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asalae: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

asalae is an electronic archiving system (SAE, Système d'Archivage Électronique) for public archive services, based on the OAIS model. It covers intake, storage with integrity checks, consultation, disposal or return of archives, and administration and interoperability. It is multi-tenant, can write to several storage systems and supports several versions of the SEDA exchange standard. You install it as server software on your own infrastructure.

asalae is published by Libriciel SCOP, a French cooperative based in Castelnau-le-Lez that makes free business software for the public sector. Its employees hold more than 98% of the share capital, so there is no foreign parent company. According to the Comptoir du Libre catalogue, asalae is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3. Libriciel also offers hosting and management of business applications; its website does not state where the servers are located. If you run asalae yourself, your archives and metadata stay on your own systems and under your own control.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • 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-6100
    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
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Document Management (DMS)
Type
Product
Website
libriciel.fr ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to asalae

The European alternatives to asalae come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 asalae

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

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so asalae scores best on data residency.

asalae 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 asalae 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 asalae?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to asalae include agorum, AMAGNO and Archifiltre. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to asalae?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to asalae include agorum, Archifiltre and BlueSpice. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

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

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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