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Apideck: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Apideck is a unified API platform for SaaS companies that need to integrate with the applications their customers use. Instead of maintaining a separate integration for every third-party app, you build against one API. Unify provides standardised APIs for accounting, CRM, HRIS, ATS, file storage, e-commerce and issue tracking, among others. Vault is a ready-made interface for managing OAuth connections and integration settings, Ecosystem is a white-label integration marketplace, and Proxy offers an API proxy with monitoring. Developers work with API references, SDKs and guides. Apideck is delivered as a cloud service.

Apideck was founded in 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium, and has offices in Antwerp and San Francisco. The company states that the service is hosted in the EU by default. Apideck lists SOC 2 Type II certification and a Zero Data Retention option, in which payloads are processed in memory by default rather than stored. No open-source edition is mentioned.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-645
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 1, 2026

Headquarters	BE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	API Management
Type	Product
Website	apideck.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Apideck

The European alternatives to Apideck 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 Apideck

Apideck is headquartered in BE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Apideck hosts data in EU, 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.

Apideck is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Apideck 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 Apideck?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Apideck include Alumio, Axway and Bump.sh. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Apideck?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Apideck include Fusio. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Apideck is headquartered in BE (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Apideck 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 1, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in API Management

API Management: API gateways, API management, developer portals and API security. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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