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Catawiki: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Catawiki is an online auction platform for special objects and collectibles. Sellers offer their items in online auctions, and a network of experts values, authenticates and curates each object before it is offered. Buyers bid publicly, and the service runs as a web platform that requires no installation. For sellers, the platform is mainly a way to reach collectors and dealers across borders.

Catawiki is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The company started in Assen as a wiki-based compendium of collectors' catalogues and went online in 2008. Its investors include the Growth Opportunities Fund of Permira and Accel. As a company seated in the European Union, Catawiki is a Dutch-headquartered option for European organisations. Organisations that use the platform for business should request the processing terms and hosting locations from the 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 12, 2026

Headquarters	NL (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	E-commerce
Type	Product
Website	catawiki.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Catawiki

The European alternatives to Catawiki 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 Catawiki

Catawiki is headquartered in NL 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 Catawiki scores best on data residency.

Catawiki 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 Catawiki 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 Catawiki?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Catawiki include ablefy, SCAYLE and Actindo. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Catawiki?

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

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

Catawiki is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Catawiki 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 12, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in E-commerce

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