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Gravitee.io: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Gravitee is a platform for managing APIs, events and AI agents, built around an open-source API gateway. Its products cover API gateway, observability, governance and a developer portal, an event gateway that mediates protocols and governs Kafka streams, and agent management features for securing AI, MCP and agent-to-agent traffic. A free Community Edition is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, and its code is public on GitHub. Commercial editions add enterprise functionality and are also offered as Gravitee Cloud, with Gravitee-hosted gateways and a managed control plane.

Gravitee is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, in the United States, with an engineering office in Lille, France, and a European office in London. As a US-headquartered company it falls under US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. Gravitee Cloud runs on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Its documentation lists EU options: the control plane runs in the Netherlands, and hosted gateways are available in the Netherlands, Dublin and Frankfurt. Regions in the US, Australia, Switzerland and the UAE are also offered, so European organisations should select an EU region explicitly.

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Sovereignty score

61 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, CH, OTHER)
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-675
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, CH, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	API Management
Type	Product
Website	gravitee.io ↗

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 Gravitee.io

The European alternatives to Gravitee.io 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 Gravitee.io

Gravitee.io is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Gravitee.io hosts data in EU, US, CH, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Gravitee.io 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 Gravitee.io 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 Gravitee.io?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Gravitee.io include Alumio, Apideck and Axway. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Gravitee.io?

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

Is Gravitee.io GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Gravitee.io is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US, CH, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 9, 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): gravitee.io/data-processing-agreement
Security page / trust center: gravitee.io/security-at-gravitee

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 23, 2026.

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