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nyris: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

nyris is a visual search technology from Berlin, offered by nyris GmbH. Users photograph a part or upload an image and find matching items in a catalogue; searches by keyword, code or 3D CAD file are also supported. The product range includes a spare-parts search suite, visual search APIs with SDKs for Android, iOS and JavaScript, a pipeline that generates training images from CAD data, and a portal for monitoring search activity. The search suite can be used as a ready-made tool or connected to commerce and service applications through an API.

nyris GmbH is registered in Berlin (Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 169967), and its managing directors are the company's founders. The website names no parent company or owner, and the software is not presented as open source. The website does not say where search data or customer catalogues are hosted; a partner list names Cloud&Heat without describing its role. For a European organisation, hosting, sub-processors and data-processing terms should therefore be checked in the contract before any catalogue or user images are uploaded.

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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 10, 2026

Headquarters	DE (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	AI
Type	Product
Website	nyris.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to nyris

The European alternatives to nyris 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 nyris

nyris is headquartered in DE 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 nyris scores best on data residency.

nyris 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 nyris 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 nyris?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to nyris include Aleph Alpha, Almato and Almawave. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to nyris?

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

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

nyris is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes nyris 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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Compliance evidence

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