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Zoho Survey: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Zoho Survey is an online tool for creating and managing surveys, quizzes, polls and feedback forms. It offers templates, a range of question types, conditional logic and multilingual surveys, and distribution by email, SMS, QR code, website embed or offline in the field. Results appear in real-time reports and dashboards, with support for NPS, CSAT and CES measurements and integrations with Zoho CRM and Zoho Desk. It is delivered as SaaS.

Zoho Survey is a product of Zoho Corporation, which is headquartered in Chennai, India, and is privately held; the company says it has never taken outside investment. Zoho stores customer data in data centres in regions including the US, the EU, India, Australia, Canada and Saudi Arabia; the data centre is selected automatically at sign-up based on the IP address. According to Zoho, data of EU accounts is in most cases stored and processed within the EU, although staff of the Indian entity may access it for support. A data processing addendum based on standard contractual clauses is available on request.

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Sovereignty score
42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (IN)
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
    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 11, 2026
Headquarters
IN (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
No — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Forms & Surveys
Type
Product
Website
zoho.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Zoho Survey

The European alternatives to Zoho Survey 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 Zoho Survey

Zoho Survey is headquartered in IN, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Zoho Survey hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. 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.

Zoho Survey 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 Zoho Survey 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 Zoho Survey?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Zoho Survey include 123FormBuilder, AidaForm and Askia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Zoho Survey?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Zoho Survey include CryptPad Forms. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Zoho Survey GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Zoho Survey is headquartered in IN (OTHER) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Forms & Surveys

Forms & Surveys: Online forms, surveys and feedback tools. 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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