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Self-hosted / open sourceAIHeadquarters: FR

LinTO: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

LinTO is an open-source speech AI suite for transcription, live subtitling and meeting summarisation. LinTO Studio handles recordings and meetings, with AI-generated summaries, a collaborative transcript editor and meeting bots for Teams, Jitsi, BigBlueButton and Visio, among others. LinTO Live produces live subtitles and translation for rooms and attendees' phones, and supports the 24 official EU languages. It suits public bodies, associations and companies that want to turn spoken content into text. You can use it as a cloud service or install the platform yourself with Docker or Kubernetes, including on GPU servers.

LinTO is developed by LINAGORA, a French open-source software publisher whose international headquarters team is in Paris. The source code is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence on GitHub, where the repositories were still being updated in October 2026. LINAGORA's cloud service is hosted in France. If you deploy the platform on your own infrastructure, audio and transcripts stay on servers you control. A free plan covers basic use; according to the vendor, bots and live features belong to paid plans.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
AI
Type
Product
Website
linto.ai ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to LinTO

The European alternatives to LinTO come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 LinTO

LinTO 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 LinTO scores best on data residency.

LinTO 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 LinTO 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 LinTO?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to LinTO include Acapela Group, Aleph Alpha and Allinga TTS. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to LinTO?

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

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

LinTO is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes LinTO 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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Compliance evidence

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