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empirio.ai: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

empirio.ai is an AI-assisted online survey platform, successor to empirio.de. You build a questionnaire with AI from a short description, from a template, or by hand with more than 35 question types, drag and drop and skip logic. Surveys can be multilingual with automatic translation. AI summarises results and open-text answers. You share surveys by link, QR code, website embed or email, view results in a dashboard and export to CSV, Excel, JSON or SPSS. Target groups are businesses, schools, universities and private users. The service is delivered as SaaS and is not open source.

The privacy policy names Empirio UG (haftungsbeschränkt) in Hamelin, Germany, as controller. According to the vendor, all survey data is stored in the EU. The AI features are processed by Scaleway in France, exclusively on infrastructure within the EU. For its websites, the policy also lists providers outside the EU, such as Vercel (US) and Supabase (Singapore). Connecting external AI assistants is optional and falls under those providers' own terms.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents
1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Forms & Surveys
Type
Product
Website
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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 empirio.ai

The European alternatives to empirio.ai 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 empirio.ai

empirio.ai is headquartered in DE 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 empirio.ai scores best on data residency.

empirio.ai is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs empirio.ai 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 empirio.ai?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to empirio.ai include 123FormBuilder, AidaForm and Askia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to empirio.ai?

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

Is empirio.ai GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

empirio.ai is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes empirio.ai 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

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)
empirio.ai/privacy-policy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Forms & Surveys

Forms & Surveys: Online forms, surveys and feedback tools. 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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