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Corbado: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Corbado is a passkey platform from Corbado GmbH in Munich. Its product Corbado Connect provides managed passkey components, rollout controls and login funnel analytics around an existing identity provider, and the website says passkeys can be self-managed or managed by Corbado. A second product, Corbado Observe, maps every login method into one process view. Integration is done with a single script tag, and the service targets identity, product and security teams that run customer logins.

The company is based in Munich and its imprint names PB Holding GmbH, also German, as parent, so no foreign owner applies. The privacy policy cites GDPR Article 28 but does not publish a data processing agreement or sub-processor list, and it names US-based providers for website building, email and analytics. The website does not state the AWS region used for customer data. The product is proprietary and not published as open source, so a European organisation should confirm the hosting region and sub-processors for the login service in its 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 12, 2026

Headquarters	DE (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	corbado.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Corbado

The European alternatives to Corbado 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

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Corbado

Corbado 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 Corbado scores best on data residency.

Corbado 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 Corbado 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 Corbado?

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

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

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

Corbado is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Corbado an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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