Non-EU vendorProject ManagementHeadquarters: US

Trello: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Trello is a visual work management tool built on boards, lists and cards. Individuals, small teams and larger organisations use it to capture to-dos from email and Slack, plan work with a calendar-synced planner, automate repetitive steps and connect other tools through Power-Ups and integrations. An MCP server links it to AI tools. It is a cloud service with web, desktop and mobile apps, and it is part of Atlassian.

Trello is owned by Atlassian, whose parent company, Atlassian Corporation, has been a US-domiciled holding company since 2022. According to Atlassian's GDPR documentation for Trello, data is stored in Amazon Web Services data centres in the US, EU data residency is not offered, and some service features require data to be transferred to the US. For transfers from the EU, Atlassian refers to the standard contractual clauses in its data processing addendum. Trello is proprietary software. European organisations that need data to stay in the EU should take this into account.

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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

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked September 19, 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	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	trello.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 Trello

The European alternatives to Trello 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 Trello

Trello 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.

Trello 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.

Trello 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 Trello 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 Trello?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Trello include awork, factro and MeisterTask. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Trello?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Trello include OpenProject, Taiga, Tuleap and WeKan. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Trello is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. 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

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 19, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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): atlassian.com/legal/data-processing-addendum
Security page / trust center: atlassian.com/trust
EU hosting documented: atlassian.com/trust

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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