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Pirsch Analytics: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Pirsch Analytics is a privacy-friendly web analytics service offered as an alternative to Google Analytics. It provides a dashboard with filters and reports, funnels, session summaries, custom events and conversion goals, webhooks, team management, email reports, shareable dashboards and white labelling. Imports from Plausible, Fathom and Google Analytics are possible. You integrate Pirsch with a script, CMS plugins or through the API. According to the provider, the service works without cookies, and Pirsch does not store visitors' personally identifiable information.

Pirsch is operated by Emvi Software GmbH in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany, and by its own account is made and hosted in Germany, on a server cluster there. The sources name no foreign parent company. The provider makes data processing agreements available in English and German. The website does not say which hosting provider is used, and whether a self-hosting option exists has not been confirmed. For a European organisation this means a service under German law, with processing inside the EU.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-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-655
    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
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalHETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryAnalytics
TypeProduct
Websitepirsch.io ↗

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 Pirsch Analytics

The European alternatives to Pirsch Analytics 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 Pirsch Analytics

Pirsch Analytics 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 Pirsch Analytics scores best on data residency.

Pirsch Analytics 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 Pirsch Analytics 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 Pirsch Analytics?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Pirsch Analytics 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 Pirsch Analytics?

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

Is Pirsch Analytics GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Pirsch Analytics is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Pirsch Analytics 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".

Security page / trust center
pirsch.io/legal

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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