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Non-EU vendorFinOps & Cloud Cost ManagementHeadquarters: US

Sedai: sovereignty score and 6 European alternatives

Sedai is a cloud optimisation platform that uses reinforcement learning to tune cloud resources for cost, performance and availability. It rightsizes workloads, tunes scaling and optimises nodes and clusters across containers, virtual machines, serverless, storage and data workloads,. Teams can run it in Copilot mode, where each change needs approval, or in Autopilot mode, where it acts without approval. Setup needs cloud IAM access and a monitoring source; Kubernetes clusters connect through Sedai's Smart Agent. The vendor reports a SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Sedai, Inc. is a US company with an address in Pleasanton, California. Its privacy policy states that the services are hosted in the United States and that data from other regions is transferred there for storage and processing. No EU hosting option is documented. The platform is proprietary. For a European organisation this means that monitoring and configuration data from its cloud environments is processed by a US provider under US law, including the CLOUD Act, and that autonomous mode lets the tool change infrastructure on its own.

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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 9, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryFinOps & Cloud Cost Management
TypeProduct
Websitesedai.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Sedai

The European alternatives to Sedai come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Sedai

Sedai 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.

Sedai 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.

Sedai 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 Sedai 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 Sedai?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Sedai include Cloudchipr, CloudCockpit and Costory. On this page you can compare 6 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Sedai?

Our list of EU alternatives to Sedai is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

Sedai 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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Digital sovereignty in FinOps & Cloud Cost Management

FinOps & Cloud Cost Management: Cloud cost visibility, optimisation and chargeback across multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments. 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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