Non-EU vendorAI CodingHeadquarters: IN

Rocket.new: sovereignty score and 6 European alternatives

Rocket is a platform that turns natural-language prompts into web applications, mobile apps, landing pages and internal tools. It brings market research, building and post-launch monitoring together in one workspace, with staging and production environments and one-click deployment. The product is called Rocket and is offered as a hosted web service. The company describes its approach as vibe solutioning, linking research on what to build with the building itself.

The Rocket 1.0 release in April 2026 carried a press-release dateline from Palo Alto, California and Surat, India. The company states that its headquarters is in Surat, with operations in Palo Alto. Its website names a copyright holder, Rocket USA Inc., and the relationship between that entity and the Indian company is not described. The site says it does not access private company data and claims SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and CCPA compliance. Where customer data is hosted is not stated. Organisations should ask for a data processing agreement and hosting details before using it with business data.

See the 6 European alternatives ↓Assess your stack with Rocket.new pre-selected

Mastodon LinkedIn Bluesky X Email

Sovereignty score

32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (IN)
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
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-630
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	IN (OTHER)	Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	No — no adequacy decision	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	OTHER	Verified by hand
Open-source	No	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Category	AI Coding
Type	Product
Website	rocket.new ↗

How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Rocket.new

The European alternatives to Rocket.new 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

6 European AI Coding vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

Is Rocket.new one of many dependencies?

Score your whole stack in about three minutes. Free, no account needed.

Assess your stack →View a sample report (opens in a new tab)

Why digital sovereignty matters with Rocket.new

Rocket.new is headquartered in IN, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

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

Rocket.new 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 Rocket.new 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 Rocket.new?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Rocket.new include JetBrains AI Assistant, JetBrains Junie and Lurus Code. On this page you can compare 6 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Rocket.new?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Rocket.new include Mistral Code, Mistral Vibe CLI and SHAI (OVHcloud). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Rocket.new GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Rocket.new is headquartered in IN (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. 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

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

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

No public compliance evidence has been recorded for this vendor yet. Do you know its DPA or subprocessor list? Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Digital sovereignty in AI Coding

AI Coding: AI-powered code assistants — code completion, terminal agents, AI-native IDEs. 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.

Also in this category

See all →

Open in the alternatives dashboard Missing a vendor? Submit it Are you this vendor? You can also become a sponsor on the AI Coding page — with no effect on your score