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Self-hosted / open sourceVPNHeadquarters: NL

eduVPN: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

eduVPN, also known as Let's Connect!, is VPN server software with a user portal, an admin portal and an OAuth 2.0 API for the eduVPN and Let's Connect! apps. It was designed for educational institutions but is open to anyone; under the name Let's Connect!, with its own project site, it is also aimed at internet providers, hosters and businesses. Operators install it on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or an Enterprise Linux distribution and choose between WireGuard and OpenVPN. Users can sign in through a local user database, LDAP, RADIUS, OIDC, SAML or client certificates. Multi-server set-ups for load balancing or high availability are documented as well.

eduVPN is developed within the eduVPN programme of The Commons Conservancy, a foundation established under Dutch law in 2016. The programme holds the copyright. The source code is released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later and hosted on Codeberg. Because the server software runs on your own systems, you decide where the data is kept. Development has received support from NLnet, among others.

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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 16, 2026
Headquarters
NL (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
Category
VPN
Type
Product
Website
docs.eduvpn.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to eduVPN

The European alternatives to eduVPN come from our knowledge base of over 9,500 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 eduVPN

eduVPN is headquartered in NL 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 eduVPN scores best on data residency.

eduVPN 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 eduVPN 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 eduVPN?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to eduVPN include AdGuard VPN, AirVPN and Avast SecureLine VPN. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to eduVPN?

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

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

eduVPN is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes eduVPN 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 16, 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".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 16, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

In the changelog

Earlier changes to this page, as listed in the public changelog.

Digital sovereignty in VPN

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