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Textmetrics: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Textmetrics is a content-quality platform that checks text against your own rules, guidelines and compliance requirements. Textmetrics Create is an editor that gives real-time suggestions on readability, inclusive language, sentiment and SEO/GEO; Textmetrics Control is a dashboard showing the quality of content. It also checks content against WCAG 2.1 and the European Accessibility Act. An AI assistant can rephrase, simplify, shorten or change the tone of text. It is available as a web application and as add-ins for Word and Outlook, and targets sectors such as government, recruitment, marketing and communications, and editorial teams.

Textmetrics is a Dutch company. It states that data is hosted on secure servers in data centres in the EU and that it is ISO 27001 certified. The software is not open source and no self-hosting option is known. For a European organisation, this means that text is processed under Dutch and European rules; the company does not name the hosting provider or its location.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-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-655
    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 September 20, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryWriting Assistance & Grammar
TypeProduct
Websitetextmetrics.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 Textmetrics

The European alternatives to Textmetrics 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 Textmetrics

Textmetrics is headquartered in NL 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 Textmetrics scores best on data residency.

Textmetrics 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 Textmetrics 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 Textmetrics?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Textmetrics include CKEditor, Congree and DeepL Write. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Textmetrics?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Textmetrics include CKEditor, Grammalecte, Kate and LanguageTool. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Textmetrics is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Textmetrics 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 September 20, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Writing Assistance & Grammar

Writing Assistance & Grammar: Grammar checking, spell checking, style advice and AI writing assistants. 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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