Non-EU vendorDevOpsHeadquarters: RS

Semaphore CI: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Semaphore is a CI/CD platform for development teams. Pipelines are described in YAML and can run in parallel, with support for containers, Kubernetes and monorepos. The platform also offers test reports, tools to flag slow steps and flaky tests, an MCP server and self-hosted agents. It is available as a cloud service, as a hybrid setup with your own runners, as an open-source edition (Community Edition under Apache 2.0) or as a commercial Enterprise Edition. You can install the Community Edition on a single Ubuntu machine or on Kubernetes.

Semaphore Technologies doo is based in Novi Sad, Serbia, and therefore outside the EU. The company was founded in 2011 by Darko Fabijan and Marko Anastasov and works fully remotely. Its privacy policy refers to Serbian data protection law and to standard contractual clauses for transfers. The sources consulted do not say where the cloud service hosts data. Organisations that want full control can self-host the Community Edition. According to the vendor, the cloud service is SOC 2 Type II certified.

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Sovereignty score

79 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (RS)
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-675
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	RS (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	No — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	DevOps
Type	Product
Website	semaphoreci.com ↗

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 Semaphore CI

The European alternatives to Semaphore CI 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 Semaphore CI

Semaphore CI is headquartered in RS, 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Semaphore CI scores best on data residency.

Semaphore CI 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 Semaphore CI 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 Semaphore CI?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Semaphore CI include Eclipse Che, Mergify and OVHcloud Managed Private Registry. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Semaphore CI?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Semaphore CI include Eclipse Che, Tekton, Woodpecker CI and PostgreSQL (self-host). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Semaphore CI GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Semaphore CI is headquartered in RS (OTHER) and hosts data in EU. 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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