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SurveyMonkey: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SurveyMonkey is an online platform for surveys and forms, aimed at business teams such as marketing, customer experience, HR and IT. Users build surveys from templates and can use AI to find patterns and speed up analysis. It offers integrations, a research panel and admin and security features, plus an Enterprise tier. Use cases include employee feedback, customer satisfaction, event feedback, registration forms, market research and Net Promoter Score. Related products include GetFeedback, Wufoo and Apply. The service is delivered online.

SurveyMonkey is headquartered in San Mateo, California. Since 2023 the company, then called Momentive, has been privately held after an acquisition by a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group, and it later reverted to the SurveyMonkey name. According to its privacy notice, data may be processed in the United States and in countries where its affiliates are located. SurveyMonkey Europe UC in Dublin handles privacy matters for EU users. The service is not open source. A European organisation should establish the hosting location itself, as the sources name no fixed EU location.

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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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
Hosting signalAMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryForms & Surveys
TypeProduct
Websitesurveymonkey.com ↗

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 SurveyMonkey

The European alternatives to SurveyMonkey 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 SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey 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.

SurveyMonkey 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.

SurveyMonkey 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 SurveyMonkey 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 SurveyMonkey?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SurveyMonkey include Tally, LamaPoll and Survio. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SurveyMonkey?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to SurveyMonkey include Formbricks, LimeSurvey (self-host), CryptPad Forms, Nextcloud Forms and Framaforms. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

SurveyMonkey is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. 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 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 Forms & Surveys

Forms & Surveys: Online forms, surveys and feedback tools. 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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