Keila
Email Marketing · Germany
Open-source email newsletter tool hosted in Germany and France.
What is Keila?
100% Open-Source Email Newsletters
Keila is a German open-source email newsletter tool that gives you full control over your email marketing. Hosted on European infrastructure in Germany and France, Keila offers a clean, simple interface for creating and sending newsletters without vendor lock-in.
Email Marketing Without Lock-In
Keila focuses on doing newsletters well:
- Clean editor. Write and format newsletters with an intuitive editor
- Subscriber management: Import, segment, and manage your mailing lists
- SMTP flexibility. Use any SMTP provider (Amazon SES, Mailgun, your own server)
- Self-hostable. Run Keila on your own infrastructure for complete data control
- API access. Integrate with your existing tools and workflows
True Data Sovereignty
As a fully open-source project, Keila can be self-hosted anywhere. The managed cloud version runs on servers in Germany and France, ensuring your subscriber data never leaves European jurisdiction.
Key Features
Pricing
Self-hosted
Popular- Unlimited contacts
- Unlimited emails
- Full data control
- Bring your own SMTP
Cloud
- 1,000 contacts
- Managed hosting
- Automatic updates
- EU servers
Ready to try Keila?
Free (self-hosted)
Pros & Cons
Replaces
Company and data
Who you are buying from, and where your data goes.
- Company based in
- Germany
- Ownership
- European-owned
- Data hosted
- In the EU
- Data processing agreement
- Published
Full privacy and compliance record (show)
GDPR Compliance Data
Verified from vendor documentation| GDPR Status | Partially Compliant |
| HQ Country | Germany |
| Ownership | European-owned |
| Foreign Disclosure Exposure | Not yet verified |
| Data Hosting Location | European Union“… , based in Germany, is a leading German data center operator.” |
| EU Servers Available | |
| Data Processing Agreement | View DPA |
| Sub-processor List | Not verified |
| Schrems II Risk | Medium Risk |
| SCCs in Place | |
| Last Verified | 5 August 2026 |
How we reached this
Open-source, hosted in Germany and France
Categories
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Questions about Keila
Is Keila GDPR compliant?
Partly. Keila meets some of the requirements, with caveats worth reading before you commit. Keila is a European company headquartered in Germany, data is hosted within the European Union, and a Data Processing Agreement is published. Every claim on this page links to the vendor's own documentation.
Where does Keila store data?
Keila states: "… , based in Germany, is a leading German data center operator.". Data is hosted within the European Union.
Does Keila offer a Data Processing Agreement (DPA)?
Yes. Keila publishes a DPA at https://www.keila.io/legal/gdpr-dpa/. A DPA is required under Article 28 GDPR whenever a provider processes personal data on your behalf.
What a DPA has to cover →Is Keila a European company?
Yes. Keila is headquartered in Germany and, as far as we can establish, European-owned.
Spotted something wrong?
Martech moves fast. Vendors change hosting regions, get acquired, publish a new DPA or rewrite their pricing, and they rarely announce it. We check what we publish and date every compliance review, but some of what you see here will be out of date before we catch it.
If you work at Keila and something on this page is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Readers, same invitation. Pointing us at the page that proves it gets it changed fastest.