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Digital Samba: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Digital Samba is a browser-based video conferencing service that requires no software installation. The company also sells Digital Samba Embedded, an API and SDK for adding video calls to other applications and websites. The service is hosted, and the product line is aimed at teams that meet in the browser and at developers who want to include video in their own products.

Digital Samba, S.L. is based in Barcelona, Spain. The company describes itself as independent, without outside investors and under European ownership; it names no foreign parent company. The company states that the service runs entirely in Europe, on European infrastructure, with European sub-processors only. A GDPR statement and a data processing agreement are published, covering both the standard service and Embedded. The privacy page does not name specific data centres or list sub-processors, so these details should be requested under the agreement. The SDK's source code is on GitHub, but the product licence is not stated, so the service is not classed as open source.

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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 11, 2026
Headquarters
ES (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Collaboration
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Digital Samba

The European alternatives to Digital Samba 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 Digital Samba

Digital Samba is headquartered in ES 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 Digital Samba scores best on data residency.

Digital Samba 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 Digital Samba 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 Digital Samba?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Digital Samba include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad and Nextcloud Deck. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Digital Samba?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Digital Samba include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad, Nextcloud Deck, FluffyChat, HedgeDoc and Huly. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Digital Samba GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Digital Samba is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Digital Samba 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 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Collaboration

Collaboration: Team communication, file sharing, video conferencing, document editing. 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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