Self-hosted / open sourceCollaborationHeadquarters: FR

Visio: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Visio is a video conferencing service from La Suite numérique, the open and sovereign workspace of the French government. It is created and operated by DINUM, the French interministerial directorate for digital affairs. People hold video meetings in the browser, and the service's website also lists call transcription and AI-generated summaries as features. The application is built with Django and React and uses the LiveKit real-time media platform. Visio is delivered as a hosted service that users reach through the web.

Several points matter for a European organisation. The operator is a French state directorate, the code is published on GitHub under the MIT licence, and the provider states that data is stored and processed in France on SecNumCloud-qualified hosting. The project documentation describes installation on your own servers with Kubernetes or Docker Compose, so an organisation can run its own instance. The website does not describe a GDPR data processing agreement or where the LiveKit components run, so those details should be requested directly before signing a contract.

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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 12, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Collaboration
Type	Product
Website	visio.numerique.gouv.fr ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Visio

The European alternatives to Visio 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 Visio

Visio 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Visio scores best on data residency.

Visio 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 Visio 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 Visio?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Visio include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad and Nextcloud Deck. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Visio?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Visio include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad, Nextcloud Deck and FluffyChat. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Visio is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Visio an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Collaboration

Collaboration: Team communication, file sharing, video conferencing, document editing. 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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