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European Alternatives to Bitbucket

Bitbucket is Atlassian's Git hosting platform, typically used alongside Jira. Atlassian is an Australian-US company; all Bitbucket Cloud data is stored on AWS in the US, creating the same CLOUD Act exposure as other Atlassian products.

1 EU alternative · avg. privacy score 90 · 1 free

Why switch from Bitbucket?

  • Data stored on AWS (US) — CLOUD Act applies to source code
  • Australian-US company — Five Eyes jurisdiction
  • Atlassian is phasing out Bitbucket in favour of GitHub Actions integrations
  • Free plan severely limited; team plans start at $3/user/month

1 European Alternative

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Heptapod

French community-maintained Mercurial/Git platform based on GitLab. GDPR-ready, EU-hosted.

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French community-maintained Mercurial/Git platform based on GitLab. GDPR-ready, EU-hosted.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Codeberg (Germany, non-profit) is the leading European Git hosting platform based on Forgejo. GitLab Community Edition can be self-hosted on EU infrastructure. Both provide Bitbucket-equivalent Git hosting with full EU data sovereignty.