EU Sovereignty Score
Self-hosted / open sourceProject ManagementHeadquarters: FI

WeKan: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

WeKan is an open-source Kanban application. You organise work in boards, lists and cards with descriptions, due dates, labels, comments, attachments and checklists. Views include swimlanes, tables, calendar, Gantt and Scrum, along with automation rules and import from tools such as Trello and Jira. Access can be set per board or per user. WeKan can be self-hosted, for example with Docker, Snap or Kubernetes. A SaaS offering and paid commercial support are also available.

WeKan is released under the MIT licence. According to his GitLab profile, Lauri Ojansivu (xet7) of Finland is the maintainer and CEO of WeKan, and the WeKan name is a registered trademark in Finland. Self-hosting gives you full control over where the data resides and which jurisdiction applies. For the SaaS offering, the hosting location is not stated on the project site, so confirm it before use.

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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
Headquarters
FI (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Project Management
Type
Product
Website
wekan.github.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 WeKan

The European alternatives to WeKan 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

34 European Project Management vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with WeKan

WeKan 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 WeKan scores best on data residency.

WeKan 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 WeKan 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 WeKan?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to WeKan include Arinto, awork and Bitrix24. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to WeKan?

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

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

WeKan is headquartered in FI (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes WeKan 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

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".

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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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