reliance on a US company's control plane. European organisations can keep data in the EU by choosing EU hosting and EU model endpoints.

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Sovereignty score

69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-3100
No hosting in Europe (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-665
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 11, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in US (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	AI Cowork
Type	Product
Website	agno.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Agno

The European alternatives to Agno come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Agno

Agno is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Agno hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Agno 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 Agno 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 Agno?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Agno include 2501.ai, Beam and Cognigy. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Agno?

Our list of EU alternatives to Agno is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Agno GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Agno is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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