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Cleafy: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cleafy is a platform for online fraud management and prevention. Its Fraud xDR product links signals across sessions, users and channels to detect threats, and its Nyx service provides AI-driven investigation of fraud cases. The product is delivered as SaaS, with the terms published on the website. The software is not open source.

Cleafy S.p.A. is based in Milan, Italy, and was founded in 2014, according to its website. The website names United Ventures as an investor, with an investment in 2023; no majority owner is named. As an Italian company it falls under EU and Italian law. The website shows GDPR, ISO and SOC certification badges and links to a trust centre, but it does not name a hosting region or cloud provider for customer data. European organisations should record those details in the contract.

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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 11, 2026
HeadquartersIT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCybersecurity
TypeProduct
Websitecleafy.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cleafy

The European alternatives to Cleafy 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 Cleafy

Cleafy is headquartered in IT 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 Cleafy scores best on data residency.

Cleafy 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 Cleafy 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 Cleafy?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cleafy include Actalis, Advenica and Avira. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Cleafy?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Cleafy include CrowdSec. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Cleafy GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Cleafy is headquartered in IT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Cleafy 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 11, 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".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 11, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity: Threat detection, endpoint protection, SIEM, vulnerability management. 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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