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EU sovereignSMS APIsHeadquarters: DE

seven: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

seven is a German provider of messaging and communication APIs. Its offering covers sending and receiving SMS, an SMS gateway (API, email-to-SMS and SMPP), voice messages with text-to-speech, RCS and SIM hosting. It also provides number validation services such as HLR, CNAM and MNP lookups. Users can work through a web application, the API or a command-line tool, and integrations exist for tools such as Zapier, Slack, HubSpot, WooCommerce and Node-RED. Use cases highlighted by the company include appointment reminders, alerting and two-factor authentication.

seven describes itself as "Made in Germany", with the footer pointing to Kiel. According to the company's help centre, its servers are located exclusively in Germany and data is stored in a German data centre. The company states that it holds an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate covering development and operation of the platform. The website names no foreign parent company, and the software is not open source. For a European organisation this means a service hosted within the EU; the pages consulted do not name the data centre operator.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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 September 8, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category
SMS APIs
Type
Product
Website
seven.io ↗

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 seven

The European alternatives to seven 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 seven

seven is headquartered in DE 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 seven scores best on data residency.

seven 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 seven 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 seven?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to seven include 46elks, Agile Telecom and AnyMessage. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to seven?

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

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

seven is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes seven 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 September 8, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice when it was added on September 8, 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in SMS APIs

SMS APIs: API services for sending SMS messages to customers. 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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