Self-hosted / open sourceProject ManagementHeadquarters: FR

Kitsu: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kitsu is a production tracker for animation, visual effects and game studios. It organises shots, assets, tasks and schedules, lets artists and supervisors follow and review work, and tracks progress across the production pipeline. It is a web application that studios can run on their own servers with Docker. CGWire also offers a hosted version, with managed hosting and updates, for teams that do not want to operate the software themselves.

CGWire SAS is a French company with its registered office in Paris, and its terms are governed by French law. The source code is published on GitHub under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, so the software is open source and open to inspection. The privacy notice lists OVH in France as the default host for instances, and names sub-processors in the United States. It does not mention the GDPR or a data processing agreement. For a European studio, self-hosting keeps production data on its own infrastructure, while the hosted version requires checking the data flows with CGWire.

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Sovereignty score

92 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
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-690
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 12, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	cg-wire.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Kitsu

The European alternatives to Kitsu come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 Kitsu

Kitsu is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Kitsu hosts data in EU, US. 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.

Kitsu 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 Kitsu 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 Kitsu?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Kitsu include Arinto, awork and Bitrix24. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Kitsu?

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

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

Kitsu is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Kitsu 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 12, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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