Non-EU vendorProject ManagementHeadquarters: US

Hive: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hive is an AI-powered work management platform that brings projects, tasks, workflows, collaboration, reporting, CRM and finance into one workspace. Teams work with views such as Kanban, Gantt, timeline, table, list, calendar and portfolio, and keep feedback and proofing tied to the work itself. It also offers time management, automations, integrations and an API, along with an AI assistant called Buzz that helps plan, assign and follow up on work. According to the vendor, it is aimed at teams such as marketing, PMOs, agencies, education, non-profits, sales and customer success. Hive is delivered as SaaS.

Hive is a US company (Hive Technology, Inc.) with an office in New York. As a US provider it is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. Hive states that all of its hosting is ISO 27001 accredited and that EU data controllers can request a data processing agreement. The vendor does not state where data is hosted. There is no open-source version and no self-hosted option.

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Sovereignty score

37 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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 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 (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (NL)Technically measured
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	hive.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 Hive

The European alternatives to Hive 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 Hive

Hive 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Hive scores best on data residency.

Hive 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 Hive 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 Hive?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Hive include Kanboard, OpenProject and Planka. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Hive?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Hive include Kanboard, OpenProject, Redmine (self-host), Taiga, Tuleap, WeKan and Wiki.js. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Hive is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU. 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

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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