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PM4Py: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

PM4Py is an open-source process mining library for Python. Developers, researchers and data analysts call ready-made functions instead of building the algorithms themselves. It supports process discovery (directly-follows graphs, Petri nets, BPMN models and process trees), conformance checking, performance analysis, process statistics, organisational mining, event-log filtering and object-centric process mining. You install PM4Py with pip and run it inside your own Python environment.

PM4Py was developed at Fraunhofer FIT. Since 2024, Process Intelligence Solutions GmbH, a spin-off of Fraunhofer FIT, has been responsible for its development, maintenance, distribution and licensing. The community version is released under the GNU AGPL v3, which means software that uses PM4Py must itself be published as open source under the AGPL; a commercial licence is available for closed-source use. Because the library runs locally, your event data stays in your own environment, with no mandatory cloud service or external processing. For European organisations this is a straightforward route to process mining with full control over the data.

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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

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Facts and evidence

Last checked October 5, 2026
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryProcess Mining & RPA
TypeProduct
Websiteprocessintelligence.solutions ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to PM4Py

The European alternatives to PM4Py 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 PM4Py

PM4Py 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 PM4Py scores best on data residency.

PM4Py 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 PM4Py 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 PM4Py?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to PM4Py include ARIS (Software AG), bupaR and Celonis. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to PM4Py?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to PM4Py include bupaR and OpenRPA. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is PM4Py GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

PM4Py is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes PM4Py 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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Digital sovereignty in Process Mining & RPA

Process Mining & RPA: Process analysis on system logs, process improvement and robotic process automation of administrative tasks. 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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