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Cycloid: sovereignty score and 5 European alternatives

Cycloid is an internal developer platform and portal. It offers self-service blueprints and golden paths, forms built from Terraform or OpenTofu modules, promotion paths, approval workflows and an MCP server for AI assistants. A software catalogue with ownership, asset inventory, dependency graph, scorecards and DORA metrics gives platform teams visibility. It integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Helm, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, and supports SSO through Entra ID, Okta, Keycloak, OIDC and SAML. Deployment options are self-hosted (including air-gapped), dedicated SaaS, hybrid, or fully managed SaaS.

Cycloid SAS is a French company with its head office in Paris. Its legal notice names Scaleway, a French provider, as hosting provider, and the vendor states that EU hosting is available for SaaS, while dedicated deployments can run in isolated accounts at AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway, OVH or Outscale. The platform is not open source, although Cycloid publishes open-source projects such as InfraMap and TerraCognita. It reports ISO 27001 certification. For a European organisation, self-hosting or EU-hosted SaaS can keep the platform under EU jurisdiction.

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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 September 27, 2026
Headquarters
FR (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
Hosting signal
AS12876 - Scaleway SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
Category
FinOps & Cloud Cost Management
Type
Product
Website
cycloid.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 Cycloid

The European alternatives to Cycloid 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 Cycloid

Cycloid is headquartered in FR 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 Cycloid scores best on data residency.

Cycloid 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 Cycloid 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 Cycloid?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cycloid include Cloudchipr, CloudCockpit and Costory. On this page you can compare 5 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Cycloid?

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

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

Cycloid is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Cycloid 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 September 27, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in FinOps & Cloud Cost Management

FinOps & Cloud Cost Management: Cloud cost visibility, optimisation and chargeback across multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments. 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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