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Factorial: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Factorial is a Spanish HR platform that combines HR, finance and IT management in one environment. Its modules cover time off and time tracking, shift and project management, performance management, applicant tracking, onboarding and offboarding, training, payroll and electronic signatures. Factorial also offers management of devices and SaaS applications, expense handling and corporate cards. The platform is aimed at HR, finance and IT teams, among others, and works through the web and mobile apps, with an open API and an integration marketplace.

Factorial HR, S.L. is a Spanish limited company based in Barcelona. According to an independent analysis, its infrastructure runs mainly on AWS in Ireland. The company's trust centre lists Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and AWS as sub-processors and names ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 3 as certifications, without specifying regions. For a European organisation Factorial is therefore an EU vendor; it is best to settle in the contract which regions are used for your data.

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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 2, 2026
Headquarters
ES (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
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
HR
Type
Product
Website
factorialhr.com ↗

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 Factorial

The European alternatives to Factorial 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 Factorial

Factorial is headquartered in ES 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 Factorial scores best on data residency.

Factorial 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 Factorial 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 Factorial?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Factorial include AFAS, AlexisHR and ATOSS Workforce Intelligence. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Factorial?

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

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

Factorial is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Factorial 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 2, 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".

Security page / trust center
factorialhr.com/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in HR

HR: Human resources — personnel management, payroll, recruiting. 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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