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Geoapify: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Geoapify is a location platform for developers, with APIs for map tiles (raster and vector), static maps, geocoding, reverse geocoding and address autocomplete, routing, route matrices, map matching, isolines, places and elevation data. The services are available through HTTP endpoints and SDKs and work with libraries such as Leaflet, MapLibre GL and OpenLayers. They are built on open data including OpenStreetMap, GeoNames and OpenAddresses. Besides the hosted service, Geoapify offers on-premise, dedicated and managed installations.

According to its privacy policy, the services run in European data centres at Hetzner, and Geoapify describes itself as an EU business that follows the GDPR. It also uses Cloudflare for performance and security and Bunny CDN for API calls on the .eu domain. Further suppliers handle registration data, payments and marketing, including Google Firebase, 2Checkout and Brevo, for which no processing location is stated. The platform itself is not open source, although the underlying data is open. For European organisations, the key step is therefore to review the data processing agreement and the listed sub-processors.

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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	DE (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	Maps & Navigation
Type	Product
Website	geoapify.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 Geoapify

The European alternatives to Geoapify 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 Geoapify

Geoapify 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 Geoapify scores best on data residency.

Geoapify 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 Geoapify 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 Geoapify?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Geoapify include BRouter, calimoto and cartes.gouv.fr. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Geoapify?

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

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

Geoapify is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Geoapify 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): geoapify.com/privacy-policy/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 23, 2026.

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Maps & Navigation: Maps, route planning and navigation services. 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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