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awork: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

awork is a project management platform aimed at agencies. It combines project and task management, capacity planning based on team availability, time tracking with budget and billability reports, documentation and AI features. With awork Connect, agencies collaborate with clients and freelancers without exposing internal information. The service is cloud-based, with desktop and mobile apps, and connects to tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Xero and Salesforce.

awork is provided by awork GmbH, a SaaS company based in Hamburg, Germany, founded in 2019. According to the vendor, data is hosted on ISO 27001-certified servers in Europe, and its website states that these are Microsoft servers in Germany. The software is not open source and no self-hosted version is offered. Because the infrastructure comes from Microsoft, a US company, it can be worth asking the vendor which contractual and technical safeguards apply. The company itself is based in Europe, and the sources consulted name no non-European parent company.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 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-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-655
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	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	awork.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 awork

The European alternatives to awork 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 awork

awork is headquartered in DE 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 awork scores best on data residency.

awork 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 awork 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 awork?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to awork include Arinto, Bitrix24 and Easy8. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to awork?

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

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

awork is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes awork 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

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): awork.com/legal-and-privacy
Security page / trust center: support.awork.com/en/articles/12802073-data-protection-and-gdpr-at-awork

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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