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Heptapod: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Heptapod is a software forge that adds Mercurial support to GitLab, so teams working with Mercurial repositories can use merge requests, issues, project management and continuous integration. The software is free and open source and is offered in two ways: as the hosted service Heptapod Cloud, or as a self-managed installation on the organisation's own infrastructure. The project was originally created by Octobus, and since March 2024 it has been maintained by CloudCrane under the Orbeet trademark.

CloudCrane, whose registered office the Orbeet legal notice places in Paris, maintains the product from France. The hosted service runs on Clever Cloud infrastructure; Heptapod describes Clever Cloud as a French provider with data centres in Europe, and Clever Cloud publishes a GDPR statement and a data processing agreement. A self-managed installation keeps repositories on servers the organisation controls, while the hosted option keeps processing within a French and European supply chain. Organisations should still confirm the hosting location of their own instance.

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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 13, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	DevOps
Type	Product
Website	heptapod.net ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Heptapod

The European alternatives to Heptapod come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 Heptapod

Heptapod 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 Heptapod scores best on data residency.

Heptapod 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 Heptapod 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 Heptapod?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Heptapod include Buddy, CFEngine and Checkmk. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Heptapod?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Heptapod include CFEngine, Checkmk, Codeberg and Eclipse Che. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Heptapod is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Heptapod an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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DevOps: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, container registries. 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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