EU sovereignCollaborationHeadquarters: NO

Whereby: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Whereby is a video meeting service built on WebRTC, aimed at individuals, teams and product builders. Whereby Meetings offers instant calls and permanent meeting links with chat, file sharing, screen sharing, a virtual whiteboard, transcription and custom branding. Whereby Embedded provides APIs and SDKs that let developers add video calls to their own applications. The vendor names telehealth and eLearning as example use cases.

The service is provided by Whereby AS, a company based in Måløy, Norway, which places it inside the EEA but outside the EU. Its privacy policy refers to an ultimate holding company without naming it. Whereby relies mainly on Amazon Web Services; according to the vendor, account data is stored in Ireland. Usage data is hosted in Ireland and the United States, with Standard Contractual Clauses applying to transfers to the US. According to the privacy policy, audio and video streams are not stored, except transiently for transmission. European organisations should check the data processing agreement and the hosting regions.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EEA: the GDPR applies directly
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
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-645
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	NO (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Collaboration
Type	Product
Website	whereby.com ↗

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 Whereby

The European alternatives to Whereby 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 Whereby

Whereby is headquartered in NO, which falls under the GDPR through the European Economic Area. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Whereby hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Whereby 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 Whereby 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 Whereby?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Whereby include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad and Nextcloud Deck. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Whereby?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Whereby include BigBlueButton (self-host), CryptPad, Nextcloud Deck, FluffyChat and HedgeDoc. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Whereby is headquartered in NO (EFTA) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Whereby 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 October 9, 2026.

Sources

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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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Collaboration: Team communication, file sharing, video conferencing, document editing. 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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