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EU VETTED

SaaS made in Germany

In short

Germany has one of Europe's deepest benches of independent SaaS: Hetzner, IONOS and STACKIT in cloud infrastructure; Nextcloud, luckycloud and STRATO HiDrive in storage; Tuta, Mailbox.org and Posteo in private email; and Lexware in accounting. These are all companies headquartered in Germany, but origin is only one signal. Ownership, hosting region and CLOUD Act exposure are recorded separately on each listing, because a German company can still route data through a US sub-processor.

The products on this page are SaaS companies headquartered or incorporated in Germany. That origin matters for buyers who weigh German jurisdiction or a preference for German-owned vendors. But on EU Vetted, origin is deliberately kept separate from two other signals you should evaluate alongside it: where the service actually hosts data, and its exposure to the US CLOUD Act. A German company that routes data through a US CDN or managed-database layer can re-introduce exposure, so we record ownership, hosting region and CLOUD Act exposure as distinct fields on every listing. Hetzner, for instance, is German-owned and hosts in Germany (CLOUD Act exposure: None). The German catalog spans cloud infrastructure, storage, private email, accounting, CRM, email marketing, web analytics and sovereign AI, one of the broadest national selections in the directory.

Accounting

Cloud & hosting

Cookie consent

CRM

Docs & wikis

E-commerce

Email marketing

File sharing

Forms & surveys

Git hosting

Headless CMS

Helpdesk

HR & people

Password managers

Private email

Project management

Sovereign AI

Video conferencing

Web analytics

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Are German SaaS companies automatically hosted in Germany?
No. Company origin and hosting region are independent signals, which is why we record them separately. Many German vendors do host domestically: Hetzner hosts in Germany, for example. But a German-headquartered company can still place data with a non-German or US sub-processor, so check the hosting region and sub-processor list on each listing rather than inferring it from the company's location.
Does a German company mean no US CLOUD Act exposure?
Not by itself. CLOUD Act reach follows corporate control and the sub-processor chain, not just where the head office sits. A German-incorporated, German-controlled vendor with no US services in the data path has a structurally weaker exposure profile (Hetzner is recorded as CLOUD Act exposure: None), whereas a German firm with US ownership or a US CDN in the path can remain exposed. Each listing shows the CLOUD Act exposure we assessed.
Which categories have the strongest German options?
Cloud and hosting (Hetzner, IONOS, STACKIT), file storage (Nextcloud, luckycloud, STRATO HiDrive, Filen), private email (Tuta, Mailbox.org, Posteo), email marketing (CleverReach, rapidmail, Inxmail), and accounting (Lexware, sevdesk) are all well represented. Hetzner infrastructure starts from €4/month, which makes it a common reference point for German-hosted compute.