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TeamViewer: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

TeamViewer provides software for remote connectivity. Its products cover remote access to and control of desktop and mobile devices, device and asset management, endpoint monitoring and automation of IT support tasks. TeamViewer Tensor is aimed at enterprises, and further offerings cover remote access to operational technology on the shop floor and augmented-reality guidance for frontline workers. The software is delivered as clients, a web app and a management console, with integrations into tools such as ServiceNow, Jira and Microsoft Teams.

TeamViewer SE is headquartered in Göppingen, Germany, and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with all shares in free float. According to TeamViewer's trust centre, its sub-processors are located within the EEA, except for additional features ordered or activated separately. The software is not open source. For a European organisation this means a German provider under EU law, while it is worth checking which optional features involve processing outside the EEA.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, APAC)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-645
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

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, APACVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	4 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Remote Desktop & Support
Type	Product
Website	teamviewer.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 TeamViewer

The European alternatives to TeamViewer 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 TeamViewer

TeamViewer is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

TeamViewer hosts data in EU, US, APAC. 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.

TeamViewer 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 TeamViewer 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 TeamViewer?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to TeamViewer include AnyDesk, DWService and FastViewer. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to TeamViewer?

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

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

TeamViewer is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU, US, APAC. That makes TeamViewer 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".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): teamviewer.com/legal
Subprocessor list: teamviewer.com/legal
Security page / trust center: teamviewer.com/en-us/security/
EU hosting documented: teamviewer.com/legal

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

CSA STARConfirmed in registryISO/IEC 27001Vendor-statedSOC 2Vendor-statedTISAXVendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Remote Desktop & Support

Remote Desktop & Support: Remote access, remote support and screen sharing. 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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