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Self-hosted / open sourceITSMHeadquarters: US

Snipe-IT: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Snipe-IT is an open-source web application for IT asset and licence management, which the developer presents as a replacement for tracking assets in spreadsheets. It is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence and can be installed on the organisation's own servers. The developer also offers a hosted version with support.

Grokability, Inc. is based in San Diego, California, in the United States, so the company is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. The hosted service runs on AWS, and the company states that data stays in the region the customer selects at sign-up; the selectable regions include Ireland and Frankfurt in the EU, as well as several regions outside the EU and the EEA. For a European organisation, self-hosting keeps the data on infrastructure it controls. The privacy page does not contain a GDPR or data processing agreement statement, so this should be checked before the hosted service is used.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
  • 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 11, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryITSM
TypeProduct
Websitesnipeitapp.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Snipe-IT

The European alternatives to Snipe-IT 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 Snipe-IT

Snipe-IT 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.

Snipe-IT hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Snipe-IT 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 Snipe-IT 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 Snipe-IT?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Snipe-IT include Ardoq, Axxerion (Spacewell Workplace) and ADOIT. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Snipe-IT?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Snipe-IT include CMDBuild and Combodo iTop. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Snipe-IT GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Snipe-IT is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 11, 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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Digital sovereignty in ITSM

ITSM: IT Service Management — ticketing, CMDB, asset management. 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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