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Nyxt: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Nyxt is a keyboard-driven, extensible web browser aimed at power users and described by the project as the hacker's browser. It is written in Common Lisp and can be modified through Lisp, with a built-in Lisp REPL for scripts and workflows. The stable 3.x series renders with WebKitGTK; the 4.0 pre-releases add Electron as a second renderer. Linux comes first, installed through Flatpak, distribution packages or source, while macOS and Windows support is in development.

Nyxt is open source under the BSD three-clause licence. It was started in 2017 by John Mercouris and is sponsored by Atlas, a small company focused on Common Lisp development. The project material consulted does not state where that company is based. The browser runs locally and is not a hosted service; its rendering engines come from third-party projects.

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Sovereignty score

94 / 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-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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	FR (EU)	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributed	Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU	Verified by hand
Open-source	Yes	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see below	Vendor-stated
Hosting signal	DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean, LLC, US (US)	Technically measured
Category	Browser
Type	Product
Website	nyxt-browser.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 Nyxt

The European alternatives to Nyxt come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Nyxt

Nyxt 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 Nyxt scores best on data residency.

Nyxt is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Nyxt 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 Nyxt?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Nyxt include Ecosia Browser, Falkon and Iridium Browser. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Nyxt?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Nyxt include Falkon, Iridium Browser, Konqueror, LibreWolf, Midori and Mullvad Browser. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Nyxt is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Nyxt 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

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".

Security page / trust center: nyxt-browser.com/legal

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

Report a vulnerability: github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/security/policy
Supported versions: github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/security/policy

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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