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Migadu: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Migadu is an email hosting service for custom domains. You use your own domain and, according to the vendor, can create unlimited addresses; charges depend on usage rather than on the number of addresses. The service supports SMTP, IMAP4, POP3 and webmail, and offers Sieve filtering, aliases and catch-all addresses, auto-responders, forwarding, continuous backups and built-in DNS with preconfigured mail records. Several administrators with per-domain access are possible. It is delivered as software as a service.

Migadu-Mail GmbH is a self-funded, independent company registered in Schachen, Switzerland, operating since 2014. According to its FAQ, the servers are not in Switzerland but in data centres in France, which is inside the EU. The company says the service is built and run entirely on open source technologies, but the service itself is not open source. Migadu states that it uses no advertising or tracking and does not access, analyse or share user data. No foreign parent company is named. For a European organisation this combines a Swiss provider with storage in France.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
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

Headquarters	CH (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
Hosting signal	OVH - OVH SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
Category	Email (Personal)
Type	Product
Website	migadu.com ↗

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 Migadu

The European alternatives to Migadu 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

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Migadu

Migadu is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Migadu scores best on data residency.

Migadu 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 Migadu 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 Migadu?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Migadu include Bluewin Mail, CounterMail and Disroot. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Migadu?

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

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

Migadu is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes Migadu 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

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Email (Personal): Personal email services — inbox, calendar, contacts. 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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