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luckycloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

luckycloud is a German cloud storage provider for file sync and sharing, aimed at individuals, teams and companies. It offers synchronisation with selective sync, mobile apps, an online office editor, share and upload links, versioning, two-factor authentication, and WebDAV and optional S3 access. Client-side end-to-end encryption can be applied per folder. luckycloud also provides communication tools such as email, calendar and meetings. Larger plans add single sign-on and dedicated servers. According to a heise test, the service is based on Seafile.

luckycloud is headquartered in Berlin. heise reports that it operates exclusively German servers, and the provider presents itself as GDPR-compliant cloud storage from Germany. The sources consulted name no foreign parent company, and they do not show whether the service itself is open source. For European organisations this means German jurisdiction and hosting in Germany, with dedicated servers available on enterprise plans.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalluckycloud - luckycloud GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryCloud Storage (Personal)
TypeProduct
Websiteluckycloud.de ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to luckycloud

The European alternatives to luckycloud come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 luckycloud

luckycloud is headquartered in DE 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 luckycloud scores best on data residency.

luckycloud 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 luckycloud 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 luckycloud?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to luckycloud include CloudMe, Cozy Cloud and Cryptee. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to luckycloud?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to luckycloud include Cozy Cloud, Cryptee, Filen and Internxt. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

luckycloud is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes luckycloud 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
luckycloud.de/de/ratgeber/cloud-speicher/luckycloud-ist-testsieger-im-cloud-speicher-vergleich-bestnote-von-trusted.de

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Cloud Storage (Personal)

Cloud Storage (Personal): Personal cloud storage — sync and share files. 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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