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Orq.ai: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Orq.ai is an AI gateway and LLMOps platform for teams that put AI applications and agents into production. A single API key gives access to models from several providers. Around it sits a governance layer with policies, guardrails, audit trails, PII redaction and budget limits, plus cost attribution per team, project or agent and an MCP gateway for scoped tool access. It is a European alternative to US LLMOps and observability services such as LangSmith. The service runs as managed SaaS, in the customer's own cloud, on-premises or fully air-gapped.

Orq.AI Holding B.V. is based in the Netherlands. According to the vendor, the managed service is hosted in the EU by default and there is no US parent company, hence no CLOUD Act exposure. The documentation states that all data on the hosted platform resides in EU data centres and that platform data is not used to train models. Prompts and data sent on to a model provider follow that provider's region and terms, which the customer chooses.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • 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-645
    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 12, 2026
Headquarters
NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
AI Cowork
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Orq.ai

The European alternatives to Orq.ai come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 Orq.ai

Orq.ai is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Orq.ai hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Orq.ai 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 Orq.ai 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 Orq.ai?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Orq.ai include 2501.ai, Agent Zero and Amberscript. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Orq.ai?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Orq.ai include Agent Zero and Cognee. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Orq.ai GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Orq.ai is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Orq.ai 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 October 12, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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