Cloud and hosting
European video hosting services
Embed video from European hosting providers
A video hosting service takes your uploads, encodes them into the formats and bitrates browsers need, stores them and serves them through a configurable player you embed on your site. Adaptive streaming adjusts quality to the viewer's connection. Compared with putting an MP4 on your own server, you get thumbnails, captions, analytics and delivery that holds up under load.
An embedded player is a third party script on your page, and each play sends viewer data to whoever hosts it. mave, alugha, Bunny Stream and Jet-Stream are European providers. If you need a European alternative for video hosting, check whether the player sets cookies before playback, because that is what decides whether it belongs behind your consent banner.
European options
| service | Country | Hosting | Open source | Free plan | Status |
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Services without verified European control
Kept here for transparency, but excluded from the European options and totals. How we classify services →
mave
Privacy friendly video hosting from the Netherlands
NetherlandsEU hostedFree plan Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
Videas
French video hosting on Videas-owned infrastructure
FranceEU hostedFree plan Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
alugha
Multilingual video hosting from Germany
GermanyEU hostedFree plan♻ Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
Bunny Stream
Video hosting with global CDN delivery
Slovenia Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
Bunny CDN
Global content delivery from a Slovenian operator
Slovenia Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
Jet-Stream
Video and streaming platform from the Netherlands
NetherlandsEU hosted♻ Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
