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Self-hosted / open sourceTelephony & VoIPHeadquarters: FR

Wazo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Wazo Platform is an open-source, programmable telecommunications platform for businesses. It provides a PBX with VoIP, instant messaging and video conferencing, built on Asterisk and complemented by the project's own components. The architecture is made of microservices with REST APIs for configuration, authentication, calls and directory lookups, among others, and plugins handle phone provisioning. It is used by businesses, service providers, operators and integrators that want to offer unified communications or programmable communications. It is a fork of XiVO; the first release appeared in December 2016.

Most of its distinctive components, and the platform as a whole, are released under the GPLv3. You can therefore host and modify Wazo yourself, including inside the EU, without depending on a single vendor. The company behind Wazo was founded in Quebec and has an office in Paris; commercial hosting and support are offered through wazo.io. For hosted variants, the data location should be fixed contractually.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 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-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalAMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryTelephony & VoIP
TypeProduct
Websitewazo.io ↗

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 Wazo

The European alternatives to Wazo 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 Wazo

Wazo is headquartered in FR 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 Wazo scores best on data residency.

Wazo is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Wazo 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 Wazo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Wazo include A1 Telekom Austria, Adversus and Auerswald. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Wazo?

Our list of EU alternatives to Wazo is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

Wazo is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Wazo 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

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