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malibou: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

malibou is an HR and payroll platform for small and mid-sized businesses. It brings together leave and planning, time tracking, expense claims, onboarding and offboarding, reviews and objectives, and a chat channel with a dedicated payroll expert. According to the vendor, payroll is produced in partnership with Silae. API documentation is available for connecting other tools, and the platform is delivered as an online service.

malibou is a French SAS with its registered office in Paris. According to its security page, data is stored in France on Amazon Web Services (AWS Paris) within the European Union; the privacy policy mentions servers in Ireland. The infrastructure runs through Supabase and sign-in is handled by Clerk. Amazon Web Services, Supabase and Clerk are US providers, so the US CLOUD Act can apply even to data held in an EU region. Sub-processors outside the EU rely, according to the vendor, on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and/or standard contractual clauses, with a data processing agreement signed with each. A data protection officer has been appointed. A self-hosted edition is not mentioned.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU and United States)
  • 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-645
    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 October 17, 2026
Headquarters
FranceVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EU and United StatesVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
HR
Type
Product
Website
malibou.com ↗

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European alternatives to malibou

The European alternatives to malibou come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 malibou

malibou is headquartered in France and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

malibou hosts data in the EU and the United States. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

malibou 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 malibou 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 malibou?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to malibou include absence.io, AFAS and AlexisHR. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to malibou?

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

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

malibou is headquartered in France (EU) and hosts data in the EU and the United States. That makes malibou 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 HR

HR: Human resources — personnel management, payroll, recruiting. 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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