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Countly: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Countly is a product analytics and customer engagement platform for mobile apps, web, desktop and connected devices. Data is collected through SDKs and an API, followed by reports, dashboards, cohort segmentation, A/B testing, surveys, push notifications and in-app journeys. Countly is delivered in three ways: Flex (a private cloud with a choice of hosting region), Enterprise (on-premise) and a free self-hosted Lite edition.

Countly Ltd is based in London, United Kingdom, and therefore outside the EU; no foreign parent company is known, and the company describes itself as independent. The source code is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0 with a modified Section 7, which among other things requires the Countly name and logo to be kept. Organisations that self-host decide where their data lives. With Flex you choose a hosting region; the website does not name the providers or data centres behind it.

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Sovereignty score
79 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
  • 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-675
    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
HeadquartersGB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionYes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
CategoryAnalytics
TypeProduct
Websitecountly.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 Countly

The European alternatives to Countly 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 Countly

Countly is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

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

Countly 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 Countly 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 Countly?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Countly include GoAccess (self-host), Offen and Plausible. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Countly?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Countly include GoAccess (self-host), Offen, Plausible, Counter and Friendly Analytics. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Countly is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in EU. 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

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

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Digital sovereignty in Analytics

Analytics: Business intelligence, data visualisation, web analytics. 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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