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Servo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Servo is a web browser engine written in Rust, with support for WebGL and WebGPU. It is aimed at desktop, mobile and embedded use and has a WebView API that lets other applications embed web content. Supported platforms are Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and OpenHarmony. Servo is not a finished browser but a building block: organisations include the engine in their own software and run it on their own infrastructure or devices.

Servo is a project of Linux Foundation Europe. Stewardship moved from Mozilla Research to the Linux Foundation in 2020 and to Linux Foundation Europe in 2023, which is based in Brussels. The project is governed openly by a Technical Steering Committee, and according to the announcement Igalia, a member of LF Europe, leads recent development. The source code is public under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Because the engine runs locally and needs no cloud service from the vendor, data processing stays under the control of the organisation deploying the software.

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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 10, 2026
HeadquartersBE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryBrowser
TypeProduct
Websiteservo.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Servo

The European alternatives to Servo 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 Servo

Servo is headquartered in BE 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 Servo scores best on data residency.

Servo 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 Servo 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 Servo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Servo include Ecosia Browser, Falkon and Iridium Browser. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Servo?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Servo include Falkon, Iridium Browser, Konqueror, LibreWolf, Midori, Mullvad Browser and Nyxt. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Servo is headquartered in BE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Servo 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 10, 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".

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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.

Checked on October 10, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in Browser

Browser: Web browser — browsing, privacy, extensions, sync. 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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