EU Sovereignty Score
Self-hosted / open sourceLow-code / No-codeHeadquarters: US

Huginn: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Huginn is a self-hosted system for building agents that automate tasks on the internet. The project describes itself as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. Agents read the web, watch for events and act on the user's behalf, for example by scraping websites and sending an email when they change, sending and receiving webhooks, running custom JavaScript, or connecting to services such as Slack, Twilio, RSS, IMAP and MQTT.

Huginn is open source under the MIT licence. It was started in 2013 and has grown through many contributors; no company is named as its owner, so no commercial vendor or parent company is identified. Because you host it yourself, you decide where data is stored and processed, and execution stays within your own infrastructure, for example in a European data centre. Operations, security updates and continuity therefore rest with your own organisation.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-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 5, 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
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Low-code / No-code
Type
Product
Website
github.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Huginn

The European alternatives to Huginn 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 Huginn

Huginn 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 Huginn scores best on data residency.

Huginn 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 Huginn 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 Huginn?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Huginn include Appmixer, Baserow and Betty Blocks. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Huginn?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Huginn include Baserow, Convertigo and Corteza. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Huginn 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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