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Lumi: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lumi helps educators create, host and share interactive H5P content. H5P is an open-source tool for quizzes, interactive videos, presentations and games. With Lumi you build assessments, learning modules and educational games without programming, track learner progress in reports, and share content through a link, a website embed or a printable QR code. Content can be exported as HTML, SCORM or H5P, and integrations exist for Moodle, WordPress and Drupal. Lumi consists of the Lumi Desktop Editor, an offline editor, and Lumi Cloud, an online platform.

Lumi Education UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is based in Ohrum, Germany. According to Lumi, the Lumi Cloud servers are located within the European Union and run on established cloud providers that comply with the GDPR; Lumi does not name a country or provider. For personal data Lumi acts as a processor, and a data processing agreement is available. Lumi publishes its H5P Node.js library and the desktop editor on GitHub. A European organisation can therefore use the offline editor without any server at all.

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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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	E-learning Authoring
Type	Product
Website	lumi.education ↗

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 Lumi

The European alternatives to Lumi 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

34 European E-learning Authoring vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Lumi

Lumi 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 Lumi scores best on data residency.

Lumi 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 Lumi 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 Lumi?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Lumi include 360Learning, Attensi and bettermarks. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Lumi?

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

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

Lumi is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Lumi 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".

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Digital sovereignty in E-learning Authoring

E-learning Authoring: E-learning authoring software, interactive content and presentation tools. 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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