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Self-hosted / open sourceTelephony & VoIPHeadquarters: RO

Yate: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Yate (Yet Another Telephony Engine) is an open-source telephony engine that can be used as an extensible IP PBX. It supports SIP and other telephony protocols and can act as a VoIP server or client, a conference server, an interactive voice response (IVR) engine or a gateway between VoIP and the public telephone network. Functions can be extended with scripts in languages such as Perl, Python and PHP. The software is intended for organisations and operators that want to run their own telephony infrastructure, and it is distributed as software rather than as a hosted service.

The software is developed by NullTeam, a Romanian company, so the developer is established in the European Union. Yate is released under the GNU General Public License version 2, an OSI-approved open-source licence. When the software runs on infrastructure the operator controls, call data and recordings stay under that operator's control, which suits European organisations that want to reduce dependence on proprietary PBX platforms.

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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 October 12, 2026
Headquarters
RO (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Telephony & VoIP
Type
Product
Website
yate.ro ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Yate

The European alternatives to Yate 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 Yate

Yate is headquartered in RO 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 Yate scores best on data residency.

Yate 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 Yate 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 Yate?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Yate?

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

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

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

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