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Climatiq: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Climatiq is a carbon intelligence platform that provides emission factors and calculation tools for carbon footprints. Its offerings include PCF Studio for product carbon footprints, Data Studio for emission factors and an API Toolkit for building emissions calculations into other software. The company describes itself as a provider of carbon intelligence infrastructure and was founded in 2021. Its services are delivered online and through an API.

Climatiq Technologies GmbH is based in Berlin, Germany, and is therefore within the EU. The company's B Corp profile refers to this legal entity. The pages consulted do not state where customer data is hosted, whether a data processing agreement is offered or whether the platform can be self-hosted. The homepage links to a GDPR trust centre and a privacy policy, but the content of these was not reviewed. The sources do not state whether the emission-factor database is open source. A European organisation can therefore start from an EU-based provider, but should confirm hosting and processing terms before use.

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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 10, 2026

Headquarters	DE (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	ESG & Sustainability
Type	Product
Website	climatiq.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Climatiq

The European alternatives to Climatiq 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 Climatiq

Climatiq 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Climatiq scores best on data residency.

Climatiq 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 Climatiq 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 Climatiq?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Climatiq include bluesign, Carbmee and Carbonfact. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Climatiq?

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

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

Climatiq is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Climatiq 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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