EU Sovereignty Score
Self-hosted / open sourceFinOps & Cloud Cost ManagementHeadquarters: US

OpenCost: sovereignty score and 6 European alternatives

OpenCost is a vendor-neutral, open-source project for measuring and allocating cloud infrastructure and container costs in real time. It breaks Kubernetes spending down to namespace, workload and container level, for CPU, GPU, memory and persistent volumes. It takes pricing from the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud billing APIs, supports custom pricing for on-premises clusters and exports data to Prometheus. It is not a hosted service: you run it yourself in your own clusters.

OpenCost is a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), where it reached Incubating status in October 2024. Kubecost built the original allocation engine, and companies such as Amazon, Adobe, Google and Microsoft have supported the project. The software is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence and runs wherever you deploy it, including on-premises, so cost data can stay in your own infrastructure. For a European organisation this gives control over data location and avoids dependence on a single vendor, although the foundation is based in the United States.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (On-premise capable)
  • 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-665
    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 October 4, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingOn-premise capableVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryFinOps & Cloud Cost Management
TypeProduct
Websiteopencost.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to OpenCost

The European alternatives to OpenCost 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 OpenCost

OpenCost is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

OpenCost hosts data outside the EU (On-premise capable). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

OpenCost 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 OpenCost 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 OpenCost?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OpenCost include Cloudchipr, CloudCockpit and Costory. On this page you can compare 6 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to OpenCost?

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

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

OpenCost is headquartered in US and hosts data in On-premise capable. 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 4, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in FinOps & Cloud Cost Management

FinOps & Cloud Cost Management: Cloud cost visibility, optimisation and chargeback across multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments. 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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