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Eraser: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Eraser is a diagramming and documentation tool for engineering and product teams. It generates diagrams from text, code or uploaded files such as Terraform configurations and design documents, and the results can be edited by hand on a canvas. It integrates with GitHub, Confluence, Notion and VS Code and runs in a web browser, and the vendor states that single-tenant and self-hosted deployments are available to enterprise customers.

Eraser Labs, Inc. is a US company, and its privacy policy gives an address in San Francisco, California. The United States is outside the EU and EEA, and as a US company the vendor is subject to US law. The privacy policy names no hosting region or European data centre and does not mention the GDPR or a data processing agreement; for security documentation the vendor refers to a trust portal. The single-tenant and self-hosted options give an organisation more control over where diagram content and code references are stored. The vendor publishes an agent toolkit under the MIT licence; the main product is not presented as open source.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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 11, 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
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Whiteboarding & Visual Collaboration
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Eraser

The European alternatives to Eraser 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 Eraser

Eraser 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.

Eraser 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.

Eraser 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 Eraser 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 Eraser?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Eraser include Collaboard, Conceptboard and Explain Everything. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Eraser?

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

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

Eraser 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

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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