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ThingSpeak: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

ThingSpeak is a cloud service for collecting, storing and analysing live sensor data. Devices send readings through REST or MQTT APIs; the service stores them in private channels, can share selected data publicly and offers charts and dashboards. Users can run analysis with MATLAB, send alerts and schedule events. The service works with common hardware such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi and ESP32 boards and with LoRaWAN networks. It is offered as a hosted SaaS service.

ThingSpeak is operated by The MathWorks, Inc., a privately held US company headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts. Because the operator is based in the United States, US law may apply to the service regardless of where the servers are located. The vendor page does not state a storage region for ThingSpeak data and does not describe the service as open source; the Arduino communication library is published on GitHub. European organisations that need data sovereignty should confirm the storage location in writing, or consider an EU-hosted or self-managed IoT platform for sensitive sensor data.

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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

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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
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
IoT & Embedded
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to ThingSpeak

The European alternatives to ThingSpeak 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 ThingSpeak

ThingSpeak 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.

ThingSpeak 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.

ThingSpeak 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to ThingSpeak?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to ThingSpeak 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 ThingSpeak?

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

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

ThingSpeak 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

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