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Self-hosted / open sourceCRMHeadquarters: FR

Dolibarr: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Dolibarr is an open-source ERP and CRM suite for small, medium and large companies, freelancers, foundations and associations. Its modules cover customers, prospects and suppliers, quotes and orders, invoicing, products and stock, purchasing, banking and accounting, projects, leave and expense reports, membership management and a point of sale. Users enable only the modules they need. It offers REST and SOAP APIs, an add-on marketplace and a module builder. Dolibarr can be installed on your own server, via packages or Docker, or used through commercial SaaS providers.

The project was started in France in 2002, and its foundation is French. The software is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or later and runs on a PHP web server with MariaDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL. Because the source code is open and can be self-hosted, an organisation can decide in which jurisdiction its data is stored and avoid dependence on a single vendor. Hosted offers come from separate providers, so the data location then depends on the provider chosen.

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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
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents
2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
CRM
Type
Product
Website
dolibarr.org ↗

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 Dolibarr

The European alternatives to Dolibarr 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 Dolibarr

Dolibarr 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 Dolibarr scores best on data residency.

Dolibarr 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 Dolibarr 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 Dolibarr?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Dolibarr include ADITO, Axelor CRM and Axonaut. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Dolibarr?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Dolibarr include Axelor CRM. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Dolibarr is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Dolibarr 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".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
dolibarr.org/legal-privacy-gdpr.php
Security page / trust center
wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php?title=Security_information

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in CRM

CRM: Customer relationship management — sales pipelines, contact management. 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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