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SourceHut: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SourceHut (sr.ht) is a suite of open-source software development tools. It offers Git and Mercurial repository hosting, CI builds on various Linux distributions and BSDs, mailing lists with patch review, ticket tracking, hosted IRC chat, git-driven wikis, paste and static site hosting, and a command-line tool, hut, for managing services and exporting data. Its features work without JavaScript, and it states that it has no tracking, advertising or AI features. It describes itself as being in public alpha. SourceHut is a hosted service at sr.ht, and its documentation also covers deploying the software yourself.

SourceHut gives a registered business address in Hoorn, the Netherlands. According to its June 2024 status update, its infrastructure is in a leased datacenter in Amsterdam on SourceHut-owned hardware, with build capacity supplemented by leased OVH capacity in an unstated location. The source code is free software under the AGPL, BSD and other licences. A European organisation therefore deals with a Dutch operator with its main servers in the Netherlands, and can self-host if it needs full control.

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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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalHIGH5-NL - High5! B.V., NL (NL)Technically measured
CategoryDevOps
TypeProduct
Websitesourcehut.org ↗

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 SourceHut

The European alternatives to SourceHut 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 SourceHut

SourceHut is headquartered in NL 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 SourceHut scores best on data residency.

SourceHut 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 SourceHut 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 SourceHut?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SourceHut include Buddy, CFEngine and Checkmk. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SourceHut?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to SourceHut include CFEngine, Checkmk, Codeberg and Eclipse Che. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

SourceHut is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes SourceHut 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in DevOps

DevOps: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, container registries. 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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