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Qdrant: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Qdrant is a vector database and vector similarity search engine written in Rust. Developers use it to store and search vectors with attached data, for example for semantic search and AI applications built on embeddings. Qdrant is released under the Apache 2.0 licence and can be self-hosted, for instance with Docker. The company also offers Qdrant Cloud as a managed service on AWS, GCP or Azure, a Hybrid Cloud on your own Kubernetes, a Private Cloud for isolated deployments and Qdrant Edge.

The company behind Qdrant is Qdrant Solutions GmbH, based in Berlin. The documentation does not list the hosting regions of the managed cloud; you choose the region when creating a cluster, and the managed service runs on US hyperscalers. Self-hosting on your own infrastructure or in a European cloud keeps the data entirely under your control. For a European organisation with strict jurisdiction requirements, self-hosting or the Hybrid Cloud is therefore the most verifiable route.

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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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	DE (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
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	AI
Type	Product
Website	qdrant.tech ↗

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 Qdrant

The European alternatives to Qdrant 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 Qdrant

Qdrant 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 Qdrant scores best on data residency.

Qdrant 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 Qdrant 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 Qdrant?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Qdrant include Aleph Alpha, Almato and Almawave. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Qdrant?

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

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

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

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