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Self-hosted / open sourceAIHeadquarters: DE

F13 KI Assistenz: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

F13 is an open-source AI assistant for public administration. The software provides modular generative-AI functions for everyday office work: chat, summaries, drafting texts, research across your own documents, transcription and image generation, used through the browser. F13 is built from microservices and is model-agnostic; it is optimised for open language models.

F13 was designed under the lead of the innovation lab of the Baden-Württemberg state government (State Ministry, Stuttgart) and has been open source under the MPL-2.0 licence since 2025. A community of administrations and developers continues its development. Organisations run F13 on their own infrastructure with the language models of their choice, so content stays under their control; according to the project, content is neither stored nor passed on. There is no hosted service for newcomers: the project states that no test instance is currently available and that your own deployment is required.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
DE (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
AI
Type
Product
Website
f13-os.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to F13 KI Assistenz

The European alternatives to F13 KI Assistenz come from our knowledge base of over 9,300 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 F13 KI Assistenz

F13 KI Assistenz 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 F13 KI Assistenz scores best on data residency.

F13 KI Assistenz 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 F13 KI Assistenz 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 F13 KI Assistenz?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to F13 KI Assistenz include Acapela Group, aiaibot and Aleph Alpha. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to F13 KI Assistenz?

Our list of EU alternatives to F13 KI Assistenz is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is F13 KI Assistenz GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

F13 KI Assistenz is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes F13 KI Assistenz an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in AI

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