European alternatives to Qualtrics

A large enterprise survey and experience-management platform used for market research and customer feedback. Powerful, but it's a publicly listed US company (majority owned by Silver Lake and CPP Investments after a 2023 take-private deal), so respondent data ultimately sits under US jurisdiction.

Company information about Qualtrics
Company
Qualtrics International Inc.
Headquarters
Provo, United States
Founded
2002
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Private equity
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Own infrastructure

Why people switch away from Qualtrics

Subject to US CLOUD ActPrivate-equity ownedProprietary softwareNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to Qualtrics

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Germany 100 · Certified European

LimeSurvey is open-source survey software from Hamburg, Germany, built as a free alternative to Qualtrics. Self-hosting gives unlimited surveys and responses, and the hosted Cloud plan keeps data in Germany or Finland.

Open-core · from Free (self-hosted) Free tier Open source Bootstrapped Own infrastructure EU

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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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