EU Sovereignty Score
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Publik: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Publik is a free, modular platform that lets citizens and public administrations simplify their interactions. Its core is citizen relationship management and appointment booking (GRU), complemented by business applications built on workflows and forms, for example Publik Famille for municipal family services. According to its makers it is natively connected to FranceConnect, the French digital identity service. A catalogue of freely available procedures and a user club of local authorities exist around it.

Publik is developed by Entr'ouvert, a cooperative company in Paris. The software is free under the GNU GPL (version 2 or later). Entr'ouvert delivers Publik only as SaaS: the infrastructure runs on physical machines at the French hosting provider OVH, and the company states that it respects the GDPR and guarantees reversibility of both data and code. A SaaS variant certified for hosting health data (HDS) is also offered. You can therefore inspect the code, but the offering itself is a hosted service.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
BPM & Workflow
Type
Product
Website
publik.entrouvert.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Publik

The European alternatives to Publik come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 Publik

Publik is headquartered in FR 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 Publik scores best on data residency.

Publik 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 Publik 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 Publik?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Publik include Albato, ARIS and Automatisch. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Publik?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Publik include Automatisch, Ofelia (Bonita) and CIB seven. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Publik is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Publik 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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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in BPM & Workflow

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