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Salome-Meca: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Salome-Meca is an open-source simulation environment for mechanical and thermal analysis. It combines the SALOME platform, an environment for industrial physics simulation covering CAD modelling, meshing, post-processing and visualisation, with the code_aster finite element solver for mechanics, thermal analysis and dynamics. Engineers and researchers use it to analyse structures and components from geometry through to results. You download and install it yourself; the code_aster source code is hosted on GitLab and downloads are available through code-aster.org.

SALOME is developed by the French organisations EDF and CEA and is licensed under LGPL-2.1 or later; code_aster is open source and carries an EDF copyright notice. Because you run the software on your own systems, your models and results stay with you and no provider hosts your data. That suits organisations that want control over their simulation environment and independence from a commercial vendor, and the open source code avoids vendor lock-in.

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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
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
AS12876 - Scaleway SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
Category
CAD & Engineering
Type
Product
Website
code-aster.org ↗

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 Salome-Meca

The European alternatives to Salome-Meca 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 Salome-Meca

Salome-Meca is headquartered in FR 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 Salome-Meca scores best on data residency.

Salome-Meca 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 Salome-Meca 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 Salome-Meca?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Salome-Meca include ACCA software, ALLPLAN and AUCOTEC Engineering Base. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Salome-Meca?

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

Is Salome-Meca GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Salome-Meca is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Salome-Meca 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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Digital sovereignty in CAD & Engineering

CAD & Engineering: Computer-aided design, 3D modelling and engineering simulation software. 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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