EU Sovereignty Score
Self-hosted / open sourceAI SecurityHeadquarters: GB

Alibi Detect: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Alibi Detect is a Python library for outlier, adversarial and drift detection. It offers online and offline detectors for tabular data, text, images and time series, with TensorFlow and PyTorch backends for drift detection. Machine-learning teams use it to notice when production data departs from training data. It is a library that you install and run in your own environment; there is no vendor-hosted service.

Alibi Detect is developed by Seldon, a company based in London in the United Kingdom, which is outside the EU. In January 2024 Seldon moved the project from Apache 2.0 to the Business Source License 1.1. The code is publicly readable, and the vendor describes it as source-available, but the licence is not an OSI-approved open-source licence. Under it, use is permitted for non-production purposes, and production use requires other terms agreed with Seldon. Because the library runs locally, your data is not sent to the vendor. For a European organisation the licence terms for production use deserve a check before adoption, as does the choice of fully open-source alternatives.

Sovereignty score
63 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-645
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 12, 2026
Headquarters
GB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in OTHER (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Type
Product
Website

How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Alibi Detect

The European alternatives to Alibi Detect come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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

19 European AI Security vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

Is Alibi Detect one of many dependencies?

Score your whole stack in about three minutes. Free, no account needed.

Why digital sovereignty matters with Alibi Detect

Alibi Detect is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Alibi Detect runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Alibi Detect is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Alibi Detect 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 Alibi Detect?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Alibi Detect include 2021.AI GRACE, CalypsoAI and Giskard. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Alibi Detect?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Alibi Detect include Giskard, Invariant Labs and Mistral Shieldstral. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Alibi Detect GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Alibi Detect is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 12, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

No public compliance evidence has been recorded for this vendor yet. Do you know its DPA or subprocessor list? Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Digital sovereignty in AI Security

AI Security: Security for AI/LLM systems — prompt-injection detection, AI red-teaming, agentic security posture management and AI governance guardrails. 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.

Also in this category

See all →
8 European alternatives to Alibi Detect — GDPR-compliant & EU-hosted · EU Sovereignty Score