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Self-hosted / open sourceBusiness IntelligenceHeadquarters: PL

Livebook: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Livebook is an open-source interactive notebook in the browser for writing, running and documenting code. It is built for Elixir and the Erlang VM and supports Markdown, real-time collaboration, custom visualisations, and concurrent and distributed execution. Teams use it for data analysis and machine-learning workflows; support for Python is being added. It is available as a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux, as a Docker image and as firmware for embedded devices.

Livebook is maintained by Dashbit, which according to its privacy policy is based in Poland. The source code is on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 licence. Because you install Livebook yourself, notebooks and data can stay on your own infrastructure. The Python extension is being developed with support from NLnet's NGI0 Commons Fund and the European Commission. The project site also offers a template for running Livebook on Hugging Face, a third-party service for which separate arrangements are needed.

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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 16, 2026
Headquarters
PL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Business Intelligence
Type
Product
Website
livebook.dev ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Livebook

The European alternatives to Livebook come from our knowledge base of over 9,500 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 Livebook

Livebook is headquartered in PL 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 Livebook scores best on data residency.

Livebook 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 Livebook 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 Livebook?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Livebook include bimanu One, Bissantz (DeltaMaster) and Board International. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Livebook?

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

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

Livebook is headquartered in PL (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Livebook 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 Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence: Dashboards, management reporting, self-service BI and embedded analytics on business data. 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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