Non-EU vendorForms & SurveysHeadquarters: US

QuestionPro: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

QuestionPro is a survey and experience-management platform for collecting customer, employee and market research feedback. It is delivered as a cloud service and offers survey design and reporting tools. The software is published by QuestionPro, Inc., which gives a mailing address in Beaverton, Oregon, United States. The company's website names Seattle as its founding city.

For a European organisation the main consideration is jurisdiction. QuestionPro, Inc. is a US company, so US law such as the CLOUD Act can apply to data it controls. Its privacy policy states that the company participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which supports transfers of personal data from the EU. The website refers to eight regional data centres without naming their locations, and the policy does not name them either. Organisations that need EU-only storage should obtain a written hosting commitment from the vendor before choosing the product.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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 10, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Forms & Surveys
Type	Product
Website	questionpro.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to QuestionPro

The European alternatives to QuestionPro 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 QuestionPro

QuestionPro is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

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

QuestionPro 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 QuestionPro 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 QuestionPro?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to QuestionPro include 123FormBuilder, AidaForm and Askia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to QuestionPro?

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

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

QuestionPro is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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