European alternatives to the US tools you use by default

Email, storage, hosting, CI/CD and more - the European-built services that do the same job, with where each one is hosted and what it costs.

17 tools across 14 categories · updated 2026-07-14

AI assistants & models CDN & edge CI/CD Cloud storage Email Git hosting Maps & geocoding Office & productivity Password managers Search engines Team communication VPS & cloud compute Web analytics Web hosting

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AI assistants & models

Chat assistants and LLM APIs instead of OpenAI ChatGPT or Anthropic.

European alternatives to OpenAI ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot

Mistral AI

Paris, France

bothProprietary + open-weight models

French AI lab; EU-hosted API, plus open-weight models you can self-host.

Free - Le Chat has a free tier.
Paid: Usage-based API pricing; paid Le Chat plans.

Assistant (Le Chat) and developer API (La Plateforme). Publishes open-weight models, so you are not locked into a hosted API.

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CDN & edge

Content delivery and edge caching instead of Cloudflare, Fastly or Akamai.

European alternatives to Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai

Bunny.net

Ljubljana, Slovenia

cloudProprietary

Slovenian company (BunnyWay d.o.o.); global edge network with EU regions.

Free - No free tier, but very low pay-as-you-go pricing.
Paid: CDN from $0.01/GB, with a $1/mo minimum.

Global CDN plus edge storage, optimizer and video delivery. Known for simple, transparent, low pricing.

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CI/CD

Build, test and deploy pipelines - the European engines you can run instead of the big US CI services. Where each one is hosted, and what it costs.

European alternatives to GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Travis CI, Jenkins

Semaphore

Novi Sad, Serbia

bothSource-available

Hosted cloud or self-managed; built by a Serbian company (Rendered Text).

Free - Free tier; Community/Enterprise Edition free for OSS and companies under $5M revenue (up to 50 users).
Paid: Startup (Hybrid) $9/user/mo · Scaleup $20/user/mo.

One of the faster hosted CI services; recently moved to a source-available model with a genuinely generous free enterprise tier.

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TeamCity

Prague, Czech Republic

bothProprietary (free Professional tier)

Fully self-hostable on your own infrastructure; cloud option also available. Built by JetBrains (EU).

Free - Professional (self-hosted) is free - 3 build agents, 100 build configurations.
Paid: Cloud from $45/committer/mo · Enterprise on-prem $2,399/yr.

Made by JetBrains (IntelliJ, Kotlin). Strong self-hosted story; the free Professional tier is plenty for small teams.

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Woodpecker CI

Community (FOSS)

self-hostedApache-2.0

Fully self-hosted - your data never leaves your own servers.

Free - Free and open source; no license cost.

Community fork of Drone (from before Drone changed its licence), Apache-2.0, server + agent run in under ~50 MB RAM. Actively maintained.

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Cloud storage

File sync and storage hosted in Europe instead of Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive.

European alternatives to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive

pCloud

Baar, Switzerland

cloudProprietary

Choose EU (Luxembourg) or US data region; Swiss company.

Free - Free - up to 10 GB.
Paid: Premium plans monthly/annual, plus one-off lifetime plans.

Client-side encryption available as an add-on (pCloud Crypto). Well-known for its pay-once lifetime storage plans.

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Nextcloud

Stuttgart, Germany

bothAGPL-3.0 (open source)

Self-host on servers you control, or managed "Nextcloud One" hosting in Germany (GDPR).

Free - Free - self-hosting the open-source server has no licence cost.
Paid: Enterprise support from ~€71/user/yr (100+ users); managed Nextcloud One for smaller teams.

Open-source platform: file sync and share, plus Nextcloud Office (documents), Talk (calls) and Calendar - a Google Workspace / Microsoft 365 replacement you can run yourself. Made by Nextcloud GmbH.

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Email

Private, EU/Swiss-hosted email instead of Gmail or Outlook.

European alternatives to Gmail, Outlook / Microsoft 365

Proton Mail

Geneva, Switzerland

cloudProprietary (open-source clients)

Servers in Switzerland; end-to-end encrypted, Swiss privacy law.

Free - Free - 1 GB, 1 address.
Paid: Mail Plus ~€3.99/mo (annual).

End-to-end encryption, open-source apps, part of a wider suite (Drive, Calendar, VPN, Pass).

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Git hosting

Hosted Git repositories, issues and code review instead of GitHub or GitLab.com - European-run forges where your code and its metadata stay in the EU, without ads, tracking or lock-in.

European alternatives to GitHub, GitLab.com

Codeberg

Berlin, Germany

cloudOpen source (Forgejo, GPLv3+)

Run by Codeberg e.V., a registered non-profit association based in Germany; servers hosted in the EU.

Free - Free for open-source projects; funded by donations, no paid tiers.

Non-profit, donation-funded Git hosting powered by Forgejo (a community soft-fork of Gitea). No tracking, no ads and no venture-capital pressure - it is governed by a registered German association rather than a company, which makes its long-term incentives very different from the big commercial forges. Includes issues, pull requests, a package registry and Forgejo Actions for CI.

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Maps & geocoding

Mapping, geocoding and routing APIs instead of Google Maps Platform.

European alternatives to Google Maps Platform, Mapbox

HERE

Amsterdam, Netherlands

cloudProprietary

European mapping company (HERE Global B.V.).

Free - Free developer tier with a monthly request allowance.
Paid: Usage-based pricing above the free tier.

Long-established location platform (maps, geocoding, routing, traffic). Owned by a European automotive consortium.

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Office & productivity

Document, spreadsheet and presentation suites instead of Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

European alternatives to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365

ONLYOFFICE

Riga, Latvia

bothAGPL-3.0 (open source)

Self-host on your own servers, or use their EU cloud.

Free - Free - Community/Personal edition; self-hosting is free.
Paid: Paid cloud and enterprise plans available.

Docs, sheets and slides with high fidelity for .docx/.xlsx/.pptx. Made by Ascensio System (Latvia); integrates with Nextcloud and others.

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Nextcloud

Stuttgart, Germany

bothAGPL-3.0 (open source)

Self-host on servers you control, or managed "Nextcloud One" hosting in Germany (GDPR).

Free - Free - self-hosting the open-source server has no licence cost.
Paid: Enterprise support from ~€71/user/yr (100+ users); managed Nextcloud One for smaller teams.

Open-source platform: file sync and share, plus Nextcloud Office (documents), Talk (calls) and Calendar - a Google Workspace / Microsoft 365 replacement you can run yourself. Made by Nextcloud GmbH.

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Password managers

Team and personal password managers instead of 1Password or LastPass.

European alternatives to 1Password, LastPass

Passbolt

Luxembourg

bothAGPL-3.0 (open source)

Self-host on your own infrastructure, or use their EU cloud.

Free - Community Edition is free and self-hostable.
Paid: Pro / cloud plans per user.

Open-source password manager built for teams, with CLI and API. Designed around end-to-end encryption and granular sharing.

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Search engines

Privacy-respecting web search instead of Google Search.

European alternatives to Google Search

Qwant

Paris, France

cloudProprietary

French search engine; no user tracking or ad profiling.

Free - Free.

French search engine that does not track users or build ad profiles, and is developing its own European search index.

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Team communication

Team chat and messaging instead of Slack or Microsoft Teams.

European alternatives to Slack, Microsoft Teams

Element

London, United Kingdom

bothApache-2.0 (open source)

Self-host the Matrix server anywhere, or use their hosted service.

Free - Free and open source when self-hosted.
Paid: Hosted / enterprise plans priced per use.

Built on the open Matrix protocol; federated and E2E-encrypted. Popular with governments and the public sector for data control.

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VPS & cloud compute

Virtual servers and cloud compute instead of AWS EC2, Google Cloud or DigitalOcean.

European alternatives to AWS EC2, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean

Hetzner

Gunzenhausen, Germany

cloudProprietary

Data centres in Germany and Finland (plus US regions if you choose).

Free - No free tier, but famously low prices.
Paid: Cloud VPS from roughly €4/mo.

Well-known for cheap, reliable VPS and dedicated servers, and also offers managed web hosting. EU data centres by default; simple pricing.

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Web analytics

Privacy-friendly, EU-hosted site analytics instead of Google Analytics.

European alternatives to Google Analytics

Plausible Analytics

Tallinn, Estonia

bothAGPL-3.0 (open source)

EU-hosted (servers in Germany); self-host option available.

Free - 30-day trial; free forever if you self-host.
Paid: Cloud from $9/mo (10k monthly pageviews).

Open source, no cookies, no personal data collection. Script is tiny; runs on EU infrastructure or your own server.

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Web hosting

Managed web and application hosting instead of GoDaddy or US shared hosts.

European alternatives to GoDaddy, Bluehost

Infomaniak

Geneva, Switzerland

cloudProprietary

Data stays in Switzerland; runs on its own green data centres.

Free - Free tiers on some products (e.g. kSuite / kDrive); paid hosting.
Paid: Web hosting plans from a few euros per month.

Independent Swiss provider (hosting, mail, kDrive storage, kSuite). Strong privacy and sustainability positioning.

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Hetzner

Gunzenhausen, Germany

cloudProprietary

Data centres in Germany and Finland (plus US regions if you choose).

Free - No free tier, but famously low prices.
Paid: Cloud VPS from roughly €4/mo.

Well-known for cheap, reliable VPS and dedicated servers, and also offers managed web hosting. EU data centres by default; simple pricing.

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