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Vanillaplan: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Vanillaplan is a browser-based software-as-a-service for resource and capacity planning, aimed at construction and similar project businesses. Users assign staff, vehicles and inventory to projects with drag and drop, in project or resource views, with dynamic, team and layered deployment plans. A mobile app keeps employees informed, and AI-supported plans are offered. The related Vanillaplan Time module records working time and services, taking over planned assignments for confirmation, and an integration platform connects Vanillaplan to other systems.

Vanillaplan AG is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and develops the software there. Switzerland is not in the EU but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. According to the vendor, customer data is hosted in a data centre in Zürich and does not leave Switzerland. The service is delivered as public cloud only; no self-hosted option is described. The vendor's legal notice does not name a parent company, and no data processing commitment is published on the pages reviewed, so ask for a processing agreement before use.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • 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
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Project Management
Type
Product
Website
vanillaplan.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Vanillaplan

The European alternatives to Vanillaplan come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 Vanillaplan

Vanillaplan is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Vanillaplan hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

Vanillaplan 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 Vanillaplan 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 Vanillaplan?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Vanillaplan include Aikku PROJECTS (Camino), Arinto and awork. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Vanillaplan?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Vanillaplan include Aikku PROJECTS (Camino). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Vanillaplan is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Vanillaplan 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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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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