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Formbricks: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Formbricks is an open-source experience management and survey platform. It collects customer feedback through surveys on websites, inside apps, by email and via links. You can target surveys at users with specific attributes and set up automated journeys, such as an onboarding survey at sign-up or a survey before a customer churns. Templates and integrations with your existing stack are available. Formbricks is offered as a hosted cloud service or as software you can self-host with Docker.

Formbricks GmbH is based in Kiel, Germany. The core of the software is licensed under the AGPLv3; code under the Enterprise licence sits in a separate directory and needs a licence key. According to its privacy policy, the cloud service is hosted in Germany and the AI features run on models hosted in Germany. If you self-host, you decide where the data is stored and how it is managed. For a European organisation, the open-source licence and the self-hosting option therefore offer a route to full control over survey data, alongside the German cloud.

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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 2, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents
3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Forms & Surveys
Type
Product
Website
formbricks.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 Formbricks

The European alternatives to Formbricks 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 Formbricks

Formbricks 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 Formbricks scores best on data residency.

Formbricks 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 Formbricks 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 Formbricks?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Formbricks 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 Formbricks?

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

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

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

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
formbricks.com/dpa
Security page / trust center
formbricks.com/gdpr
EU hosting documented
formbricks.com/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 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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