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The self-hosted Whistlelink alternative

Confida: Self-hosted whistleblowing portal for organizations in the scope of EU Directive 2019/1937 (50 or more workers, Article 8(3)): the 7-day acknowledgment and 3-month feedback clocks, tracked per report. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Whistlelink every month.

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Stop renting Whistlelink.

Rented Whistlelink EUR 79/month for 0-49 employees, then 99 (50-149), 149 (150-249), 199 (250-499), 299 (500-999); 1000+ is 'Contact us'. Invoiced annually. ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

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Confida

$119 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

2 months of Whistlelink costs what Confida costs once (it bills in EUR, so this is approximate).

Buy once

How we counted: EUR not USD. Scales to EUR 99/mo at 50-149 staff - the realistic tier for the orgs the EU Directive actually covers. On the stored figure: two rows treat the same situation oppositely — this row stores a monthly figure in cents for a euro price while the Pleo row stores none, and the currency guard keeps it off the calculator.

How Whistlelink pricing grows

Whistlelink's price scales in tiers by number of employees, from EUR 79/month up to a custom quote for 1000+ employees.

“Whistlelink’s pricing is based on the number of employees in your organisation. This ensures a fair and scalable solution, whether you’re a small team or a multinational group.”, their own page, read 2026-08-11

What Whistlelink does that we don't

Whistlelink offers a 30-day free trial with full feature access and no credit card required.

“Whistlelink provides a 30-day free trial with full access to all features of the system and no credit card required.”, their own page

Who should stay with Whistlelink

If you need several group companies managed in one account, stay with Whistlelink — Confida runs one organization per install. Handler sign-in through your own identity provider (OIDC) is included.

What Confida deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Whistlelink.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Whistlelink's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Confida vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Whistlelink.

What exactly is stored about a reporter?

A category, subject line, the details they typed, case status/dates, the message thread, and a hash of their chosen passphrase — no identity fields exist, and the passphrase hash is never exported.

Is it really anonymous?

At the application level, yes — no name, email, phone, or IP is collected or stored, and follow-up is by case code + passphrase only, kept as a one-way hash that's never shown or exported.

A reporter lost their case code or passphrase — can we recover it?

No — there's no account and no email, so there's no reset; that's the trade-off for storing no identity fields, and it's stated clearly on the "save these" screen.

Can the handler and reporter actually communicate?

Yes, via a two-way message thread on each case — the handler posts, the reporter reads and replies with their code and passphrase, still anonymous.

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Sources

Whistlelink: price checked 2026-09-03, source“0-49: '79' ... 50-149: '99' ... 150-249: '149' ... 250-499: '199' ... 500-999: '299' ... 1000+: 'Contact us' ... 'Subscriptions are invoiced annually at the beginning of your contract.'”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

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