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Upsales: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Upsales is a Swedish sales platform for sales teams. It covers customer and contact management, pipeline tracking, follow-up activities and AI-supported suggestions for deals, and is offered as a web-based service. The operating company, Upsales Nordic AB, is based in Stockholm at Kungsgatan 49. The product is aimed at sales teams that want to identify and follow up on new business opportunities.

As a Swedish company, Upsales Nordic AB is subject to the GDPR and EU law. Its privacy policy states that personal data is mainly processed within the EU and EEA, and that customer data is processed under a data processing agreement with the customer. Some marketing and analytics tools, including Google, Meta, LinkedIn and Cookiebot, may transfer data to the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses. The hosting provider for customer data is not named, so organisations should confirm the hosting location before signing up.

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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
HeadquartersSE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCRM
TypeProduct
Websiteupsales.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Upsales

The European alternatives to Upsales 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 Upsales

Upsales is headquartered in SE 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 Upsales scores best on data residency.

Upsales 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 Upsales 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 Upsales?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Upsales include ADITO, Axelor CRM and Axonaut. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Upsales?

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

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

Upsales is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Upsales an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in CRM

CRM: Customer relationship management — sales pipelines, contact management. 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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