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Self-hosted / open sourceCloud PaaSHeadquarters: IL

Appwrite: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Appwrite is an open-source platform for building and running web and mobile applications. It provides authentication, databases, file storage, serverless functions, hosting for frontends, realtime events and a firewall. Organisations can use it as a managed cloud service or install it on their own infrastructure.

Appwrite Code Ltd is an Israeli company, and the terms of service are governed by Israeli law. The privacy policy names DigitalOcean among the providers for the cloud plan without stating hosting regions, and says that personal data transferred outside the EU and EEA relies on European Commission standard contractual clauses. The source code is published under the BSD 3-Clause licence, so a European organisation can run the platform on infrastructure within the EU and decide itself where its data is stored.

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Sovereignty score
77 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (IL)
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • 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
IL (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cloud PaaS
Type
Product
Website
appwrite.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Appwrite

The European alternatives to Appwrite 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 Appwrite

Appwrite is headquartered in IL, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

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

Appwrite 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 Appwrite 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 Appwrite?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Appwrite include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Appwrite?

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

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

Appwrite is headquartered in IL (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud PaaS

Cloud PaaS: Platform as a Service — managed runtimes, container orchestration, serverless. 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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