A modular, open-source business suite from Belgium covering CRM, accounting, inventory, HR, and more. Self-host the community edition or use Odoo Online.

Quick facts

Headquarters Grand-Rosiere, Belgium
Company Odoo S.A.
Founded 2005
Ownership VC-backed
Hosting 🇧🇪 Belgium
Infrastructure Own infrastructure
Data jurisdiction EU
Open source Partial
GDPR Compliant
Pricing Open-core · from Free
Free tier Yes
Platforms Web, iOS, Android, Self-hosted
Languages
ENFRNLDEESITPTPL
What people like

The Community edition covers CRM, accounting, inventory and more as genuinely free, self-hostable software, and modules snap together so you only run what you actually need.

Worth knowing

The free Community edition lacks some features that push businesses toward the paid Enterprise tier, and heavily customised deployments can get complex to maintain.

85 · Strongly European
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Why does it score 85?

Legal jurisdiction
EU member-state HQ
Why this score?

Incorporated in Grand-Rosière, Belgium – a full EU member state.

30/30
Ownership & control
VC-backed, no non-EU parent
Why this score?

Founder Fabien Pinckaers remains the largest shareholder with effective control, though outside investors including Sequoia and Alphabet's CapitalG hold minority stakes.

15/25
Data sovereignty
Own infrastructure
Why this score?

Odoo runs its own infrastructure in Belgium rather than a third-party cloud.

30/30
Accountability & trust
Partially open source + GDPR
Why this score?

The Community edition is open source (LGPL) and self-hostable, while the Enterprise edition stays proprietary, so it's only partially open source overall.

10/15
EuroPoints total
85/100
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What does it replace?

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