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Self-hosted / open sourceE-commerceHeadquarters: PL

Sylius: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Sylius is an open-source, headless e-commerce platform and framework written in PHP, built on Symfony and API Platform. It is aimed at development teams at mid-market and enterprise brands that want to build a custom online shop for B2C or B2B. A REST API lets you use any frontend, including headless and PWA setups. Beyond the free core there are commercial product lines such as Sylius Plus, Elesto for B2B and Dafre for marketplaces. Sylius is not consumed as a service but installed and operated by you, and according to the project it runs on a plain VPS, in Docker or on Kubernetes.

Sylius is headquartered in Poznań, Poland. The software is released under the MIT licence and the source code is on GitHub. Because you host the framework yourself, you decide in which country and with which provider your data is stored, and there is no mandatory vendor cloud. A European organisation can therefore run it entirely within the EU, and the permissive licence limits dependence on a single supplier.

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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
Headquarters
PL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
E-commerce
Type
Product
Website
sylius.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 Sylius

The European alternatives to Sylius 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 Sylius

Sylius is headquartered in PL 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 Sylius scores best on data residency.

Sylius 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 Sylius 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 Sylius?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Sylius include ablefy, SCAYLE and Actindo. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Sylius?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Sylius include Akeneo. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Sylius is headquartered in PL (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Sylius 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

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Digital sovereignty in E-commerce

E-commerce: Online sales, webshops, e-commerce platforms and product information management. 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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