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Framer: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Framer is a website builder and content management platform for designers and teams. Sites are designed on a canvas, and the company says hosting, security, analytics and a built-in CMS are included. The product is delivered as a cloud service, so the design and publishing tools run in the browser and the published sites are hosted by the provider.

Framer B.V. has its registered office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its privacy statement says that hosting runs on Amazon Web Services and that the servers used are located in the United States. It states that transfers follow Chapter V of the GDPR, rely on EU model clauses and, where the recipient is certified, on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The statement does not say that customer data can be kept only in EU regions. For a European organisation, the Dutch seat and GDPR transfer terms are relevant, but the US hosting location and the reliance on a US cloud provider belong in the risk assessment.

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Sovereignty score
49 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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-645
    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 10, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCMS
TypeProduct
Websiteframer.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Framer

The European alternatives to Framer come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Framer

Framer is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Framer 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.

Framer 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 Framer 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 Framer?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Framer include Ametys, Bolt CMS and caisy. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Framer?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Framer include Ametys, Bolt CMS, Cockpit CMS, Contao and django CMS. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Framer is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in US. That makes Framer 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 10, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 10, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in CMS

CMS: Content management systems — websites, headless CMS, digital experience platforms. 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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