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YunoHost: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

YunoHost is an open-source server operating system that aims to make administering your own server as simple as possible. It installs on an ARM board such as a Raspberry Pi, an old computer or a virtual server. Through a web admin interface and a single sign-on portal, you install applications from a catalogue, for example for email, calendars and contacts, file sharing, websites and team chat. This lets small organisations, associations and individuals run their own services.

According to its website, YunoHost is developed and maintained by volunteers as a non-profit project. Donations are handled by the association Support Self-Hosting. The project names NLnet and the European Next Generation Internet programme among its funders, alongside sponsors that provide infrastructure. The core is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. Because you install YunoHost yourself, you decide where the data lives. YunoHost is listed in the French SILL, the government's list of recommended free software.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
EU (EU)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
No — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cloud PaaS
Type
Product
Website
yunohost.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to YunoHost

The European alternatives to YunoHost come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 YunoHost

YunoHost is headquartered in EU 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 YunoHost scores best on data residency.

YunoHost 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 YunoHost 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 YunoHost?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to YunoHost include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to YunoHost?

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

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

YunoHost is headquartered in EU (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes YunoHost 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 14, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud PaaS

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