Non-EU vendorIoT & EmbeddedHeadquarters: US

TagoIO: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

TagoIO is an IoT platform that connects devices, stores their readings and lets organisations build dashboards and analysis scripts on that data. A catalogue of connectors supports networks such as LoRaWAN, Sigfox, MQTT and HTTP and turns raw messages into named, timestamped readings. Analysis scripts run in Deno, Node.js or Python. The platform is offered as a shared cloud, as a dedicated instance or as TagoCore for deployment at the network edge.

TagoIO Inc. is a US company with an imprint address in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the website does not name an ultimate owner. For shared accounts the site gives no fixed storage region, but it lists live data centres in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific; a dedicated instance is placed in the region named in the contract. European organisations should therefore agree the hosting region in writing. Because the company is headquartered in the United States, the US CLOUD Act may apply regardless of where the servers are located. The site refers to a data processing agreement; it does not describe the platform as open source.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU, OTHER)
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 11, 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	US, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	IoT & Embedded
Type	Product
Website	tago.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to TagoIO

The European alternatives to TagoIO 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 TagoIO

TagoIO 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.

TagoIO hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. 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.

TagoIO 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 TagoIO 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 TagoIO?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to TagoIO include 1NCE, Actility ThingPark and akenza. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to TagoIO?

Our list of EU alternatives to TagoIO is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

TagoIO is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. 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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