Best European Customer Data Platform Software

Looking for a GDPR-compliant alternative to Twilio Segment, Tealium or mParticle? European customer data platforms unify customer profiles from multiple systems and make the result available for segmentation and activation — while keeping the profiles themselves under EU jurisdiction. This is one of the thinner categories on this site: after checking and rejecting several others we kept ten European vendors (eight in the EU and two in the UK), and we are saying that plainly rather than padding the list.

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10 European Customer Data Platform Tools

Zeotap

Berlin-based Composable CDP that runs natively inside Snowflake; identity resolution and activation, pricing is quote-only

#1 of 10 in this category
Germany Quote-only, no published tiers
Genuinely CDP-first: identity resolution, enrichment an...Available as a Snowflake Native App, running inside a c...Genuinely EU-based (Berlin) with EU (Germany) jurisdict...

mediarithmics

Paris-based CDP built for a cookieless world: real-time personalization and audience monetization, pricing is quote-only

#2 of 10 in this category
France Quote-only, no published tiers
Built cookieless-first rather than retrofittedCombines customer data unification with audience monet...Recent merger with Easyence extends into on-site persona...

Spotler Activate

Dutch ecommerce CDP, formerly Squeezely, now part of Spotler Group; pricing is quote-only, no free tier

#3 of 10 in this category
Netherlands Quote-only, no published tiers
Purpose-built for ecommerce: data unified into real-tim...Part of a larger Dutch marketing-technology groupGenuinely EU-based (Netherlands) with EU jurisdiction

Commanders Act

Paris-based CDP bundling server-side tag management and consent with customer data unification; pricing is quote-only

#4 of 10 in this category
France Quote-only, no published tiers
Server-side tag collection, consent and the CDP profile ...Real-Time CDP covers unification, segmentation and acti...Adloop acquisition (Oct 2023) adds ad-spend optimisation

Piwik PRO

Polish analytics suite with tag manager, CDP and consent manager, hosted only in the EU

#5 of 10 in this category
Poland Business from €36/month; 30-day trial
Analytics, tag manager, consent manager and a CDP modul...Only tool in this category with a published starting pr...EU-only data centres, no US transfers

Celebrus

UK tag-free behavioural data capture and identity resolution, deployable as a single-tenant private cloud

#6 of 10 in this category
United Kingdom Not published; demo and quote on request
Tag-free first-party data capture across web and appsIdentity graph and single customer view, also for anonymous visitorsSingle-tenant managed cloud on AWS, Azure or Google

Agillic

Danish marketing automation and customer data platform, listed on Nasdaq First North, with EU-only hosting and an annual ISAE 3000 audit

#7 of 10 in this category
Denmark Not published; contact sales or book a demo
Profile and event model with RFM-style aggregated propertiesSegment entry and exit triggers feeding automated journeysEU data centres with an annual Deloitte ISAE 3000 Type 2 report

Ometria

London customer data and experience platform built for retail, with identity resolution and cross-channel orchestration

#8 of 10 in this category
United Kingdom Not published; demo on request
Retail-specific customer data platform with identity resolutionPredictive segmentation and Architect AI agentsEmail, SMS, push, ads, direct mail and in-store activation

Voyado

Swedish retail customer engagement suite with CRM, loyalty and product discovery, positioned by Voyado as a CDP option

#9 of 10 in this category
Sweden Fixed platform fee plus volume-based usage fee; amounts not published
Unified customer profiles with consent and data-quality controlsEmail, SMS and RCS campaigns plus loyalty programmesSite search, recommendations and retail media modules

Custobar

Finnish retail CDP and marketing automation with a published entry price and data centres in Finland and Germany

#10 of 10 in this category
Finland Small plan from €548/month (up to 300,000 contacts, 20,000 contacts included); larger plans on request
Customer 360 view, segmentation and data managementEmail, SMS, push, product recommendations and ad audiencesShopify, Shopware, Magento and WooCommerce connectors

Key takeaways

  • Zeotap ranks #1 among European customer data platforms because it is the most CDP-first product here, and because it can run as a Snowflake Native App inside the customer's own warehouse rather than as a second vendor-hosted profile store.
  • Only three of the ten tools are CDP-first companies (Zeotap, mediarithmics, Spotler Activate). Celebrus is a data capture and identity layer; Agillic, Ometria, Voyado and Custobar sell the CDP together with marketing automation or customer engagement in one product; Commanders Act and Piwik PRO sell it as a module of a tag-management, consent or analytics suite.
  • Two tools publish a number: Piwik PRO (Business from €36/month, 30-day free trial) and Custobar (Small plan from €548/month for up to 300,000 contacts). Voyado publishes how it prices (a fixed platform fee plus usage) without figures, and the other seven are quote-only.
  • Security evidence differs in kind: Agillic publishes an annual Deloitte ISAE 3000 Type 2 report and EU-only hosting, Ometria lists ISO 27001 and 27701 among its credentials, Custobar states a third-party GDPR audit and data centres in Finland and Germany, and Celebrus says it tests to ISO 27001 standards without naming a certificate.
  • Two tools sit in the United Kingdom, which is covered by an EU adequacy decision rather than EU establishment: Celebrus (which also lists a US subsidiary, Celebrus Technologies Inc., on its own about page) and Ometria. The other eight are EU-established, in Germany, France (two), the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
  • Bloomreach is deliberately excluded because its operating company is US-incorporated, and Occtoo and Contentsquare are European but are not customer data platforms.

A customer data platform collects customer data from web, app, store and CRM, resolves it into one profile per person and makes that profile available for segmentation and activation.

The profile store is the real product, and where it is hosted and who contracts for it decides which legal regime governs your customer data. Eight of the ten tools on this page are headquartered in the EU and two, Celebrus and Ometria, in the United Kingdom, so the vendor, the contract and (where stated) the hosting sit under European law, unlike Twilio Segment, Tealium or Salesforce Data Cloud.

European customer data platform software compared

European customer data platform software tools compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolEstablishedEntry priceBest for
#1 Zeotap Germany Quote-only, no published tiers Teams that already run Snowflake and want the CDP in their warehouse
#2 mediarithmics France Quote-only, no published tiers Publishers and brands planning for a cookieless future
#3 Spotler Activate Netherlands Quote-only, no published tiers Dutch ecommerce teams wanting one vendor for CDP and email
#4 Commanders Act France Quote-only, no published tiers Teams wanting consent, server-side tagging and the CDP from one vendor
#5 Piwik PRO Poland Business from €36/month with a capped Data Activation allowance (300 profiles/month); Enterprise from €366/month; higher tiers quoted Organisations wanting analytics, consent and a CDP module with published pricing
#6 Celebrus United Kingdom Not published; demo and quote on request Enterprises needing tag-free first-party data capture and identity resolution
#7 Agillic Denmark Not published; contact sales or book a demo Nordic and EU marketing teams wanting CDP plus automation with an audit trail
#8 Ometria United Kingdom Not published; demo on request Retail and ecommerce brands wanting a retail-specific CDP with activation
#9 Voyado Sweden Fixed platform fee plus volume-based usage fee for email, SMS and other channels; amounts not published Retailers wanting CRM, loyalty and product discovery from one Swedish vendor
#10 Custobar Finland Small plan from €548/month (up to 300,000 contacts; 20,000 contacts and a monthly email package included); Medium, Large and Enterprise on request Retail and ecommerce brands wanting a CDP with marketing automation and EU data centres

Every European customer data platform software tool reviewed

#1 Zeotap

Berlin, Germany Founded 2014 Quote-only, no published tiers No free tier or trial advertised

Best for: Teams that already run Snowflake and want the CDP in their warehouse

  • Operating company. zeotap GmbH (HRB 158127 B, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant; deployable as a Snowflake Native App inside the customer's own Snowflake instance
  • Independent checks. No independently confirmed third-party certification
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Twilio Segment, Tealium, mParticle

Zeotap (zeotap GmbH, entered in the commercial register as HRB 158127 B at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin, founded in 2014) is the most CDP-first product in this category. Identity resolution, audience enrichment and cross-channel activation are the whole company, not a module inside a broader suite of tag management, consent or analytics, which is how several other vendors on this page are built.

Its most distinctive move is architectural. The Composable CDP is available as a Snowflake Native App, so the CDP logic can run directly inside a customer's own warehouse rather than requiring customer data to be copied into a separate vendor-hosted profile store.

That matters most to a data team that has already invested in modelling customer tables in a warehouse and does not want a second system of record. Zeotap's public materials cite G2 High Performer recognition in the Enterprise CDP category for 2026 and a Google Cloud Partner designation.

The trade-off is transparency. Zeotap publishes no pricing anywhere on its site and advertises no trial, so a buyer cannot size a deployment without a sales conversation.

The company also went through a restructuring in 2025, with a June spin-off of a separate entity, zeotap Data GmbH, and a September change of chief executive, which is worth asking about directly during procurement. A small team that wants to self-serve a plan and see a number first will find this the least approachable of the specialists.

What Zeotap does well

  • CDP-first: identity resolution, enrichment and activation are the whole product
  • Available as a Snowflake Native App, running inside the customer's own warehouse
  • Registered in Berlin under a verifiable commercial register number
  • Positioned against Twilio Segment, Tealium and mParticle rather than a narrow niche

Where Zeotap falls short

  • No published pricing anywhere on the site
  • No free trial or free tier advertised
  • June 2025 spin-off and September 2025 CEO change to ask about
  • Warehouse-native design suits teams with data engineering capacity more than marketing-only teams

Standout feature. The only tool here that can run as a Snowflake Native App, keeping the CDP inside the customer's own warehouse.

#2 mediarithmics

Paris, France Quote-only, no published tiers No free tier or trial advertised

Best for: Publishers and brands planning for a cookieless future

  • Operating company. mediarithmics
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant
  • Independent checks. No independently confirmed third-party certification
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Twilio Segment, Tealium, mParticle

mediarithmics is a Paris-registered customer data platform, with its address given as 3 rue d'Edimbourg, 75008 Paris. It is built around real-time personalization and cookieless audience monetization from the outset, rather than being a cookie-era product that gained a cookieless mode later, and that origin is its clearest difference from the older US platforms it is positioned against, such as Twilio Segment, Tealium and mParticle.

The pitch is to unify first-party customer data, build segments from it and activate those segments across channels, and, distinctively, to monetize audience data directly rather than only using it internally. That monetization angle suits publishers and consumer brands with large first-party audiences. The company has recently merged with Easyence, a personalization and on-site search vendor, which extends the product from the back-end data layer into on-site experience as well.

Like most of this category, mediarithmics does not publish pricing anywhere and advertises no free trial, so every deployment is scoped through a sales conversation. It is a smaller and less internationally recognised brand than the US incumbents, and the Easyence merger makes the near-term roadmap harder to read from outside. A buyer should ask what has been combined, on what timeline, and which parts of the earlier product line are being retired.

What mediarithmics does well

  • Built cookieless-first rather than retrofitted
  • Combines data unification with audience monetization
  • Easyence merger adds on-site personalization and search
  • Paris-registered with EU (France) jurisdiction

Where mediarithmics falls short

  • No published pricing anywhere
  • No free trial or free tier advertised
  • Smaller international brand recognition than the US incumbents
  • Easyence merger leaves the near-term roadmap harder to assess

Standout feature. Audience monetization built into a CDP designed around a world without third-party cookies.

#3 Spotler Activate

Netherlands Quote-only, no published tiers No free tier stated

Best for: Dutch ecommerce teams wanting one vendor for CDP and email

  • Operating company. Spotler Group
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant
  • Independent checks. No independently confirmed third-party certification
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Twilio Segment, Bloomreach, BlueConic

Spotler Activate is the current name for what was, until recently, sold as a standalone product called Squeezely: an ecommerce-focused customer data platform that unifies customer and behavioural data into segments and real-time triggers for personalization, email and advertising. The Squeezely brand has been retired and the product folded into Spotler Group, a Dutch marketing-technology group whose other products cover email marketing and marketing automation.

For a buyer the practical effect of the rename is twofold. The product itself continues largely unchanged, so any research, reviews or case studies published under the Squeezely name describe the same underlying product now sold as Spotler Activate. And a buyer already using or considering another Spotler product gets the option of a single Dutch vendor across CDP, email and automation, rather than three separate contracts and three separate data-processing agreements to manage.

Pricing is not published and no free tier is advertised; the vendor routes every enquiry to a demo or quote request. The founding year is not stated by the vendor under the Spotler name. This pattern, a smaller focused CDP absorbed into a larger regional marketing-technology group and renamed, is worth probing in procurement: ask how much of the original roadmap and support team survived the transition and where the product sits in the group's plans.

What Spotler Activate does well

  • Purpose-built for ecommerce: unified data into segments and real-time triggers
  • Part of a larger Dutch marketing-technology group with email and automation products
  • EU (Netherlands) jurisdiction
  • The datatrics.com domain now redirects to a Spotler Activate page, pointing to further consolidation inside the group

Where Spotler Activate falls short

  • Rename from Squeezely makes older reviews unreliable
  • No published pricing or free tier
  • Founding year not stated by the vendor
  • Product-independence question that any recently acquired vendor raises

Standout feature. One Dutch vendor for ecommerce CDP, email and automation after the Squeezely rename.

#4 Commanders Act

Paris, France Quote-only, no published tiers No free tier or trial advertised

Best for: Teams wanting consent, server-side tagging and the CDP from one vendor

  • Operating company. Fjord Technologies, trading as Commanders Act (SIREN 527 730 782)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. GDPR-compliant; EU-hosted
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Twilio Segment, Tealium, mParticle

Commanders Act is the trading name of Fjord Technologies, a Paris-registered company (SIREN 527 730 782) that built its customer data platform outward from a server-side tag management business rather than starting from a blank profile store.

That history shapes the product: collection happens through the company's own Enterprise Tag Manager, consent state from its consent management layer travels with the data by default, and the Real-Time CDP sits on top to unify the resulting customer profile and push segments to activation channels.

In October 2023 the company also acquired Adloop, an ad-optimisation product, adding a third line to what is now a three-part suite rather than a CDP sold on its own. For a European marketing or data team the pitch is consolidation: one French vendor, one contract, and no seam between the consent banner and what the tag actually sends, which is a gap where compliance failures in multi-vendor stacks commonly hide.

The company does not publish pricing anywhere on its site, every plan is scoped through a sales conversation, and no free trial is advertised. Judged purely as a CDP, Commanders Act is less of a specialist than Zeotap or mediarithmics, because the customer-data layer is one of three product lines rather than the whole company. For a buyer who already wants server-side tagging and consent management from the same vendor, that breadth is the point rather than a distraction.

What Commanders Act does well

  • Server-side tag collection, consent and CDP from one vendor
  • EU hosting stated
  • Real-Time CDP covers unification, segmentation and cross-channel activation
  • Adloop acquisition adds ad-spend optimisation without another vendor

Where Commanders Act falls short

  • No published pricing anywhere
  • No free trial advertised
  • CDP is one of three product lines, not a specialism
  • Founding year not stated by the vendor

Standout feature. Consent state, server-side tag collection and the CDP profile sit with one French vendor.

#5 Piwik PRO

Wroclaw, Poland Founded 2013 Business from €36/month with a capped Data Activation allowance (300 profiles/month); Enterprise from €366/month; higher tiers quoted 30-day free trial, no credit card required; no permanent free tier for the CDP module

Best for: Organisations wanting analytics, consent and a CDP module with published pricing

  • Operating company. Piwik PRO S.A.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Poland)
  • Where the data sits. EU-only data centres, no US transfers for EU customers
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Twilio Segment, Tealium, mParticle

Piwik PRO (Piwik PRO S.A., Wroclaw, founded in 2013) is the least CDP-first tool in this category and the most transparent on price. Its customer data platform capability is sold as one of four modules, branded Data Activation, alongside analytics, a tag manager and a consent manager, rather than marketed as a standalone CDP. It is reviewed in more depth on this site as a web analytics tool, which is its primary listing.

It is the only tool here with a published starting price. The Business plan runs from €36 per month and includes a capped Data Activation allowance of 300 profiles per month, with Enterprise tiers from €366 per month and higher tiers quoted. A 30-day free trial is available with no credit card required, though there is no permanent free tier covering the CDP module itself, so a buyer with a large profile base needs to work out which tier applies.

Data is held in EU-only data centres with no US transfers for EU-hosted customers, which is why its customers skew towards public administration, healthcare and finance, where that is a procurement requirement rather than a preference.

The trade-off against the CDP-first specialists is depth: the CDP is one module in a four-part suite and its profile allowance is capped even on paid tiers. For analytics, consent and a CDP from one EU vendor with published pricing, it is the most accessible entry point.

What Piwik PRO does well

  • Only tool in this category with a published starting price
  • 30-day free trial, no credit card required
  • EU-only data centres, no US transfers for EU customers
  • Analytics, tag manager, consent manager and CDP from one EU vendor

Where Piwik PRO falls short

  • CDP is one module in a four-part suite, not a specialism
  • Data Activation profile allowance is capped even on paid tiers
  • No permanent free tier for the CDP module
  • Higher tiers are quote-only

Standout feature. The only published CDP entry price in the category, with a 30-day trial and EU-only data centres.

#6 Celebrus

Sunbury-on-Thames, United Kingdom Founded 1999 Not published; demo and quote on request Not stated by the vendor; demo on request

Best for: Enterprises needing tag-free first-party data capture and identity resolution

  • Operating company. Celebrus Technologies plc (Companies House 01892751)
  • Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Celebrus Cloud is a single-tenant virtual private cloud; AWS, Azure and Google deployment options stated
  • Independent checks. Penetration testing to ISO 27001 standards stated; no ISO certificate named on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Adobe Real-Time CDP, Amperity, mParticle

Celebrus is the product of Celebrus Technologies plc (Companies House 01892751, registered office in Sunbury-on-Thames), a company quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and, according to its own about page, founded in 1999. It sells a digital data and identity platform that captures behavioural data from web and mobile channels without tags, resolves identity in real time and exposes the result through an API and batch connectors to warehouses and analytics platforms.

It describes itself as an AI customer data platform, and its own site compares it against Adobe, Amperity and mParticle, but its centre of gravity is the capture and identity layer rather than segmentation and campaign tooling. The same data model also feeds Celebrus Fraud, with behavioural biometrics, and Celebrus Analytics, so it is a data platform with several uses rather than a marketer-facing tool. Its anonymized collection mode captures data when visitors opt out of cookies.

Celebrus Cloud is a fully managed single-tenant virtual private cloud, with deployment options on AWS, Azure and Google, and the vendor says it tests to ISO 27001 standards without naming a certificate. No price is published and no self-serve trial is stated. The company lists a US subsidiary, Celebrus Technologies Inc. in North Carolina, alongside its UK parent, and as a UK company it is covered by the EU adequacy decision rather than being established in the EU.

What Celebrus does well

  • Tag-free capture of first-party behavioural data, including from anonymous visitors
  • Identity graph and single customer view feeding CDP, analytics and fraud use cases
  • Single-tenant private cloud option on AWS, Azure or Google
  • Vendor-neutral integration through API and batch connectors

Where Celebrus falls short

  • No published pricing and no self-serve trial
  • Marketer-facing segmentation and campaign tooling is thinner than in the engagement platforms
  • UK parent, so EU adequacy rather than EU establishment
  • Lists a US subsidiary for its American business

Standout feature. Captures complete first-party behavioural data without tags and resolves identity in real time.

#7 Agillic

Copenhagen, Denmark Founded 1999 Not published; contact sales or book a demo Not stated by the vendor; demo on request

Best for: Nordic and EU marketing teams wanting CDP plus automation with an audit trail

  • Operating company. Agillic A/S (CVR 25063864)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Denmark)
  • Where the data sits. All data hosted in EU data centres; EU-based processing only
  • Independent checks. Annual ISAE 3000 Type 2 audit by Deloitte; ISMS based on ISO/IEC 27001:2022 controls, data centres conform to ISO 27001; no ISO 27001 certificate for Agillic itself stated
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Twilio Segment, Tealium, Bloomreach

Agillic A/S (CVR 25063864, Copenhagen) describes itself as a Nordic marketing automation and customer data platform. According to its own about page it was founded in 1999 and has been listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Denmark since 2018, which makes it one of the few vendors on this page with public financial reporting. Its named customers on the homepage are mostly Nordic, including retailers, a cultural institution and a football club.

The Agillic CDP can be used alone or as part of its marketing automation platform.

The model is built on profiles and events, with aggregated properties such as event counts, latest values, counts per topic and RFM scores, and a condition editor whose segment entry and exit triggers drive actions. Data comes in through API requests, custom endpoints that accept any incoming payload, and CSV imports, and goes out through prebuilt or low-code actions. The page does not explain how identities are matched.

On security, the vendor publishes an annual ISAE 3000 Type 2 report audited by Deloitte and states that production and customer data sit in Tier 3+ equivalent data centres inside the EU, with EU-based processing only. Its information security management system is based on ISO/IEC 27001:2022 controls and its data centres conform to ISO 27001; it does not claim an ISO certificate of its own. No price is published and the hosting provider is not named.

What Agillic does well

  • Annual Deloitte ISAE 3000 Type 2 report published on its own site
  • All data hosted in EU data centres, EU-based processing only
  • CDP usable alone or together with marketing automation
  • Listed company with public reporting

Where Agillic falls short

  • No published pricing and no self-serve trial
  • Hosting provider is not named
  • Identity matching method is not explained on the CDP page
  • Named customers on its homepage are mostly Nordic

Standout feature. A listed Danish vendor that publishes an annual Deloitte ISAE 3000 Type 2 audit alongside EU-only hosting.

#8 Ometria

London, United Kingdom Founded 2013 Not published; demo on request Not stated by the vendor; demo on request

Best for: Retail and ecommerce brands wanting a retail-specific CDP with activation

  • Operating company. Ometria Ltd (Companies House 08372083)
  • Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated by the vendor
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 listed among its security credentials; no certificate document published on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Klaviyo, Bloomreach, Twilio Segment

Ometria Ltd (Companies House 08372083, London, incorporated in 2013) calls its product a customer data and experience platform, built specifically for retail brands. The data layer ingests from ecommerce platforms, data warehouses and ERP, websites, mobile apps, POS, loyalty and customer support systems, consolidates customer profiles, resolves identity across email, mobile and cookie data, including for anonymous visitors, and keeps a single record of marketing consent across channels.

The experience layer sits on the same profiles: real-time audiences, a broadcast builder, a cross-channel journey builder and delivery through email, SMS, ads and retargeting, mobile push, direct mail, in-store and customer service, and loyalty. Its AI layer, Architect AI, adds predictive attributes such as forecast next-order timing and VIP potential. The vendor lists ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 among its security credentials and says it supports both GDPR and North American requirements such as CCPA.

The retail focus is the point and the limit: a B2B or non-retail team will find less that fits. No pricing is published, there is no pricing page, and no self-serve trial is stated.

The company says it has about 200 clients, 150 staff and more than 250 million customer profiles, figures it reports about itself, and has raised more than $70 million. As a UK company it is covered by the EU adequacy decision rather than being established in the EU.

What Ometria does well

  • Built specifically for retail, with ecommerce, POS and loyalty ingestion
  • Identity resolution including anonymous visitors, plus a single consent record
  • Activation across email, SMS, ads, push, direct mail and in-store on the same profiles
  • ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 listed among its security credentials

Where Ometria falls short

  • Retail-specific, so a weaker fit for B2B or non-retail teams
  • No published pricing and no self-serve trial
  • Hosting region not stated on the pages reviewed
  • UK company, so EU adequacy rather than EU establishment

Standout feature. A retail-specific CDP and cross-channel orchestration layer on one set of profiles, with identity resolution for anonymous visitors.

#9 Voyado

Stockholm, Sweden Founded 2005 Fixed platform fee plus volume-based usage fee for email, SMS and other channels; amounts not published Not stated by the vendor; demo on request

Best for: Retailers wanting CRM, loyalty and product discovery from one Swedish vendor

  • Operating company. Voyado AB (reg. no. 556787-0208)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Sweden)
  • Where the data sits. Main processing takes place within the EU; some sub-processors process outside the EU/EEA under stated transfer tools
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. SAP Emarsys, Twilio Segment, Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Voyado AB (reg. no. 556787-0208, Stockholm) was founded in 2005 in Norrköping and now has more than 400 employees in Sweden, with offices in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, according to its own about page. It sells what it calls an agentic CX suite for retail: customer engagement (CRM, email, SMS and RCS), loyalty, product discovery (site search, recommendations and merchandising) and retail media.

Voyado does not lead with the CDP label on its product pages, but its own knowledge hub pitches it against SAP Emarsys for omnichannel engagement and CDP use. The customer profile, consent capture and data-quality controls are what a retailer is buying, with in-store identification connecting purchases to the profile. It is deliberately retail-specific, and the vendor says it serves more than 500 retail brands across 100 markets.

Pricing has two parts, a fixed platform fee and a usage-based fee that scales with volume, with no amounts published. The agreement is governed by Swedish law. Main processing takes place within the EU, but some sub-processors process data outside the EU/EEA, in which case transfer tools such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses apply, as listed on its public sub-processor page.

What Voyado does well

  • CRM, loyalty, product discovery and retail media in one retail-focused suite
  • Swedish law and a verifiable Swedish organisation number
  • Consent capture and customer data quality controls built in
  • Published sub-processor list with transfer tools

Where Voyado falls short

  • Retail-specific, so a weaker fit outside retail
  • Not marketed as a standalone CDP, so less of a data-layer specialist
  • Pricing structure published without amounts
  • Some sub-processors process outside the EU/EEA under transfer tools

Standout feature. A Swedish retail suite where customer profile, loyalty and product discovery share one data layer.

#10 Custobar

Espoo, Finland Founded 2014 Small plan from €548/month (up to 300,000 contacts; 20,000 contacts and a monthly email package included); Medium, Large and Enterprise on request Not stated by the vendor; demo on request

Best for: Retail and ecommerce brands wanting a CDP with marketing automation and EU data centres

  • Operating company. Custobar Oy (Y-tunnus 2645106-1)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Finland)
  • Where the data sits. Data centres in Finland and Germany, within the EEA
  • Independent checks. GDPR compliance audited by a third party, as stated by the vendor; no ISO or SOC certificate named
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Bloomreach, Klaviyo

Custobar Oy (Y-tunnus 2645106-1, registered in Espoo, Finland, in 2014) describes itself as a retail-focused CDP and marketing automation platform. Its story starts in 2014 with a founder who had implemented Salesforce in a record store and found it lacked offline data collection and point-of-sale usability. The vendor says it now has 300+ customers in eleven countries, a figure it reports about itself.

The platform covers a customer 360 view, segmentation and data management, then activation through email, two-way SMS, push, on-site banners and pop-ups, AI product recommendations, Meta custom audiences and Google customer match. It lists more than 70 integrations including Shopware, Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce. Pricing is published: the Small plan starts at €548 per month, includes 20,000 contacts and an email package, and is the choice for up to 300,000 contacts.

Its terms are governed by Finnish law with arbitration in Helsinki, and its data centres are in Finland and Germany. On 31 August 2026 the listed Finnish group Ilkka Oyj acquired 100% of the company, according to Custobar's own blog, so the direction of the product now follows that group. A third party has audited its GDPR compliance, but no ISO certificate is named.

What Custobar does well

  • Published entry price and plan structure in euros
  • Data centres in Finland and Germany, Finnish-law contract
  • CDP and omnichannel marketing automation in one licence, with SMS and recommendations included
  • Strong ecommerce connector set for Shopware, Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce

Where Custobar falls short

  • Retail and ecommerce focus, so less fit for B2B or service companies
  • Higher plans are quote-only
  • No ISO or SOC certificate named on the pages reviewed
  • Recent acquisition by Ilkka Oyj changes ownership and roadmap context

Standout feature. A retail CDP with marketing automation in one licence, a published €548 per month entry plan and data centres in Finland and Germany.

Published pricing or a sales call?

Eight of the ten tools on this page do not publish a price for the CDP.

Piwik PRO is one exception: the Business plan starts at €36 per month with a capped Data Activation allowance of 300 profiles per month, Enterprise tiers start at €366 per month, and higher tiers are quoted. Custobar is the other: its Small plan starts at €548 per month, includes 20,000 contacts and monthly emails, and is the best choice for up to 300,000 contacts, with larger plans on request.

Voyado publishes a pricing structure rather than a number: a fixed platform fee plus a volume-based fee for email, SMS and other channels. Zeotap, mediarithmics, Spotler Activate, Commanders Act, Celebrus, Agillic and Ometria publish nothing at all and route every enquiry to a demo.

That is normal for the category globally, where even large US vendors move buyers to a sales conversation once volume exceeds an entry tier. The two published prices are not comparable with each other: Piwik PRO's figure buys a capped CDP allowance inside an analytics suite, while Custobar's buys a retail CDP with marketing automation channels, so budget for a scoping call before comparing any two of these tools.

What actually differs between these tools?

The first difference is how much of the product is the CDP. Zeotap, mediarithmics and Spotler Activate are CDP-first. Celebrus sits one layer below, capturing behavioural data without tags and resolving identity so that a CDP or analytics tool downstream receives complete data.

Agillic, Ometria, Voyado and Custobar bundle the profile store with the tool that uses it. Agillic pairs the CDP with marketing automation, Ometria and Custobar are built for retail and add activation across email, SMS and ads, and Voyado combines CRM, loyalty and product discovery for retailers. Commanders Act and Piwik PRO sell the CDP as a module of a consent and tag-management or analytics suite.

The second difference is where the data sits. Zeotap runs inside the customer's own Snowflake instance, Celebrus Cloud is a single-tenant private cloud, Agillic and Piwik PRO state EU-only hosting, Custobar states data centres in Finland and Germany, and Commanders Act states EU hosting.

Voyado publishes a sub-processor list that includes transfers outside the EU under transfer tools, which is honest but means the answer is not simply "all in the EU". mediarithmics is the one built around the end of third-party cookies and audience monetization.

Does company ownership matter for a CDP vendor?

It matters because the profile store holds the most complete record a company keeps of its own customers. A change of ownership that moves control outside Europe changes which court and which government access regime apply, whatever the hosting region says.

Bloomreach is the clearest case: it has European roots (Amsterdam, and Exponea in Slovakia), but its operating company is now incorporated in the United States, so it is not listed here.

Spotler Activate (formerly Squeezely) shows the other pattern, where a smaller Dutch CDP is absorbed into a larger regional group and renamed, and the datatrics.com domain now redirects to a Spotler Activate page. Custobar says on its own blog that the listed Finnish group Ilkka Oyj acquired 100% of it on 31 August 2026, a change that stays within Europe.

Zeotap went through a spin-off of zeotap Data GmbH in June 2025 and a chief executive change in September 2025. Celebrus is UK-listed on AIM and lists a US subsidiary for its American business, which does not change the UK parent but is worth a line in a data protection assessment.

How we selected and ranked these 10 tools

Every tool on this page is in the European Purpose directory, which means the operating company is established in Europe and we have verified that from the company register or the vendor's own legal notice rather than from a marketing page. Tools headquartered outside Europe are not eligible, however good they are.

  1. Feature verification (weight: 40%). We check each capability against the vendor's own documentation and product pages, and record what the tool does rather than what the category is assumed to include.
  2. Ease of adoption (weight: 30%). Integrations, published API access, trial availability and how much configuration stands between signing and a usable result.
  3. Value and transparency (weight: 30%). Published pricing counts in a vendor's favour; quote-only pricing is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated. We weigh what a buyer gets for the entry price, not the headline feature count.
  4. Editorial review. Every page is researched and drafted with AI assistance, and the compliance and pricing claims are checked against the vendor's documentation before it is published under the founder's editorial responsibility. The three weights above decide the order; a position is a ranking against the other European tools in this category, not an absolute score.

Vendor-reported outcomes — ROI figures, margin uplift, time saved — are labelled as vendor claims wherever they appear on this page. We have not audited them, and neither has anyone else who quotes them. Read our full editorial process for how pages are re-verified.

Frequently asked questions

Zeotap ranks #1 in this directory because it is the most CDP-first product on this page: identity resolution, enrichment and activation are the whole product, and it can run as a Snowflake Native App inside a customer's own warehouse.

The right answer still depends on the job: mediarithmics for planning around the end of third-party cookies, Spotler Activate for Dutch ecommerce teams, Celebrus for tag-free behavioural data capture, Agillic for a Nordic CDP with marketing automation and an ISAE 3000 audit, Ometria or Custobar for retail brands, Voyado for retailers who want CRM and loyalty in one place, and Commanders Act or Piwik PRO for consent and tagging bundled with the CDP.

All ten tools on this page are European alternatives to Twilio Segment, Tealium and mParticle, though they replace different parts of them. Zeotap, mediarithmics, Spotler Activate and Celebrus are closest to the data layer itself. Agillic, Ometria, Voyado and Custobar replace the CDP together with the marketing tool that uses it, and Commanders Act and Piwik PRO replace it as part of a tag-management and consent suite.

Mostly you do not find out without a sales call. Piwik PRO publishes Business from €36 per month including a capped Data Activation allowance, and Enterprise tiers from €366 per month. Custobar publishes a Small plan from €548 per month for up to 300,000 contacts. Voyado publishes a fixed-fee-plus-usage structure without amounts. Zeotap, mediarithmics, Spotler Activate, Commanders Act, Celebrus, Agillic and Ometria are quote-only.

Not a permanent free tier. Piwik PRO offers a 30-day free trial without a credit card rather than a free plan, and the other nine vendors advertise neither a free tier nor a self-serve trial on the pages reviewed. Every other route starts with a demo.

Zeotap, mediarithmics and Spotler Activate are CDP-first companies where the customer data platform is the whole product. Celebrus is a behavioural data capture and identity platform that also sells fraud and analytics products. Agillic, Ometria, Voyado and Custobar combine the CDP with activation tools in one platform, and Commanders Act and Piwik PRO sell it as one module in a broader suite.

Agillic says all data is hosted in EU data centres with EU-based processing only, Piwik PRO states EU-only data centres with no US transfers for EU customers, Custobar says its data centres are in Finland and Germany, and Commanders Act states EU hosting.

Zeotap can run inside the customer's own Snowflake instance, and Celebrus Cloud is a single-tenant virtual private cloud on AWS, Azure or Google. Voyado publishes a sub-processor list with locations. mediarithmics, Spotler Activate and Ometria do not name a hosting region on the pages we reviewed.

Agillic publishes an annual ISAE 3000 Type 2 report audited by Deloitte and says its information security management system is based on ISO/IEC 27001:2022 controls, without claiming an ISO certificate of its own. Ometria lists ISO 27001 and 27701 among its security credentials. Custobar says a third party has audited it for GDPR compliance, process and system. Celebrus states penetration testing to ISO 27001 standards. The other six name no third-party certification on the pages we reviewed.

Zeotap is the tool in this category available as a Snowflake Native App, meaning its identity resolution and activation logic can run inside a customer's own Snowflake instance rather than copying customer data into a separate vendor-hosted profile store. Celebrus offers a fully managed single-tenant private cloud, which keeps the data in a dedicated environment but is hosted by Celebrus.

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If you build a European customer data platform that belongs here, tell us about it. Every suggestion is checked against the same criteria as the tools above: genuine EU or EEA ownership, a product that actually unifies and activates customer profiles rather than just using the words “CDP”, and pricing we can verify. A listing is editorial, and we say so on this page where placement is paid.

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