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Cleverbase: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cleverbase offers digital identity and trust services for Dutch organisations and professionals. Its products cover qualified electronic signatures, signing in a professional role such as a notary, doctor or accountant, identity verification, secure login and document storage. It also connects to the European Digital Identity Wallet. Customers include real estate agents, accountants, HR departments and healthcare providers, who reach the services through integrations with existing software packages, developer documentation and a personal app for signing and identification.

Cleverbase is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands. According to its website, qualified certificates are issued through DigiTrust B.V., which the site describes as RvA-accredited. The website states that Cleverbase is a qualified trust service provider under eIDAS and cites an ISO 27001 certificate. It does not state where data is hosted. For a European organisation this is a Dutch provider within the EU trust framework, though customers should ask for data locations and processing terms in writing.

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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

Headquarters	NL (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
Category	Identity
Type	Product
Website	cleverbase.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cleverbase

The European alternatives to Cleverbase 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 Cleverbase

Cleverbase is headquartered in NL 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 Cleverbase scores best on data residency.

Cleverbase 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 Cleverbase 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 Cleverbase?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cleverbase 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 Cleverbase?

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

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

Cleverbase is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Cleverbase 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

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Compliance evidence

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