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Mojeek: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Mojeek is an independent search engine with its own crawler and its own index, rather than relying on results from other search engines. Users search through the website; according to Mojeek, searches are not tracked, profiled or personalised. For developers, the company offers a Web Search API and a Site Search API, which let you embed results from its own index in other applications. The service is delivered as SaaS and the software is not open source.

Mojeek was started in 2004 by Marc Smith and is operated by Mojeek Limited, a company registered in England with an office in Brighton. According to public sources, its servers ran in Custodian data centres in the UK, at least as of 2017. The United Kingdom is outside the EU, so a European organisation should check how processing under UK law fits its requirements. Mojeek mentions funding from private investors but does not publish a full ownership breakdown.

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Sovereignty score

32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	GB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CUSTDC - CustodianDC Limited, GB (GB)Technically measured
Category	Search Engines
Type	Product
Website	mojeek.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 Mojeek

The European alternatives to Mojeek 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 Mojeek

Mojeek is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Mojeek hosts data outside the EU (OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Mojeek 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 Mojeek 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 Mojeek?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Mojeek include MetaGer, SearXNG and YaCy. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Mojeek?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Mojeek include MetaGer, SearXNG and YaCy. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Mojeek is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Search Engines

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