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Self-hosted / open sourceEndpoint & Device ManagementHeadquarters: FI

Puavo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Puavo is an IT solution for schools from Puavo GmbH. The platform manages devices and user accounts, provides a school operating system with a selection of software and a cloud environment for additional services, with single sign-on for students. Updates run automatically and teachers can reset students' passwords themselves. The company also provides maintenance, support and training, including remotely. According to the website, Puavo is open source and released under the GNU General Public License.

According to the website of Opinsys Oy of Jyväskylä, Puavo GmbH is based in Berlin and is a subsidiary of that Finnish company, so the group seat is in Finland. School data is kept, according to the Puavo website, in the company's own data centre in Jyväskylä, Finland, and copied nightly within that data centre. The site states that user data is not sold or passed to third parties. An explicit GDPR statement is not on the pages consulted, so ask the vendor for it.

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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

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 15, 2026
Headquarters
FI (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Endpoint & Device Management
Type
Product
Website
puavo.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Puavo

The European alternatives to Puavo come from our knowledge base of over 9,400 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 Puavo

Puavo is headquartered in FI 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 Puavo scores best on data residency.

Puavo 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 Puavo 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 Puavo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Puavo include Aagon ACMP, Appaloosa and Applivery. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Puavo?

Our list of EU alternatives to Puavo is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

Puavo is headquartered in FI (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Puavo 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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