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Deepgram: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Deepgram provides application programming interfaces for speech recognition and voice AI. Its products include speech-to-text, text-to-speech, a voice agent API that combines recognition, language models and speech output, and an audio intelligence API for analysing recorded conversations. Developers and businesses use them in contact centres and voice applications. The service is available as a cloud API and, according to the company, can also be self-hosted.

Deepgram, Inc. is a US company with a contact address in San Francisco. Its privacy policy states that customer data is stored on servers in the United States and that data processing agreements with customers set out GDPR obligations. For European customers, the developer documentation describes an EU endpoint (api.eu.deepgram.com) for processing within the EU. Some models, such as Whisper, are not available there, and the documentation notes that the exact country may change. A European organisation should record the endpoint in its contract and weigh the reach of US law over the company.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
  • 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 11, 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
US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
AI
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Deepgram

The European alternatives to Deepgram 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 Deepgram

Deepgram 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.

Deepgram hosts data in US, EU. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Deepgram 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 Deepgram 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 Deepgram?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Deepgram include Aleph Alpha, Almato and Almawave. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Deepgram?

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

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

Deepgram is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, 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

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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