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Dyad: sovereignty score and 7 European alternatives

Dyad is an open-source desktop application for building web applications with AI, an alternative to hosted AI app builders such as Lovable, v0 or Bolt.new. Project files stay on your own disk, and you can use an external provider's models with your own API key, or a local model that also works offline. Services such as Supabase or GitHub can be connected.

Dyad is a product of Dyad Tech, Inc., a US company. The code is mostly Apache 2.0; the src/pro folder is under the Functional Source License 1.1 (fair-source), so the paid Dyad Pro is not fully open source. According to the privacy policy, with your own API keys prompts go directly to the model provider, and with a local model nothing leaves your device; Dyad's servers are not involved in either case. With Dyad Pro, prompts and code are proxied through Dyad servers, located in the US; some processors may operate in the US or the EU. For a European organisation, the choice between own keys, a local model or Pro determines where data ends up.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (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-665
    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 12, 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
USVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
AI Coding
Type
Product
Website
dyad.sh ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Dyad

The European alternatives to Dyad come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Dyad

Dyad 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.

Dyad hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Dyad 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 Dyad 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 Dyad?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Dyad include Eclipse Theia, JetBrains AI Assistant and JetBrains Junie. On this page you can compare 7 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Dyad?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Dyad include Eclipse Theia, Mistral Code, Mistral Vibe CLI and SHAI (OVHcloud). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Dyad is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 12, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in AI Coding

AI Coding: AI-powered code assistants — code completion, terminal agents, AI-native IDEs. 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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