Non-EU vendorProcess Mining & RPAHeadquarters: CN

Laiye: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Laiye builds digital workers based on large language models for enterprises and governments. Its Work Execution Platform has a control plane (Laiye Shifu) for governing agents, an execution layer (Laiye Worker) and skills for process automation, document processing and customer experience. The company was founded in 2015, and its offering includes RPA, intelligent document processing and conversational AI. Ready-made agents exist too, for example for accounts payable, lead generation and candidate screening. Third-party agents can call its skills, and listed integrations include Feishu, WeCom, CRM and finance systems.

Laiye is headquartered in China, with a Singapore office that serves as its Asia-Pacific headquarters. The software is not open source. The company has been building a European presence, with sales leaders for the UK, Spain, Portugal and the DACH region. The pages consulted do not state deployment options or hosting regions, so European organisations should ask whether data can be processed within the EU. Laiye is a Chinese company and falls under Chinese jurisdiction rather than European law.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (CN)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
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 5, 2026

Headquarters	CN (OTHER)	Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	No — no adequacy decision	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, OTHER	Verified by hand
Open-source	No	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Category	Process Mining & RPA
Type	Product
Website	laiye.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Laiye

The European alternatives to Laiye 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 Laiye

Laiye is headquartered in CN, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Laiye hosts data in EU, OTHER. 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.

Laiye 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 Laiye 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 Laiye?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Laiye include ARIS (Software AG), bupaR and Celonis. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Laiye?

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

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

Laiye is headquartered in CN (OTHER) and hosts data in EU, OTHER. 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

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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