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Brainlab: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Brainlab develops hardware and software for surgery and radiation therapy. Its portfolio includes image-guided surgery and navigation systems, robotic platforms, a mixed reality viewer, and radiosurgery and radiotherapy products such as Novalis, ExacTrac Dynamic and the Elements software suite. It serves hospitals, surgeons and radiation oncology departments. Brainlab Cloud Services, built on Quentry, adds a hosted clinical network in which medical professionals and supporting staff share images.

Brainlab is a privately held company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It converted from an Aktiengesellschaft to a European Stock Corporation (SE) in 2025, and its founder, Stefan Vilsmeier, chairs the administrative board. For Brainlab Cloud Services, the company states that patient data of registered users in Europe is stored on servers in the EU, while data of registered users in the US is stored on servers in the US. File data is stored with Amazon Web Services (S3), so the infrastructure provider is a US company. The products are proprietary and not open source.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • 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-645
    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
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, USVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalHETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryHealthcare
TypeProduct
Websitebrainlab.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 Brainlab

The European alternatives to Brainlab 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 Brainlab

Brainlab 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.

Brainlab hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Brainlab 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 Brainlab 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 Brainlab?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Brainlab include Ada Health, Agfa HealthCare and Aiforia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Brainlab?

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

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

Brainlab is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Brainlab 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.

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Healthcare

Healthcare: Healthcare — medical imaging, PACS, clinical systems. 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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