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Dust: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Dust is a platform on which teams create, share and run AI agents for their daily work. The agents draw on company knowledge through connectors, such as Slack, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce and Zendesk, and can also take actions. Users choose a model per agent from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral. Administrators set permissions per team, use single sign-on and SCIM synchronisation, and track usage through audit logs. Dust is delivered as a cloud service; a dedicated single-tenant deployment is available.

Dust is headquartered in Paris. Customers can choose data residency in the EU or in the US. The source code is on GitHub under the MIT licence. According to Dust, the service is SOC 2 Type II certified and model providers retain no data. Because agents send data to the chosen model providers, many of which are US companies, the choice of model also determines the jurisdiction under which your data is processed.

Sovereignty score
82 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • 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-690
    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 9, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Type
Product
Website

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 Dust

The European alternatives to Dust 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 Dust

Dust 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.

Dust hosts data in EU, US. 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.

Dust 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 Dust 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 Dust?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Dust 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 Dust?

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

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

Dust is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Dust 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 9, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in AI

AI: Artificial intelligence — large language models, translation, generative AI. 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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