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bexio: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

bexio is cloud-based business software for Swiss small and medium-sized enterprises, aimed at small businesses, start-ups and the self-employed; the vendor positions it for companies with 1 to 25 employees. It combines digital bookkeeping with receipt processing and an interface for fiduciaries, quotes and invoices including QR invoices, automatic matching of bank transactions, Swissdec-certified payroll, customer management, and product, inventory and project management. It is a subscription service used online.

bexio AG began as easySYS in 2013, was renamed bexio in 2015 and has been a subsidiary of Mobiliar, a Swiss insurer, since 2018, remaining a separate company. According to the vendor, client data is stored in certified data centres in Switzerland, and the company states ISO 27001 certification. The software is proprietary, not open source. Switzerland is outside the EU but a member of EFTA; for a European organisation this means a Swiss vendor with a Swiss owner and data stored in Switzerland rather than within the EU.

Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • 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 9, 2026
HeadquartersCH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingCHVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryERP & Finance
TypeProduct
Websitebexio.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 bexio

The European alternatives to bexio come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 bexio

bexio is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

bexio hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

bexio 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 bexio 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 bexio?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to bexio include 24SevenOffice, A3ERP and Abacus. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to bexio?

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

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

bexio is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes bexio 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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