Last updated: August 30, 2026
Europe has a lot to be proud of, and we are proud to be part of it. After years of building software and mindlessly subscribing to SaaS services, we are now taking a step back and evaluating our choices. DigiQuip AS is actively working to switch our SaaS subscriptions to European alternatives wherever possible. This is a work in progress, and we will update this page as we switch services.
| Category | Service | Country | Notes | Status |
|---|
| Collaboration Suite | kSuite by Infomaniak | Switzerland | Switched in Dec 2025. Replaced Microsoft 365, Mailchimp, Kagi and Slack | Switched |
| Documents/Office Suite | ONLYOffice | Open Source | Switched in Dec 2025. Replaced Microsoft Office | Switched |
| Newsletter | Newsletter by Infomaniak | Switzerland | Replaced Mailchimp, Jan 26th 2026 | Switched |
| CRM | AIFlow CRM | Norway | Happy customer since early 2025 | Switched |
| Error Tracking | BugSink | The Netherlands | Switched from Sentry, Feb 19th 2026 | Switched |
| AI web search | Linkup | France | Switched from OpenAI, Feb 28th 2026 | Switched |
| AI | Mistral | France | Switched from OpenAI, Feb 28th 2026. Text, images, voice, document OCR, and equipment conversation | Switched |
| Transactional Email | Sweego | France | Switched from Mailtrap, Apr 2026 | Switched |
| Video Hosting | Infomaniak VOD | Switzerland | New videos hosted since Apr 7th 2026 | Switched |
| Cloud Infrastructure | UpCloud | Norway | Main services migrated from DigitalOcean and Google Cloud, May 2026. Primary data centre: Stavanger, Norway | Switched |
| Translation | DeepL | Germany | Switched from Google Cloud Translate in Sånn suite, Jun 2026. Also used for VTT subtitle translation | Switched |
| Dubbing | ElevenLabs | UK (EU residency) | New vendor, May 2026. Dubbing API. EU data residency enforced | New |
| Transcription | Amberscript | The Netherlands | New vendor, Jun 2026. Video and audio transcription | New |
| Web Analytics | Plausible Analytics | EU | Happy customer since March 2025. Cookie-free and privacy-friendly | Keeping |
| Accounting | Tripletex | Norway | Happy customer since 2024 | Keeping |
| Freight management | Profrakt | Norway | Happy customer since 2024 | Keeping |
| Accounting | Cardboard | Norway | Happy customer since mid 2025 | Keeping |
| Video SDK | IMG.ly | Germany | Happy customer since Jan 2026 | Keeping |
| CI/CD | Semaphore | Serbia | Happy customer since 2022 | Keeping |
| VPN | Border0 | Canada | Happy customer since Aug 2025 | Keeping |
| SMS | ClickSend | Australia | Happy customer since 2024 | Keeping |
| Category | Service | Country | Notes | Status |
|---|
| Cloud App Hosting (legacy platform) | DigitalOcean | USA | Legacy platform remains on Frankfurt; decommissioning in progress | In progress |
| Video Hosting (existing videos) | DynTube | The Netherlands | Migrating existing videos to Infomaniak VOD | In progress |
| Category | Service | Country | Status |
|---|
| AI | Claude | USA | Evaluating |
| Project Management | Basecamp | USA | Evaluating |
| Code Editor | Cursor | USA | Evaluating |
| Authentication | Logto | USA | Evaluating |
| Social Media | Facebook | USA | Evaluating |
| Social Media | LinkedIn | USA | Evaluating |
| Version Control | GitHub | USA | Evaluating |
| Category | Old Service | Country | Replacement |
|---|
| VPN | UTunnel | USA | Replaced by Border0, Aug 2025 |
| Error Tracking | Sentry | USA | Replaced by BugSink, Feb 19th 2026 |
| Communication | Slack | USA | Replaced by Infomaniak, Dec 2025 |
| AI web search | OpenAI | USA | Replaced by Linkup, Feb 28th 2026 |
| AI Image Recognition | OpenAI | USA | Replaced by Mistral, Feb 28th 2026 |
| Collaboration Suite | Microsoft 365 | USA | Replaced by Infomaniak, Dec 2025 |
| Transactional Email | Mailtrap | USA | Replaced by Sweego, Apr 2026 |
| Transactional Email | SendGrid | USA | Replaced by Sweego, Jul 2026 |
| Widget Platform | Elfsight | Armenia | Removed, May 2026 |
| Cloud App Hosting | DigitalOcean | USA | Main services replaced by UpCloud, May 2026 |
| Cloud Storage | DigitalOcean | USA | Replaced by UpCloud, May 2026 |
| Cloud Database | DigitalOcean | USA | Replaced by UpCloud, May 2026 |
| Cloud Kubernetes | DigitalOcean | USA | Replaced by UpCloud, May 2026 |
| Storage | Google Storage | USA | Replaced by UpCloud, May 2026 |
| Container Orchestration | Google Kubernetes | USA | Replaced by UpCloud, May 2026 |
| Generic Cloud | Google Cloud Services | USA | Replaced by UpCloud, May 2026. Sånn migrated to UpCloud |
| Translation | Google Cloud Translate | USA | Replaced by DeepL in Sånn suite, Jun 2026 |
| Payment | Stripe | USA | Removed Jun 2026; replaced by EHF electronic invoicing |
We have cleaned out subscriptions we found to be redundant — saving money in the process.
| Category | Service | Country | Notes |
|---|
| Video Editor | Veed.io | UK | Subscription cancelled Jun 2026 — found redundant |
| Sketching | Excalidraw | Czech Republic | Subscription cancelled Jun 2026 — found redundant |
| CDN/DNS | Cloudflare | USA | Subscription cancelled Jun 2026 — now using free DNS hosting only, with no caching or tracking |
| SMS | Twilio | USA | Subscription cancelled Jul 2026 — SMS removed from our service offering |
| Date | Change |
|---|
| August 30, 2026 | Clarified Mistral use: not image recognition only, but text, voice, document OCR, and equipment conversation (same European vendor) |
| July 2, 2026 | Cancelled the SendGrid subscription (removed from “Evaluating alternatives”); replaced by Sweego for transactional email. Cancelled the Twilio subscription at the same time; SMS removed from our service offering |
| June 30, 2026 | Reorganised the “Already European” table: services switched from non-European alternatives now listed first, services we are keeping listed below. Added new section for subscriptions cancelled as redundant: Veed.io, Excalidraw, and Cloudflare (now free DNS only) |
| June 25, 2026 | Replaced Google Cloud Translate with DeepL for translation in the Sånn suite; added Amberscript (Netherlands) for video and audio transcription; updated ElevenLabs to dubbing only; removed Stripe (replaced by EHF electronic invoicing) |
| May 20, 2026 | UpCloud migration complete: main services (app hosting, storage, database, Kubernetes) moved from DigitalOcean and Google Cloud to UpCloud (Stavanger, Norway); Google Cloud no longer in use; Sånn migrated to UpCloud; DigitalOcean reduced to legacy platform (Frankfurt) only; added ElevenLabs (video transcription/dubbing, EU residency) and DeepL (subtitle translation, Germany) as new European vendors |
| May 10, 2026 | Switched from Mailtrap to Sweego for transactional email; removed Elfsight; merged “Friendly non-European” into the main keeping table; DynTube replaced by Infomaniak VOD Apr 7th 2026; container orchestration and generic cloud from Google set to in progress |
| March 3, 2026 | We have agreed to switch from DigitalOcean and Google Cloud Services to UpCloud for cloud app hosting, cloud storage, cloud database and cloud Kubernetes. Clarified the dates and pushed the final time for migrating to Infomaniak VOD to April 26th 2026 |
| February 28, 2026 | Separated our usage of OpenAI services. Switched from OpenAI to Linkup for AI web search and from OpenAI to Mistral for AI image recognition |
| February 19, 2026 | Switched from Sentry to BugSink |
| February 5, 2026 | Separated out the services from DigitalOcean. Recording our plan to go from Sentry to BugSink |
