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Kasm Workspaces: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kasm Workspaces is a container streaming platform that delivers desktops, applications and isolated browser sessions to a web browser. Organisations use it for remote desktops and workspaces, app streaming, secure remote access and browser isolation. It can be deployed on a customer's own servers or in the cloud, and the vendor also offers a SaaS option. The vendor lists open-source offerings, including workspace images, the KasmVNC remote display component and deployment automation for Ansible and Terraform.

The developer is Kasm Technologies, whose website gives its headquarters as McLean, Virginia, in the United States. The site does not name owners or investors. Because the platform can run on infrastructure the customer controls, a European organisation can keep sessions and data on servers it operates, for example in an EU data centre. The website does not state where its SaaS service runs, and the main page shows no explicit GDPR statement. As a US company, Kasm is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act, for data it holds, so the choice of deployment model and cloud region should be made deliberately.

Sovereignty score
55 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-645
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in US (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Kasm Workspaces

The European alternatives to Kasm Workspaces 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 Kasm Workspaces

Kasm Workspaces 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.

Kasm Workspaces runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Kasm Workspaces is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Kasm Workspaces 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 Kasm Workspaces?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Kasm Workspaces include AnyDesk, DWService and FastViewer. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Kasm Workspaces?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Kasm Workspaces include DWService. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Kasm Workspaces GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Kasm Workspaces is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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