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Kimai: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kimai is an open-source time-tracking platform for project-driven teams. It records working hours and analyses them by user, customer, project and activity, and it can create invoices from configurable templates in PDF or DOCX format, as well as e-invoices in XML and PDF/A. It also offers roles and teams, login via LDAP or SAML, a JSON API, plugins, exports to formats such as XLSX and CSV, and support for more than thirty languages. Kimai can be self-hosted, for example with Docker, and is also available as a managed service called Kimai Cloud.

According to the project, the self-hosted version is 100% open source under the AGPL 3, so you keep full control of your data. The privacy policy names an individual in Vienna, Austria, as the responsible party and states that Kimai Cloud runs at Hetzner Online GmbH, with the server location in Falkenstein, Germany. Both the provider and the hosting therefore sit within the EU.

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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 9, 2026

Headquarters	AT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	ERP & Finance
Type	Product
Website	kimai.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 Kimai

The European alternatives to Kimai 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 Kimai

Kimai is headquartered in AT 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 Kimai scores best on data residency.

Kimai 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 Kimai 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 Kimai?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Kimai include 24SevenOffice, A3ERP and Abacus. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Kimai?

Our list of EU alternatives to Kimai is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

Kimai is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Kimai 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): kimai.org/en/privacy-policy.html
Security page / trust center: kimai.org/en/privacy-policy.html

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

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