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Beekast: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Beekast is a web platform for interactive meetings, workshops and training. Participants join from their own devices and take part in polls, word clouds, quizzes and whiteboards, and an AI assistant helps set up sessions. Beekast is delivered as SaaS, which makes it a European alternative to presentation and workshop tools such as Mentimeter or Mural where interactive sessions are the main use.

Beekast is a French SAS with its registered office in Paris. In May 2023 the company was acquired by saas.group; according to that announcement it remains an independent French company and customer and user data stay in the same European data centres. The privacy policy names Amazon Web Services servers in Ireland, so data sits in the EU, with a US infrastructure provider. Beekast states that it is GDPR-compliant, has a data protection officer and reports ISO 27001 certification. According to the site, session content is not used to train AI models.

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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 12, 2026

Headquarters	FR (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
Category	Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration
Type	Product
Website	beekast.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Beekast

The European alternatives to Beekast come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Beekast

Beekast 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 Beekast scores best on data residency.

Beekast 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Beekast?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Beekast include Classroomscreen, Collaboard and Conceptboard. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Beekast?

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

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

Beekast is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Beekast 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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