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Xperience by Kentico: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Xperience by Kentico is the digital experience platform of Kentico Software, designed for organisations that run websites, portals and digital customer journeys. The platform can be taken as a fully managed SaaS service or installed on-premise on the organisation's own infrastructure. The choice between these two hosting models rests with the customer.

Kentico Software is headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic. Its privacy policy names several group companies that may act as controller, including Kentico Software s.r.o. in Brno. According to that policy, personal data may be transferred outside the European Union, with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and European Commission standard contractual clauses cited as safeguards. The data locations for the SaaS service are described on a separate page, so customers should request them in writing before choosing SaaS. With an on-premise installation, the organisation itself decides where its data is stored.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 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-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 10, 2026

Headquarters	CZ (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	CMS
Type	Product
Website	kentico.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Xperience by Kentico

The European alternatives to Xperience by Kentico come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Xperience by Kentico

Xperience by Kentico is headquartered in CZ 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 Xperience by Kentico scores best on data residency.

Xperience by Kentico 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 Xperience by Kentico 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 Xperience by Kentico?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Xperience by Kentico include Ametys, Bolt CMS and caisy. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Xperience by Kentico?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Xperience by Kentico include Ametys, Bolt CMS, Cockpit CMS, Contao and django CMS. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Xperience by Kentico GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Xperience by Kentico is headquartered in CZ (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Xperience by Kentico 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 10, 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".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

security.txt: kentico.com/.well-known/security.txt

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 10, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in CMS

CMS: Content management systems — websites, headless CMS, digital experience platforms. 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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