Non-EU vendorProject ManagementHeadquarters: IL

monday.com: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

monday.com is a work platform for teams, described by the company as an AI workspace where people and agents work together. Its products include monday work management for projects and tasks, monday CRM, monday dev, monday campaigns and monday service. It also offers an AI assistant, a builder for custom agents, and automations that move work between people and agents. You use it as SaaS through the web and through Android and iOS apps. The software is not open source.

monday.com is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is listed on Nasdaq. Customer data is stored per account in one of three regions: the United States, the EU (Germany) or Asia Pacific (Australia). The EU region runs on AWS in Frankfurt. Only for Enterprise accounts in the EU region does data, including data held by sub-processors, remain within the EU; on other plans, some components may be hosted outside the region. A European organisation that requires EU residency therefore needs to look at the plan.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (IL)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU, 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	IL (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	US, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	monday.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 monday.com

The European alternatives to monday.com 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 monday.com

monday.com is headquartered in IL, 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.

monday.com hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. 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.

monday.com 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 monday.com 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 monday.com?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to monday.com include awork, factro and MeisterTask. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to monday.com?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to monday.com include OpenProject, Taiga, Tuleap and WeKan. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is monday.com GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

monday.com is headquartered in IL (OTHER) and hosts data in US, EU, 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

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".

Subprocessor list: monday.com/privacy
Security page / trust center: monday.com/security
EU hosting documented: monday.com/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

CSA STARConfirmed in registry

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Project Management

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