Non-EU vendorOffice & ProductivityHeadquarters: US

Superhuman Docs: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Superhuman Docs, formerly Coda, is a collaborative workspace that combines the feel of a document with the functions of an app. Teams build tables, trackers, team hubs and custom applications with formulas, buttons and automations, and connect them to many other tools. Coda AI offers a chat assistant, an assistant that generates text and tables, and AI columns. The service is delivered as a hosted web service and is proprietary software, not open source.

Superhuman Docs belongs to Superhuman, the US company formerly called Grammarly, which acquired Coda in late 2024. The sub-processor list names Coda Project, LLC (USA) as a subsidiary; third-party sub-processors, including AWS for hosting and OpenAI and Anthropic for AI, are US companies. No EU data region is mentioned there. A European organisation that keeps knowledge and processes in Superhuman Docs is therefore subject to US jurisdiction and should review the processing terms and sub-processors.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Office & Productivity
Type	Product
Website	coda.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Superhuman Docs

The European alternatives to Superhuman Docs 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 Superhuman Docs

Superhuman Docs 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.

Superhuman Docs hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Superhuman Docs 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 Superhuman Docs 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 Superhuman Docs?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Superhuman Docs include LibreOffice, CryptPad and Nextcloud Office. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Superhuman Docs?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Superhuman Docs include LibreOffice, CryptPad, Nextcloud Office, openDesk and La Suite numérique Docs. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Superhuman Docs GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Superhuman Docs is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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