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Valohai: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Valohai is an MLOps platform for data science teams. It automates machine-learning pipelines, tracks experiments, versions datasets and records which code, data and parameters produced which model, so that results stay reproducible. Since extending to language models, the vendor also offers workflows for comparing models and for regression testing. Valohai orchestrates compute in third-party clouds or on your own servers and is operated through a web application.

Valohai Oy is based in Turku, Finland. According to the vendor, data, workloads and models stay secured and private in your own cloud or on-premises environment; the application itself runs on Amazon Web Services, with the region not stated. The software is proprietary and not open source. No data processing agreement was found on the pages reviewed. For a European organisation looking for an alternative to US MLOps platforms such as Domino Data Lab, this is an EU-based vendor that supports running on your own infrastructure. Check where the management layer is hosted.

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 14, 2026
Headquarters
FI (EU)Verified by hand
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Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Valohai

The European alternatives to Valohai come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 Valohai

Valohai is headquartered in FI 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 Valohai scores best on data residency.

Valohai 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 Valohai 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 Valohai?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Valohai include Ackee, Adjust and Alceris. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Valohai?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Valohai include Ackee, Aptabase and Counter. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Valohai is headquartered in FI (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Valohai 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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