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Bare.ID: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Bare.ID is a managed identity and access management platform built on Keycloak, the open-source identity core. It adds enterprise features and an administration interface and takes over operational and security responsibility for that core, including patches and version upgrades. Capabilities include single sign-on, multi-factor authentication with passkeys, identity lifecycle management and role- and policy-based access, with connections via SAML, OpenID Connect and SCIM. It can be delivered as SaaS, hybrid, self-hosted or fully on-premises.

Bare.ID GmbH is based in Wiesbaden, Germany, and grew out of the AOE Group. Development, operations and support take place in and from Germany. According to the vendor, all data is processed exclusively in German data centres certified under ISO 27001 and BSI C5, among others. The Keycloak core is open source, and Bare.ID states you can switch back to plain Keycloak at any time. For a European organisation this means an EU-based vendor with EU hosting.

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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
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
CategoryIdentity
TypeProduct
Websitebare.id ↗

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 Bare.ID

The European alternatives to Bare.ID come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Bare.ID

Bare.ID is headquartered in DE 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 Bare.ID scores best on data residency.

Bare.ID 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 Bare.ID 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 Bare.ID?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Bare.ID include Adnovum, Airlock and Auðkenni. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Bare.ID?

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

Is Bare.ID GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Bare.ID is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Bare.ID 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

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".

Security page / trust center
bare.id/blog/nis-2-compliance-als-chance

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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