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REDAXO: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

REDAXO is an open-source content management system written in PHP and built on a MySQL database. It structures a website through categories, content blocks, a media pool and add-ons that extend its functions. Editors and developers use it to build and maintain websites. It is delivered as software to be installed on the user's own web server rather than as a hosted service, and its source code is published on GitHub under the MIT licence.

The project is developed by the FriendsOfREDAXO community. According to the website footer, the operator is Yakamara Media GmbH & Co. KG in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Because the software runs on infrastructure the organisation chooses, that choice determines where content is stored, and the website does not mention a vendor-operated cloud for customer data. For a European organisation, the German operator, the MIT licence and the option to self-host allow the full stack to stay under its own control.

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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 11, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
CMS
Type
Product
Website
redaxo.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to REDAXO

The European alternatives to REDAXO 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 REDAXO

REDAXO 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 REDAXO scores best on data residency.

REDAXO 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 REDAXO 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 REDAXO?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to REDAXO include Ametys, Bolt CMS and caisy. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to REDAXO?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to REDAXO include Ametys, Bolt CMS, Cockpit CMS, Contao and django CMS. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

REDAXO is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes REDAXO 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 October 11, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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Digital sovereignty in CMS

CMS: Content management systems — websites, headless CMS, digital experience platforms. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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