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Bilendi: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Bilendi is a French company that runs online access panels and market research services. Its group gives research institutes and advertising agencies access to panels in several countries, together with services such as a research platform, niche sampling and media offerings. The core offer is respondent recruitment and data collection, not a self-service survey tool, and it is delivered through the group's own platforms and panel infrastructure.

Bilendi S.A., formerly Maximiles S.A., has its registered seat in Paris, France, as stated in its legal notice. The pages reviewed name no majority shareholder, so the ownership structure is not established here. Hosting locations for panel and customer data are not stated on the pages reviewed. For a European organisation, the company operates under French and EU law, and a data processing agreement should set out where respondent data is stored and which processors are involved.

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 11, 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
NoVendor-stated
Category
Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Bilendi

The European alternatives to Bilendi 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 Bilendi

Bilendi 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 Bilendi scores best on data residency.

Bilendi 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 Bilendi 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 Bilendi?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Bilendi include 123FormBuilder, AidaForm and Askia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Bilendi?

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

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

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

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Compliance evidence

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