Self-hosted / open sourceEndpoint & Device ManagementHeadquarters: ES

OpenUEM: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OpenUEM is an open-source, self-hosted Unified Endpoint Manager. Agents on endpoints report an organisation's IT assets to a web console. The agents run on Windows, Linux (Debian and Red Hat families) and macOS. Features include inventory, remote assistance over VNC or RDP, file transfer over SFTP, application management through Winget, Flatpak and Homebrew, and visibility of Windows updates and antivirus status. The server runs on Windows 10 Home, Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat-derived distributions or in Docker. It is an alternative to Microsoft Intune or Configuration Manager for organisations that want to run endpoint management themselves.

OpenUEM is written in Go and released under the Apache 2.0 licence. The project is maintained by an individual developer; the open-uem GitHub organisation lists Spain as its location. There is no vendor cloud: management data stays on your own servers, so you decide the location and jurisdiction.

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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 October 13, 2026

Headquarters	ES (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Endpoint & Device Management
Type	Product
Website	openuem.eu ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to OpenUEM

The European alternatives to OpenUEM come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 OpenUEM

OpenUEM is headquartered in ES 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 OpenUEM scores best on data residency.

OpenUEM 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 OpenUEM 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 OpenUEM?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OpenUEM include Aagon ACMP, Applivery and AppTec360. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to OpenUEM?

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

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

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