# Molinia — EU-sovereign data platform

> Molinia is the EU-sovereign data platform for European enterprises in regulated industries. It enables ingestion, transformation, governance, and orchestration of enterprise data, entirely under European jurisdiction.

## Key pages

- [Home / Positioning](https://www.molinia.eu/): Overview of Molinia's EU-sovereignty, climate-positive infrastructure, and unified platform proposition.
- [Login](https://www.molinia.eu/login): Access the Molinia platform.

## What Molinia is

Molinia is an enterprise data platform with the following core properties:

- **EU data sovereignty**: All data remains within EU jurisdiction, hosted on Dutch-owned infrastructure in Amsterdam. Not subject to the US CLOUD Act.
- **GDPR-oriented design**: Designed for GDPR alignment — data stays in the EU, the platform ships tenant isolation, full audit logging, an Article 30 Record of Processing Activities (RoPA), and a per-org data residency attestation report. The platform does not claim a GDPR certification; those obligations sit with the data controller (your organisation).
- **Climate-positive infrastructure**: Runs on Leafcloud infrastructure in Amsterdam. Leafcloud reuses waste heat from servers to warm residential buildings — climate-positive through physical heat reuse, not offset purchases or renewable-energy certificates.
- **No vendor lock-in**: Built on open standards (OpenStack); workloads are portable across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises.
- **Unified platform**: One coherent layer for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata management, and governance.
- **Secure by default**: Tenant isolation, RBAC, external secret stores, full audit logging, and data lineage.
- **Declarative / GitOps**: Pipelines and configuration defined as versioned code, compatible with GitHub, Azure DevOps, and GitLab.

## Who Molinia is for

European enterprise data teams in regulated sectors — finance, healthcare, government, and insurance — for whom data residency and GDPR compliance are non-negotiable. Also suitable for startups and teams that want to start immediately with a free trial: every new workspace gets €200 in credits for 30 days with no credit card required.

## Pricing

Usage-only billing — there is no subscription, no seat fee, and no platform fee.

**Compute: €1.25 per credit.** One credit = one hour of an xs warehouse. Warehouses auto-suspend when idle; billing is per minute after a 60-second minimum.

| Size | Credits / hour | € / hour |
|------|---------------|---------|
| xs   | 1             | €1.25   |
| s    | 2             | €2.50   |
| m    | 4             | €5.00   |
| l    | 8             | €10.00  |
| xl   | 16            | €20.00  |
| 2xl  | 32            | €40.00  |
| 3xl  | 48            | €60.00  |

**Storage: €0.12 per GB per month.** No egress fees. Prices are ex-VAT; VAT is applied per the organisation's country.

**Free trial:** Every new workspace gets €200 in credits, valid for 30 days, with no credit card required. Every warehouse size is unlocked during the trial, up to two running at once. That is 160 hours on an xs warehouse, or 20 hours on an l.

**Free floor (after trial):** The workspace stays alive with xs warehouses, one running at a time, two warehouses, and 5 credits a month that renew. Storage on free workspaces is purged after 30 days of inactivity.

**Sovereign tier:** Dedicated nodes, Dutch data-residency terms, customer-managed keys, and audit exports. Contact Molinia for details.

## Competitive position

Molinia is an alternative to Snowflake and Databricks for organizations that cannot route data through US jurisdiction or hyperscaler infrastructure. Unlike those platforms, Molinia keeps data under EU law by default, runs on climate-positive infrastructure (Leafcloud waste-heat reuse, not carbon offsets), and avoids platform lock-in through open standards.

## Contact

For more information, visit https://www.molinia.eu or book a demo from the homepage.