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Self-hosted / open sourceCollaborationHeadquarters: FR

Huly: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Huly is an open-source all-in-one platform for project management and team collaboration, positioned as an alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack and Notion. It includes issue tracking, a team planner, chat, collaboratively edited documents, a virtual office with audio and video calls, and two-way GitHub sync. The underlying Huly Platform also covers apps for CRM, HR and applicant tracking. Today Huly can only be run on your own infrastructure, using Docker.

The Huly Platform code is on GitHub under the EPL-2.0 licence and was created by Huly Labs. The developer's hosted cloud service has been discontinued because its hosting was no longer funded. The original repository is frozen, and development continues in a community fork, Platform Collective. Self-hosting is aimed at developers: it requires tools such as Node.js, Docker and Rush, and local installations cannot send email. Whoever runs Huly themselves decides where the data lives, but depends on a community project for updates.

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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 4, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingSelf-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryCollaboration
TypeProduct
Websitehuly.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 Huly

The European alternatives to Huly 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 Huly

Huly 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 Huly scores best on data residency.

Huly 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 Huly 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 Huly?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Huly include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad and Nextcloud Deck. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Huly?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Huly include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad, Nextcloud Deck, FluffyChat and HedgeDoc. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Huly is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Huly 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 4, 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".

Security page / trust center
huly.io/legal/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Collaboration

Collaboration: Team communication, file sharing, video conferencing, document editing. 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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