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The European alternative to Vimeo, YouTube, Wistia, Vidyard and Brightcove.
Whether you search for a European alternative to Vimeo, a GDPR-compliant replacement for YouTube or a digitally sovereign video platform, you arrive at the same question: who actually owns your videos, your viewers and your data? With the large American platforms the answer is: not you.
StreamZilla is the all-in-one video platform by Jet-Stream, from the team that put the first live stream on the web, with 32 years of experience. Your videos live on our own infrastructure under European law, without ads, without trackers, accessible to everyone and hosted on green energy. As a hosted account from €19 a month, or as a licence on your own servers.
StreamZilla compared
What StreamZilla does by default, and what established video hosting platforms do not, only partly, or only on request. Based on public documentation, November 2026.
| Criterion | StreamZilla | Vimeo | YouTube | Wistia | Vidyard | Brightcove |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European ownership, European lawVimeo and Brightcove have been owned by the Italian Bending Spoons since 2025, but the companies, their technology and their infrastructure remain American. | Yes | Partly | No | No | No | Partly |
| Company, technology and infrastructure in Europe | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Beyond the reach of the US CLOUD Act and FISA 702 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Self-hostable under licence, on your own infrastructure | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| GDPR without transfers to third countries | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| No advertising in or around your videos | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| No third-party trackers or cookies, by default | Yes | Partly | No | Partly | Partly | Partly |
| No algorithm recommending other people’s content | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Your player, your brand, your domain | Yes | Partly | No | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Player built to WCAG 2.2 AA, ready for the European Accessibility Act | Yes | Partly | Partly | Partly | Not published | Not published |
| Certified green hosting | Yes | Not published | Partly | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| No aggressive sales: transparent pricing, no demo wall, no silent price increases | Yes | Partly | Not published | Partly | Partly | No |
| Short, published chain: only two European sub-processors | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Automatic subtitles, transcripts and translation into 24 languages, in every plan | Yes | Partly | Partly | Partly | Partly | Partly |
| Your videos are never used to train AI | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Free export in open formats, no exit or egress fees | Yes | Partly | Partly | Not published | Not published | Not published |
- Yes, by default
- Partly, optional or paid plans only
- No
- Not published
Comparison based on public product information and terms of the named companies, September 2026. Brand names belong to their respective owners. Spotted an error? Let us know and we will correct it.
Who it is for
Government and public sector
Tenders demand sovereignty, GDPR and accessibility. StreamZilla meets all three without exception clauses.
Healthcare and education
Videos about patients, students and staff do not belong under foreign law. And everyone must be able to follow them, disability or not.
Business and video producers
Your brand, your player, your viewer data. No platform that treats your audience as a product or sends your customers to a competitor.
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Frequently asked questions
Is there a European alternative to Vimeo?
Yes. StreamZilla is a European video hosting platform by Jet-Stream Services B.V. in Groningen, the Netherlands. It runs under European law, in European hands, without American cloud infrastructure. You can take a hosted account or license StreamZilla and host it yourself.
Why is an American video platform a problem under the GDPR?
American companies and their European subsidiaries fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702. US authorities can compel access to data, even when it is stored in Europe. Transfers rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which, like its predecessors Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield, is being challenged in court. A platform under European law has no such dependency.
What is a digitally sovereign video platform?
A platform where ownership, law, infrastructure and data are all four located in Europe, and where you decide who sees your videos and viewer data. Sovereignty also means being able to leave: your videos, metadata and statistics are yours and exportable.
Does my video player have to comply with the European Accessibility Act?
Since 28 June 2025 the European Accessibility Act applies to digital services in the EU; public bodies have been covered by the Web Accessibility Directive for longer. Video is one of the hardest parts: player, captions, audio description and keyboard control. The StreamZilla player is built to WCAG 2.2 AA.
Is StreamZilla also an alternative to YouTube?
For organisations, yes. YouTube is free because your viewers are the product: advertising, profiling and recommendations to other people’s content. StreamZilla shows only your videos, on your site, without ads and without trackers. For consumer reach YouTube remains a distribution channel; for your own channel StreamZilla is the foundation.
Can I switch from Vimeo, YouTube or Wistia?
Yes. Your videos, metadata and subtitles are yours and come with you; you replace embeds with the StreamZilla player. We are building import features that bring videos and metadata over directly, and we guide beta participants through the move personally.
How does StreamZilla compare on features?
StreamZilla is all-in-one: hosting, transcoding up to 4K, a branded and accessible player, automatic subtitles, transcripts and translations in 24 languages, private and password-protected video, your own video portal, a video management system and privacy-friendly statistics. Live streaming, podcast hosting and support for your own ads are coming.
How does StreamZilla compare on compliance?
StreamZilla is a Dutch company with its own infrastructure in the Netherlands and only two European sub-processors. No transfers outside the EEA, no trackers, a player built to WCAG 2.2 AA, and compliance statements for the GDPR, AI Act, Data Act and NIS2 that customers can request. In our self-assessment against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework we reach SEAL-4 on seven of eight objectives.
What does StreamZilla cost?
Plans start at €19 a month. Transparent pricing per plan, with no sales call as a precondition and no silent increases at renewal. Free during the private beta.
Whatever you call it
A European alternative to Vimeo. Sovereign video hosting. A GDPR-compliant YouTube for organisations. An accessible video player that meets the European Accessibility Act. Different names for the same wish: your videos on infrastructure under European law, without ads or trackers, watchable by everyone. That is what StreamZilla is.
Private beta for organisations where compliance is a procurement requirement.