European alternatives to Amplitude

A product-analytics platform for understanding user behaviour at scale. A publicly-traded US company on AWS, holding behavioural data outside GDPR.

Company information about Amplitude
Company
Amplitude, Inc.
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2012
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Publicly traded
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Amazon AWS

Why people switch away from Amplitude

Subject to US CLOUD ActProfit-driven (public markets)Proprietary softwareRuns on Big Tech infrastructureNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to Amplitude

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Netherlands 100 · Certified European

Dutch privacy-first analytics with no cookies, no fingerprinting and no IP logging. Data stays on Dutch servers. Used by 30,000+ websites including government organisations.

Paid · from €9/mo Partly open source Bootstrapped Own infrastructure EU
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Germany 95 · Certified European

German cookie-free analytics hosted entirely on Hetzner in Germany. Built by a two-person team in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, GDPR-compliant out of the box with no extra setup required.

Paid · from €6/mo Partly open source Bootstrapped Hetzner (Germany) EU
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New Zealand 72 · Mostly European

Open-source web analytics platform used on 1.4 million websites in 190 countries. Self-host for full data ownership or use Matomo Cloud. GDPR-compliant with no data sent to third parties.

Open-core · from Free Free tier Open source Bootstrapped Own infrastructure

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Why avoid United States-owned services?

CLOUD Act

Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.

FISA Section 702

Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.

GDPR vs US law conflict

EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.

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