Best European Alternatives to Amazon Alexa (2026)
Alexa listens for its wake word in your home and sends your voice requests to Amazon, a US company. Amazon has used voice recordings to improve its services, and in 2025 it stopped letting Echo owners keep their requests processed only on the device. Your smart home also stops working the way you expect whenever Amazon changes the rules or its cloud is down. European and open-source smart home systems can run inside your own home.
Replace Amazon Alexa with a private smart home system based in Europe. Compare Homey, all operated under European privacy law.
Homey Host it yourself
Open-source software you run on your own server, NAS or an always-on computer at home. Your data never leaves your hands and nobody can close your account, but you look after updates and backups yourself. Because you hold the data, these can be developed anywhere.
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