Non-EU vendorSupply Chain & Asset ManagementHeadquarters: US

Cleo Integration Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cleo Integration Cloud is a cloud-based platform for B2B integration and supply chain orchestration. It covers EDI, API and application integration, data movement and transformation, and secure file transfer protocols such as AS2 and SFTP. Companies use it to exchange orders, invoices and shipping data with trading partners without building each connection themselves. It is delivered as a vendor-operated cloud service.

Cleo is headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, and is privately held; its owner, the US investment firm H.I.G. Capital, is also American, so the company falls under US jurisdiction including the CLOUD Act. Its trust centre lists GDPR, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and DORA among its compliance items and names Amazon Web Services as infrastructure, but does not state which regions host customer data or whether EU-only hosting is available. European organisations that process regulated trading data through the platform should clarify hosting region, subprocessors and key management in the data processing agreement.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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 13, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Supply Chain & Asset Management
Type	Product
Website	cleo.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cleo Integration Cloud

The European alternatives to Cleo Integration Cloud 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 Cleo Integration Cloud

Cleo Integration Cloud is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Cleo Integration Cloud hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Cleo Integration Cloud 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 Cleo Integration Cloud 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 Cleo Integration Cloud?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cleo Integration Cloud include AEB SE, AIMMS and Alpega Group. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Cleo Integration Cloud?

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

Is Cleo Integration Cloud GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Cleo Integration Cloud is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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