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Self-hosted / open sourceSocial MediaHeadquarters: HK

Postiz: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Postiz is a social media management platform for scheduling, automating and analysing content across social networks. Users plan posts in a visual calendar and review them before they are published. It can be self-hosted with Docker, in which case the operator provisions the server, creates developer apps for each network and handles updates and backups. It can also be used as the managed Postiz Cloud service. The codebase is published on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

Paid plans are sold by Gitroom Limited, a company incorporated in Hong Kong, outside the EU and EEA. The homepage does not state where the managed cloud service stores data, and it mentions no GDPR commitment. For a European organisation, the AGPL-3.0 licence allows self-hosting on infrastructure the organisation controls, which keeps content on its own servers. Connections to the social networks themselves still run to those platforms' services.

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Sovereignty score
77 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (HK)
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • 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-665
    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 11, 2026
Headquarters
HK (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
No — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in OTHER (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Social Media
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Postiz

The European alternatives to Postiz 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 Postiz

Postiz is headquartered in HK, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Postiz hosts data outside the EU (OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Postiz 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 Postiz 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 Postiz?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Postiz include Agorapulse, Akkoma and BeReal. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Postiz?

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

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

Postiz is headquartered in HK (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. 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 October 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Social Media

Social Media: Social networks — posts, media, communities. 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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