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24Genetics: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

24Genetics is a Spanish company that sells consumer DNA tests. Customers receive a saliva kit at home and send it back. From a single sample the company can produce seven reports: ancestry, health, nutrigenetics, skin, talent and personality, sports, and pharmacogenetics. It also offers a microbiome test and AI assistants for areas such as nutrition, ancestry, skin and hair, and sports. Tests are shipped worldwide and are available in several languages. Everything is handled online: ordering, registering the kit and viewing the reports.

According to the company, all laboratory work and algorithmic processing take place in Europe under European regulations, and it does not trade customer data. Its European headquarters is in Madrid; it also lists a US office in Boston. It is not open source and has no self-hosted option. Genetic data is especially sensitive, so a European organisation or individual should ask exactly where data is stored and for how long.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 1, 2026
Headquarters
ES (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
GOOGLE - Google LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category
Personal Health & DNA
Type
Product
Website
24genetics.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to 24Genetics

The European alternatives to 24Genetics come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with 24Genetics

24Genetics is headquartered in ES and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so 24Genetics scores best on data residency.

24Genetics is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs 24Genetics together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to 24Genetics?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to 24Genetics include 7Mind, Aware and Blodkollen. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to 24Genetics?

Our list of EU alternatives to 24Genetics is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is 24Genetics GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

24Genetics is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes 24Genetics an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 1, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Personal Health & DNA: Blood testing, preventive health checks, telehealth and consumer DNA tests. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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