Notion is the incumbent, but Baserow offers a European alternative rooted in EU data laws and stronger digital sovereignty.
Incumbent Solution
Notion is a US-based productivity and knowledge management platform combining notes, wikis, and project management. Headquartered in San Francisco, it is venture-capital backed and widely used by startups and enterprise teams.
Notion ownership profileEU Challenger
Baserow is a Dutch open-source no-code database platform headquartered in Amsterdam. Self-hostable and fully EU-owned, it prevents vendor lock-in and is the leading European alternative to Airtable for relational database management.
Visit BaserowBaserow ownership profile| Metric | Notion | Baserow |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | San Francisco, US | Amsterdam, NL |
| Ownership | private | private |
| Tax Domicile | US | NL |
| Ultimate Parent | Notion Labs, Inc. | Baserow B.V. |
| Data Hosting | US | mixed |
| CLOUD Act Exposure | Yes ⚠️ | No ✓ |
| AI Trains on User Data | partial | no |
| GDPR | compliant | compliant |
| DSA Designation | na | na |
| Carbon Neutral | no | unknown |
| B Corp | No | No |
| Supply Chain | opaque | opaque |
| Repair / Recycling | No | No |
Last verified . Sources: Notion on Wikidata, Notion website, Baserow website, How we audit.
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