EU alternatives for non-EU companies
European tools you can swap in for the usual American ones — built and run in Europe, with data residency you can point at. A starting point, not a verdict: every one of these is a choice, not a requirement.
Cloud storage
Your files on European infrastructure, under European law.
Nextcloud Germany
Files, calendar, contacts and office suite you can host yourself or with a European provider.
Internxt Spain
Encrypted cloud storage built in Valencia, with zero-knowledge design.
Koofr Slovenia
Straightforward privacy-friendly storage from Slovenia, with EU data centres.
Hosting
Servers, VMs and Kubernetes with data residency you actually control.
Hetzner Germany
Independent German hosting with data centres in Germany and Finland.
OVHcloud France
Europe's largest cloud provider, built and operated in EU data centres.
Scaleway France
French cloud with bare metal, serverless and GPU instances in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw.
Sliplane Germany
Managed container hosting out of Berlin: push to Git, get a live app on EU servers.
Cyso The Netherlands
The oldest independent hosting provider in the Netherlands, running its own OpenStack cloud and data centres since 1997.
Payment
Take money without routing every transaction through the US.
Adyen The Netherlands
Payments platform built in Amsterdam, used by Europe's biggest marketplaces.
Mollie The Netherlands
Developer-friendly payments from the Netherlands, popular with European SMEs.
Klarna Sweden
Swedish payments giant covering checkout, instalments and shopping.
Scraping
Web data extraction without the offshore proxy roulette.
Apify Czechia
Full-stack scraping and automation platform from Prague, with a huge actor marketplace.
ScrapingBee France
French scraping API that handles headless browsers and proxy rotation for you.
Oxylabs Lithuania
Lithuanian proxy and web-data platform used by data teams across Europe.
Email provider
Inboxes that are not an advertising business.
Proton Mail Switzerland
Encrypted mail from Geneva, with a free tier and apps for the whole family.
Tuta Germany
End-to-end encrypted mail and calendar from Hanover, open source and ad-free.
Posteo Germany
Ad-free mail run as an independent German company, powered by renewable energy.
Mailbox.org Germany
Mail, calendar, cloud and office tools for families and businesses, made in Berlin.
Search engine
Find things without your queries becoming someone else's product.
Qwant France
French search engine that does not build a profile of you to sell ads.
Ecosia Germany
Berlin search engine that plants trees with its ad revenue.
Startpage The Netherlands
Dutch metasearch that gives you Google results without the tracking.
AI
Models and AI tools trained and hosted in Europe.
Mistral AI France
Paris-based frontier lab behind the open-weight Mistral and Le Chat models.
Loes The Netherlands
Dutch AI chat from HostYourAI: runs on GPUs in EU data centres, and your conversations are never used for training.
DeepL Germany
Cologne-built translation and writing AI, famous for quality in European languages.
Aleph Alpha Germany
Heidelberg AI company building sovereign models for governments and enterprises.
App store
Get apps to users without the gatekeepers taking their cut.
Password manager
Keep the keys to everything on this side of the Atlantic.
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