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Ticketea: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Ticketea is a Spanish online ticketing and event-management platform. Event organisers use it to sell tickets for concerts, festivals and other events and to manage their events, while visitors find and buy tickets on the website. The platform is offered as an online service; the website mentions no self-hostable or open-source version.

The operating company is a Spanish company. Eventbrite, a ticketing company headquartered in San Francisco, acquired Ticketea in April 2018. In March 2026 Bending Spoons, headquartered in Milan, completed its acquisition of Eventbrite. The ultimate owner is therefore based in Italy, while the Eventbrite group also includes US entities. The location where visitor and ticket data is stored is not stated on the public pages, and it should be verified before personal data is processed.

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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 October 10, 2026
HeadquartersES (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyITVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryE-commerce
TypeProduct
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Ticketea

The European alternatives to Ticketea 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 Ticketea

Ticketea is headquartered in ES and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in IT, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Ticketea scores best on data residency.

Ticketea 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 Ticketea 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 Ticketea?

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

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

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

Ticketea is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Ticketea 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 October 10, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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