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Self-hosted / open sourceCloud PaaSHeadquarters: HU

Coolify: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Coolify is an open source platform for deploying applications, databases and services on your own servers, presented as a self-hostable alternative to Heroku, Netlify and Vercel. All you need is a server reachable over SSH, such as a VPS, a bare-metal machine or a Raspberry Pi. Coolify builds from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Gitea using Nixpacks, Dockerfiles or Docker Compose, and offers pull request previews, automatic HTTPS, managed databases, backups, monitoring, an API and team permissions. Alongside self-hosting there is Coolify Cloud, a version operated by the company.

Coolify is released under the Apache 2.0 licence. The website is operated by coolLabs Solutions Kft., a Hungarian entity. Those who self-host decide where servers and data reside and stay independent of any external jurisdiction. For Coolify Cloud the hosting location is not specified, so a European organisation should check this before using it.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 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-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 2, 2026
HeadquartersHU (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryCloud PaaS
TypeProduct
Websitecoolify.io ↗

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 Coolify

The European alternatives to Coolify 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 Coolify

Coolify is headquartered in HU 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 Coolify scores best on data residency.

Coolify is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Coolify 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 Coolify?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Coolify include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Coolify?

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

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

Coolify is headquartered in HU (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Coolify 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 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
coollabs.io/privacy-policy/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

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Cloud PaaS: Platform as a Service — managed runtimes, container orchestration, serverless. 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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