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WunderGraph Cosmo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

WunderGraph Cosmo is an open-source platform for GraphQL Federation. A router provides one GraphQL endpoint for several independently developed backend services, known as subgraphs. Cosmo Studio supplies the schema registry, schema checks, analytics and distributed tracing. The vendor positions the platform for teams that grow from a first subgraph to a larger setup. Cosmo is available as self-hosted open-source software or as a managed service with a hosted control plane and self-hosted routers.

The vendor's terms of use state that the owner of the website is based in Florida, United States, and that the terms are governed by Delaware law, which places the vendor within US legal jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. The core code is licensed under Apache 2.0 and can run on the organisation's own infrastructure, so it keeps control of its data flows. The privacy policy does not mention the GDPR or a data processing agreement, and the hosting location of the managed service is not stated. European organisations that self-host therefore keep more control over where their data resides.

Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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-665
    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 October 12, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to WunderGraph Cosmo

The European alternatives to WunderGraph Cosmo come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 WunderGraph Cosmo

WunderGraph Cosmo is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

WunderGraph Cosmo hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

WunderGraph Cosmo 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 WunderGraph Cosmo 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 WunderGraph Cosmo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to WunderGraph Cosmo include Alumio, Apideck and Axway. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to WunderGraph Cosmo?

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

Is WunderGraph Cosmo GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

WunderGraph Cosmo is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in API Management

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