European alternatives to Salesforce

The CRM giant that pioneered enterprise SaaS and now spans a sprawling cloud empire. A publicly-traded US company holding vast customer datasets under US jurisdiction.

Company information about Salesforce
Company
Salesforce, Inc.
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Founded
1999
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Publicly traded
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Own infrastructure

Why people switch away from Salesforce

Subject to US CLOUD ActProfit-driven (public markets)Proprietary softwareNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to Salesforce

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Top Pick

Norway 62 · Mostly European

Long-established Norwegian CRM for sales, marketing, and service, with data hosted in Europe. A European alternative to HubSpot and Salesforce.

Subscription · from €55/user/month Mixed infrastructure Part of Axcel EFTA
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Estonia 46 · Mixed Origins

Visual, pipeline-focused sales CRM founded in Tallinn with a large Estonian engineering base. Now majority-owned by US firm Vista Equity Partners.

Subscription · from €14/user/month Amazon AWS Part of Vista Equity Partners EU

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Start somewhere.

Switching everything overnight is not realistic. Start where it matters most: your email, your cloud storage, your business tools. Replace one thing at a time.

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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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