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Self-hosted / open sourceAnalyticsHeadquarters: DE

Offen: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Offen is an open-source web analytics tool that its makers describe as lightweight, self-hosted and free. It shows page views, users, top pages and weekly retention, with filters for URL, location, referrer and UTM parameters, among others. One installation can serve several websites, and accounts can be shared within teams. Visitors give consent through a customisable banner and can view and delete their own data. According to the project, usage data is end-to-end encrypted and the server cannot decrypt it. Offen uses first-party cookies only.

The code is licensed under Apache-2.0. You run Offen yourself, as a single binary or a Docker image, optionally with SQLite; the website mentions no hosted service. The data then sits on your own infrastructure, in the region of your choice. The website is operated by Frederik Ring in Berlin and hosted by Hetzner in Germany. The project was partly funded by NLnet's Next Generation Internet programme. According to its makers, all components have been mature since summer 2024.

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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
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalHETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryAnalytics
TypeProduct
Websiteoffen.dev ↗

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 Offen

The European alternatives to Offen 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 Offen

Offen 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 Offen scores best on data residency.

Offen 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 Offen 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 Offen?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Offen include Ackee, Adjust and Alceris. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Offen?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Offen include Ackee, Aptabase and Counter. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

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

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
offen.dev/legal-privacy/
EU hosting documented
offen.dev/legal-privacy/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Analytics

Analytics: Business intelligence, data visualisation, web analytics. 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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