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Malt: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Malt is a French online marketplace for freelance professionals. The platform connects independent specialists with companies that need them for projects, and it adds administrative, legal, invoicing and payment functions around each assignment. The service is offered online to businesses in several European markets. The company was founded in 2013.

Malt is headquartered in Paris, so it is a French company subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Its public information does not state where customer data is hosted. Organisations with strict data residency requirements should ask the company directly before using the platform for sensitive assignments. Malt is a service operated by the vendor itself, so European customers depend on its hosting and contract terms. No foreign parent company is named.

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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 October 13, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Recruitment & ATS
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Malt

The European alternatives to Malt come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Malt

Malt 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 Malt scores best on data residency.

Malt 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 Malt 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 Malt?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Malt include Adeptiq, Altamira Recruiting and Alva Labs. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Malt?

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

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

Malt is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Malt 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 October 13, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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