Online businesses rely on a number of third-party vendors that supply different kinds of services, from emails to storage and computing, analytics and more.
This document lists companies that offer different kinds of services. When selecting a vendor, the following criteria were evaluated in order of preference.
- They are based and/or incorporated in the EU. As Europeans we feel EU companies have much to offer in the digital space. US-based tech giants have already enough market share.
- They are privacy-friendly. We value privacy, and feel our vendors should as well.
- They offer EU-based hardware infrastructure. This is important to simplify GDPR compliance and feeds into the previous point.
- They provide high-quality services at competitive rates. Newborn businesses can't afford to burn a lot of cash on vendor subscriptions.
See https://european-alternatives.eu/ for more reasons to choose EU vendors.
In no particular order:
Kind: email provider
Link: https://mailbox.org
Country: Germany 🇪🇺
Features: email hosting, calendar hosting, groupware, video-meeting
Alternative to: Google Workspaces, Microsoft Office 365
Kind: cloud drive
Link: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
Country: Germany 🇪🇺
Features: cloud storage, collaboration platform
Alternative to: Google Drive, Google Docs, Dropbox
Kind: software development platform
Link: https://jetbrains.space
Country: Czech Republic 🇪🇺
Features: code repositories, instant chat, teams management, CI/CD, internal blog, project management boards, package registries
Alternative to: GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Trello, Google Workspace
Kind: web analytics
Link: https://plausible.io
Country: Estonia 🇪🇺
Features: analytics collection and reporting, campaign tracking
Alternative to: Google Analytics
Kind: content delivery network
Link: https://bunny.net
Country: Croatia 🇪🇺
Features: CDN, DNS management, caching
Alternative to: AWS, Fastly, Cloudflare
Kind: payment processor
Link: https://adyen.com
Country: Netherlands 🇪🇺
Features: payment processing API, royalty payout management, subscription management, risk evaluation
Alternative to: Stripe, Braintree
Kind: payment processor
Link: https://mollie.com
Country: Netherlands 🇪🇺
Features: payment processing API, subscription management, risk evaluation
Alternative to: Stripe, Braintree
Kind: cloud provider
Link: https://scaleway.com
Country: France 🇪🇺
Features: cloud computing, storage, networking
Alternative to: AWS, DigitalOcean, GCP, Azure
Kind: cloud provider
Link: https://hetzner.com
Country: Germany 🇪🇺
Features: cloud computing, storage, networking
Alternative to: AWS, DigitalOcean, GCP, Azure
Kind: service desk
Link: https://zammad.com
Country: Germany 🇪🇺
Features: helpdesk, knowledge base
Alternative to: Zendesk, Hubspot, Jira Service Desk
Kind: error tracking
Link: https://www.errordeck.com
Country: Sweden 🇪🇺
Features: error tracking and reporting
Alternative to: Sentry
Kind: email sender
Link: https://www.sendinblue.com
Country: France 🇪🇺
Features: email sender, email marketing
Alternative to: Mailgun, Mailchimp
Kind: captcha
Link: https://friendlycaptcha.com/
Country: Germany 🇪🇺
Features: captcha
Alternative to: Google reCAPTCHA
Kind: application monitoring
Link: https://betterstack.com/
Country: Czech Republic 🇪🇺
Features: log collection, uptime monitoring, status pages, on-call management
Alternative to: Grafana, Atlassian Statuspage, Pagerduty, AWS CloudWatch
Kind: design and prototyping tool
Link: https://penpot.app/
Country: Spain 🇪🇺
Features: UI and UX mockups, wireframing, interactive prototypes
Alternative to: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch