Non-EU vendorLow-code / No-codeHeadquarters: US

OutSystems: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OutSystems is a low-code platform for building enterprise applications and, increasingly, AI agents. Developers assemble applications visually from reusable building blocks, can generate apps from natural-language prompts with a coding agent, and manage the lifecycle with DevOps tooling, integrations and a data layer. It targets organisations that want to build and run business-critical applications faster than with hand-written code.

OutSystems was founded in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001 and later established its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, so the vendor falls under US law, including the CLOUD Act. OutSystems Developer Cloud is offered in many regions, including Frankfurt and Ireland (Dublin), which supports EU data residency requirements. Since March 2026 a self-hosted option lets customers run ODC apps and data in their own private or public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes, and OutSystems says the platform can also run on-premises. The platform is proprietary, not open source. A European organisation should confirm region, support access and how generated applications could move elsewhere.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Low-code / No-code
Type	Product
Website	outsystems.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 OutSystems

The European alternatives to OutSystems come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 OutSystems

OutSystems 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.

OutSystems hosts data in US, EU. 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.

OutSystems 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 OutSystems 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 OutSystems?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OutSystems include Baserow, Convertigo and Corteza. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to OutSystems?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to OutSystems include Baserow, Convertigo and Corteza. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

OutSystems is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. 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 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".

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