EU sovereignCDN, DNS & DomainsHeadquarters: CZ

Qrator Labs: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Qrator Labs provides DDoS protection and network services for websites and online services. Its products include a DDoS filtering service that routes traffic through scrubbing centres over BGP anycast, a secondary DNS service, a web application firewall, bot protection and BGP anomaly monitoring. Protection can be connected through DNS or BGP, and the service is delivered as a hosted, vendor-operated network rather than as software to install. The company lists offices in Prague, Dubai, Larnaca and Limassol.

The Czech company Qrator Labs CZ s.r.o. is incorporated in the Czech Republic, an EU member state, with its head office in Prague. Its website does not name a parent company or shareholders. In 2024 the group's Russian unit was renamed Curator, and the regional units are formally separate legal entities. The website does not state where scrubbing centres or customer data are located, or describe a GDPR data processing agreement, so European customers should check these terms before contracting.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 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-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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	CZ (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	CDN, DNS & Domains
Type	Product
Website	qrator.net ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Qrator Labs

The European alternatives to Qrator Labs 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 Qrator Labs

Qrator Labs is headquartered in CZ 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 Qrator Labs scores best on data residency.

Qrator Labs is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Qrator Labs 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 Qrator Labs?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Qrator Labs include Bunny.net, ClouDNS and deSEC. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Qrator Labs?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Qrator Labs include deSEC, Knot DNS and Knot Resolver. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Qrator Labs GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Qrator Labs is headquartered in CZ (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Qrator Labs 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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