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Infomaniak: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Infomaniak is a Swiss provider of hosting and cloud services. Its offering covers web hosting, domain names, cloud computing (public cloud, Kubernetes, VPS), streaming and kSuite, a collaboration suite that includes Mail, kDrive for storage, kChat for messaging, kMeet for video meetings, calendar, contacts, word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools, SwissTransfer and the AI assistant Euria. kSuite is aimed at individuals and organisations and is delivered as SaaS. The software is proprietary; according to Infomaniak it is either developed in-house or open source.

Infomaniak is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The company states that its employees hold the majority of its capital; according to Wikipedia, most shares are to move to a public-interest foundation from 2026. Infomaniak states that kSuite is hosted and processed exclusively in Switzerland, in data centres it designs and manages itself. Switzerland is not an EU member state, so Swiss law applies alongside the GDPR for European organisations. Infomaniak has held ISO 27001 certification since 2018.

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Sovereignty score

67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
Data residency SOV-380
Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
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	CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	CHVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	Infomaniak-AS - Infomaniak Network SA, CH (CH)Technically measured
Category	Collaboration
Type	Product
Website	infomaniak.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 Infomaniak

The European alternatives to Infomaniak 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 Infomaniak

Infomaniak is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Infomaniak hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

Infomaniak 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 Infomaniak 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 Infomaniak?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Infomaniak 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 Infomaniak?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Infomaniak 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 Infomaniak GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Infomaniak is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Infomaniak 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 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): infomaniak.com/documents/privacy/DPA/Data_Processing_Agreement_(DPA).pdf
EU hosting documented: infomaniak.com/en/hosting

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

ISO/IEC 27001Vendor-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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