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GLPI: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

GLPI is open-source software for IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management. It combines a helpdesk with ticket management, a CMDB for the asset inventory, budget and financial management, and user and group administration. Native inventory, multi-entity support, ITIL compatibility and a marketplace for add-ons extend the core. Organisations can download GLPI and run it themselves, or use GLPI Network Cloud, a hosted offer launched in 2019.

GLPI is published by Teclib, a French company in Paris that has stewarded the project since 2015. Teclib states that the GLPI Network Cloud servers are hosted by OVH in France and that it does not transfer personal data outside the EU, the EEA or countries with equivalent protection unless the customer chooses to. Because the source code is open and the software can be self-hosted, a European organisation can keep data and administration on its own infrastructure or freely choose a hosting provider.

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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
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents4 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalOVH - OVH SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
CategoryITSM
TypeProduct
Websiteglpi-project.org ↗

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 GLPI

The European alternatives to GLPI 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 GLPI

GLPI is headquartered in FR 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 GLPI scores best on data residency.

GLPI 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 GLPI 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 GLPI?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to GLPI include Ardoq, Axxerion (Spacewell Workplace) and ADOIT. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to GLPI?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to GLPI include CMDBuild and Combodo iTop. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

GLPI is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes GLPI 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)
glpi-project.org/privacy
Subprocessor list
glpi-project.org/privacy
Security page / trust center
glpi-project.org/about
EU hosting documented
glpi-project.org/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in ITSM

ITSM: IT Service Management — ticketing, CMDB, asset management. 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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