Self-hosted / open sourceStorage & BackupHeadquarters: US

Duplicati: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Duplicati is an open-source backup client that creates encrypted, incremental backups and stores them with the storage service of your choice. Destinations include Amazon S3, Azure, Backblaze B2, Google Cloud, SFTP, WebDAV and NAS. Data is encrypted on the client with AES-256 or GPG before upload. The client runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. For organisations the company offers paid features such as a web console for central management, backup policies for multiple machines, alerts and SSO, plus backups of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. The client is free and licensed under the MIT licence.

Duplicati Inc. is a US company, incorporated in Delaware in March 2024, that follows an open-core model: the client stays open source and enterprise features are paid. You decide where your backups are stored by choosing the storage destination. Choosing an EU provider or your own storage keeps backup data in Europe, and because data is encrypted before it is sent, the storage provider holds no readable content. The management console of the paid services is operated by a US company.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
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

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	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (NL)Technically measured
Category	Storage & Backup
Type	Product
Website	duplicati.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 Duplicati

The European alternatives to Duplicati 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 Duplicati

Duplicati 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.

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

Duplicati 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 Duplicati 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 Duplicati?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Duplicati include Bacula Systems, LINBIT and Cubbit. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Duplicati?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Duplicati include Bacula Systems and LINBIT. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Duplicati is headquartered in US 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

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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