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Self-hosted / open sourceProcess Mining & RPAHeadquarters: US

Stagehand: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Stagehand is a software development kit for building browser agents, AI programs that operate web pages. It offers Playwright-style APIs alongside natural-language actions such as act, observe and extract. According to its makers it is built for agents rather than for testing. It is installed as a package, including for TypeScript, Python and Go, and is maintained by Browserbase.

Browserbase, Inc. is a US company in San Francisco. Stagehand itself is open source under the MIT licence and runs in your own environment, so you control the code. The associated Browserbase cloud for running browser sessions is a separate, optional service; according to its documentation sessions can be started in regions in the US, Singapore and the EU (Frankfurt), with us-west-2 as the default. That documentation does not say where session data is stored. Stagehand also sends instructions to the language model you choose, so that choice helps determine where data is processed.

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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 (US, EU)
  • 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 10, 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 hostingUS, EUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryProcess Mining & RPA
TypeProduct
Websitestagehand.dev ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Stagehand

The European alternatives to Stagehand 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 Stagehand

Stagehand 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.

Stagehand hosts data in US, EU. 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.

Stagehand 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 Stagehand 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 Stagehand?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Stagehand include Ui.Vision RPA, Robot Framework and n8n. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Stagehand?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Stagehand include Ui.Vision RPA, Robot Framework and bupaR. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Stagehand is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. 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 10, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Process Mining & RPA

Process Mining & RPA: Process analysis on system logs, process improvement and robotic process automation of administrative tasks. 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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