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SoSci Survey: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SoSci Survey is an online survey tool for designing questionnaires, running them in the browser and analysing the results. It is developed and operated by SoSci Survey GmbH in Munich, Germany, and offered as a cloud service. Researchers can also licence the software for installation on their own web server, which gives them direct control over where responses are stored.

The company is German and its survey server and computer centre are located in Munich, so the cloud service stays within German and EU jurisdiction. The vendor describes its service as compliant with the GDPR and reports daily encrypted backups. No parent company outside the EU is named on its website. Because the software can run on an organisation's own server, a European organisation can keep survey data under its own control. The site does not describe a formal data processing agreement in detail, so the contract terms should be checked before use.

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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 October 10, 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
Category
Forms & Surveys
Type
Product
Website
soscisurvey.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to SoSci Survey

The European alternatives to SoSci Survey come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 SoSci Survey

SoSci Survey 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 SoSci Survey scores best on data residency.

SoSci Survey 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 SoSci Survey 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 SoSci Survey?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SoSci Survey include 123FormBuilder, AidaForm and Appinio. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SoSci Survey?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to SoSci Survey include ARSnova and CryptPad Forms. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is SoSci Survey GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

SoSci Survey is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes SoSci Survey an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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