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Jitsi: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Jitsi is open-source video conferencing software, with Jitsi Meet as the web application and apps for iOS and Android (App Store, Google Play, F-Droid). Participants can join without an account. Components include Jitsi Videobridge, which forwards audio and video, Jicofo for coordination and Jigasi for dial-in over SIP. End-to-end encryption of audio, video and screen sharing is available in Chromium-based browsers, though not for chat or polls. Besides the public service at meet.jit.si there is a hosted offering called JaaS, and the software can also be installed on your own servers, for example on Debian or Ubuntu.

Jitsi has been owned since 2018 by the US company 8x8, Inc., which also holds the trademark, and is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Anyone who self-hosts decides where the data is located and gets no preconfigured analytics; jitsi.org itself advises self-hosting with strong authentication for stricter controls. meet.jit.si uses services such as Amplitude, Datadog and Crashlytics, and its physical hosting location is not stated.

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Sovereignty score

61 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
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 July 2, 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	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Collaboration
Type	Product
Website	jitsi.org ↗

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 Jitsi

The European alternatives to Jitsi 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 Jitsi

Jitsi 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.

Jitsi hosts data in US, EU. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Jitsi 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 Jitsi 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 Jitsi?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Jitsi?

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

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

Jitsi is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, 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

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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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".

Subprocessor list: jitsi.org/security/
Security page / trust center: jitsi.org/security/

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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