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Akana (Perforce): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Akana is an API management platform from Perforce Software that covers the full API lifecycle. It combines an API gateway, a developer portal and marketplace, analytics, lifecycle governance and automated security policies such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. It handles REST, SOAP and GraphQL, offers a sandbox for open banking standards like PSD2 and, through Akana Sola, exposes mainframe functions as APIs. Perforce says it can be deployed across multiple clouds and on containerised platforms.

Akana began as SOA Software (Los Angeles, 2001) and was renamed in 2015. Rogue Wave Software acquired it in 2016, and Perforce acquired Rogue Wave in 2019. It is a US company with its headquarters listed in Minneapolis, and the software is proprietary. A European organisation therefore deals with a supplier under US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. The vendor's public pages name no hosting regions, so data location depends on where you deploy and on your contract.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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 September 21, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	API Management
Type	Product
Website	akana.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 Akana (Perforce)

The European alternatives to Akana (Perforce) 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 Akana (Perforce)

Akana (Perforce) is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Akana (Perforce) hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Akana (Perforce) 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 Akana (Perforce) 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 Akana (Perforce)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Akana (Perforce) include Alumio, Apideck and Axway. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Akana (Perforce)?

Our list of EU alternatives to Akana (Perforce) is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Akana (Perforce) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Akana (Perforce) is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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